A review by octavia_cade
Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox

adventurous medium-paced

2.0

I tried but I could not really get into this. There were aspects of it that I liked - the disarmament plot with Spock and Scotty especially - but it was saddled with a desperately unconvincing character that dragged down every scene she was in. Lenore Karidian, former insane murderer from the original series episode "The Conscience of the King" is brought back some decades later, having undergone treatment and with restored sanity. Supposedly, anyway, because she is deeply unconvinced of her own rehabilitation - which is quite tedious to read, but worse is the absolute hammering of Shakespeare that occurs whenever she's in a room. And yeah, Karidian is a Shakespearean actress, but does this single characteristic really have to be inserted into every other sentence she spouts?

As characterisation it comes across as very heavy-handed, and I was thoroughly sick of her by the end. I was actually hoping the angry mob would kill her, just to get her off the page, but no such luck.