A review by octavia_cade
Treaty's Law by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

adventurous fast-paced

3.0

Of the six novels in the Day of Honor series, I read this one last. Which may be completely backwards, as it's the first chronologically, being the story of when humans and Klingons worked together to defend the same planet, even though they're enemies. It was a Klingon farming planet, which was quite nice - I always enjoy stories where the Klingon characters do something other than war. The Empire's got to eat, after all. No great surprise that the farmers turn out to be decent soldiers when that's called for, and I liked that they interpreted their vocation as a war against weeds and disease and hunger, essentially. (It makes me wonder if there are any tie-in novels out there that focus on Klingon doctors or singers or some such. I'm sure that I remember Worf being a fan of Klingon opera.)

For a story that's basically one long battle - never my favourite type of story - it was still entertaining. The fast pace and character work helped; I especially liked the main farmer Kerdoch. I did the the end was rather too abrupt, though, with the conflict too easily solved. Not the best book in the series, but not the worst either.