The Devil's Heart (Star Trek: The Next Generation) [ABRIDGED]

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Summary: go it, Picard!!
Review: Another brilliant story, deepening the character of Picard further, and exploring the personalities of the Enterprise crew. A book so good, i read it twice before turning to another book - and i have read it again since then....

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Summary: 2 Hearts Collide
Review: Captain Picard's artificial heart and a legendary heart of awesome power collide. Is there an attraction. The best defenses and wit of the Enterprise are called upon to safe the Alpha Quadrant from the mystical effects of this Devil's Heart

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Summary: WELL WRITTEN...BUT IT DRAGGED ON
Review: Carmen Carter's writing skills are exceptional and adds more literary value to Star Trek...than most of the numbered novels. It was interesting tracing the Heart through its history. However...at times...the novel was hard to follow. Therefore 4 stars.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY
Review: Devil's Heart, in my opinion, is clearly one of the best Star Trek novels written to date! Throughout the book, the reader is taken all over history in delightful and intriguing ways. The author truly captured Picard's spirit and his love for archaeology. This novel has everything a Star Trek fan is looking for in a book, action, intrigue, mythology and a little mystery. The author set's an extremely well thought out plot and put's it in place extraordinarily well. This is one of the few books that I've actually read a couple times. It is easy to immerse yourself in this story. In reference to the audio tape read by Gates McFadden, she truly brings the story alive. I've listened to it countless times on the highway. The only unfortunate thing about the audio tape is that it's abridged. If there's ever a Star Trek book to recommend to somebody, this is the one. If you've not read this one, pick it up in any format you can. Thank you very much to the author for this one.

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Summary: One of the best Star Trek novels to date!
Review: Devil's Heart, in my opinion, is clearly one of the best Star Trek novels written to date! Throughout the book, the reader is taken all over history in delightful and intriguing ways. The author truly captured Picard's spirit and his love for archaeology. This novel has everything a Star Trek fan is looking for in a book, action, intrigue, mythology and a little mystery. The author set's an extremely well thought out plot and put's it in place extraordinarily well. This is one of the few books that I've actually read a couple times. It is easy to immerse yourself in this story. In reference to the audio tape read by Gates McFadden, she truly brings the story alive. I've listened to it countless times on the highway. The only unfortunate thing about the audio tape is that it's abridged. If there's ever a Star Trek book to recommend to somebody, this is the one. If you've not read this one, pick it up in any format you can. Thank you very much to the author for this one.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY
Review: I have listened to many Star Trek books, and I have liked some more then others. This one was by far the worst. The plot line is overly simple, there is no development of characters(all are flat), and the writer clearly did no research into the Star Trek universe (the Romulans in this book used PHASERS!!!). A woman reads this book, but most of the characters are men, so it makes it hard to visualize Captain Picard giving orders on the bridge of the Enterprise in his deep commanding voice. No offence to women by that, but there are some things that women simply cannot do, and imitating Picard is one of them. To close, I will simply rephrase the main point of this paragraph: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I have read this book twice and even have it on tape. I never tire of reading or listening to it. It was well written save for a couple of minor details. Go out and buy it and let your imagination soar!

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Summary: A Forgettable Novel
Review: I read this book last week and I've already forgotten everything. Pretty interesting at times, but otherwise belongs to the long line of mundane Star Trek novels

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Summary: ST-TNG: The Devil's Heart
Review: Star Trek-The Next Generation: THe Devil's Heart written by Carmen Carter is a book when read carefully gives you an impression the "Lord of the Rings" but with a Star Trek twist.

I've read this book for a second time and realize that it was one of the books used for the "Gateways" series of books that has transended to whole of the Star Trek genre. As this book tells of a Gateway chamber in the prologue, and the demise of Iconia through a nova of its sun.

Yes, Iconia was dead, but her legacy will remain as the Federation and its resources are always finding relics that relate to the once glorious Iconian culture. This book uses one of those found relics as the basis for a story of mystery, intrigue, morality, bloodlust, and truth. Could the dispairy in technologies trigger an unsettling of other races, just by the knowledge of Iconian superiority, could it foster fear and distrust?

This book fills all of these themes as Jean-Luc Picard is going to go through a true test of his own morality as "The Devil's Heart" a left over icon of the Iconian culture, a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery, is found.

This book moves quickly and is extremely engrossing as the Devil's Heart enables its possessor to control minds and amass countless wealth and can control the passage of time as well.

Romulans, Ferengi, and Klingons bring a spice of the TREK universe to this book as our hero Jean-Luc Picard trys to deal with the power and consequenses that are the Devil's Heart gifts. I must say I really enjoyed this book and it lays a foundation to other TREK books that will follow.

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Summary: ST-TNG: The Devil's Heart
Review: Star Trek-The Next Generation: THe Devil's Heart written by Carmen Carter is a book when read carefully gives you an impression the "Lord of the Rings" but with a Star Trek twist.

I've read this book for a second time and realize that it was one of the books used for the "Gateways" series of books that has transended to whole of the Star Trek genre. As this book tells of a Gateway chamber in the prologue, and the demise of Iconia through a nova of its sun.

Yes, Iconia was dead, but her legacy will remain as the Federation and its resources are always finding relics that relate to the once glorious Iconian culture. This book uses one of those found relics as the basis for a story of mystery, intrigue, morality, bloodlust, and truth. Could the dispairy in technologies trigger an unsettling of other races, just by the knowledge of Iconian superiority, could it foster fear and distrust?

This book fills all of these themes as Jean-Luc Picard is going to go through a true test of his own morality as "The Devil's Heart" a left over icon of the Iconian culture, a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery, is found.

This book moves quickly and is extremely engrossing as the Devil's Heart enables its possessor to control minds and amass countless wealth and can control the passage of time as well.

Romulans, Ferengi, and Klingons bring a spice of the TREK universe to this book as our hero Jean-Luc Picard trys to deal with the power and consequenses that are the Devil's Heart gifts. I must say I really enjoyed this book and it lays a foundation to other TREK books that will follow.