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Summary: An excellent Star Trek book!
Review: Even though I grew up with Original Star Trek and still love it to this day, I have also come to respect and even love the many spin-offs. "Voyager" is definitely one of them and this book only cements my love for all things Star Trek as well as sci-fi and good space-opera: "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Puppet Masters", "2001", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Ringworld", all the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" books, "Advent of the Corps" and others.
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Summary: A Thrill
Review: People say all the time "I couldn't put it down" and one must wonder is the person saying this an avid fan, an avid reader of books in general, or is this truly someone who generally doesn't like books but loved this one? I am the latter. I like reading Star Trek books, but I often take upwards of a month or two to read one fully, simply because I don't necessairily like the process of reading and I always fall asleep on a book no matter how good it is. Homecoming, was one of three exceptions to that rule for me. I truly could not put that book down and finished it in two sittings. (The other exceptions were Farther Shore [the continuation of this book] and Echoes).As others have stated it picks up immediately after Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant. The story does start off a bit slow, but this slowness is necessary to build up their reactions to being back on Earth and seeing all their long lost loved ones, not to mention how they are going to fit back into society. And then there's the Doctor and Seven.... At anyrate it's a funny coincidence that you-know-what hits the fan just as Voyager returns to Earth and it all directly involves the Voyager crew. Christie Golden, however makes the occurrence very believable and even makes the reader question for a minute whether or not Voyager really is the cause of it all. Although I was disappointed by the lack of information about what happened to the Borg Collective after the events of Endgame, I still rate this and Farther Shore 5 stars.
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Summary: Welcome back, old friends
Review: Homecoming lives up to its name, picking up exactly where the Star Trek: Voyager series left off at the end of its final episode. Golden knows the characters and, assuming that her readers already know them as well, wastes no time describing them. Her tone for each character is well chosen, and I was able to hear the actors' voices in my head during each conversation. The plot moves along quickly and the only disappointment is that the crew is no longer on Voyager. This book is for fans of the series only. Others will be lost due to the lack of character development. Still, for those of us who feel that Voyager's return home has, ironically, made us lose contact with old friends, Homecoming is a pleasant reunion. Too bad the sequel doesn't deliver.
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Summary: Romance Novel/Soap Opera
Review: Cristie Golden proves her amaturish writing skills with this Voyager novel. Broken into two books (when in truth the text of both novels was "expanded" over 250+ pages which could have been compiled in one book)the story quickly bogs down with too much going on, yet not enough happening. The story starts out well enough, however, on top of the Voyager crew, Golden adds in a number of other characters, and even focuses far too much on her additional characters, pushing some of the Voyager crew off to the side. The story not only pushes and pulls the reader into multiple scenarios, there are too many breaks, and the story is so fragmented and chopped that most events become boring and uninspiring. Don't look for any excitement, as after putting Homecoming down, I felt like I had read my first romance novel. At the very least the book feels like a soap opera with the multiple characters and the constant discription of "handsome men", or "boring men" strewn about. Any of Golden's male creations of consequence just happen to be strikingly gorgeous and compassionate. We spend too much time learning about Libby Webber than seeing what Harry Kim, Tom Paris, or even Tuvok are doing. There is definetly an "Ally McBeal/Sex in the City" attitude with this dull creation of a character. Forget originality, Golden beats us over the head with more Borg and Holograms, something the series itself ran dry long ago. My personal advice; leave this one on the shelf, and let the series end where it did. This novel lacks creativity, and I'd even dare to say knowledge or understanding of much of the actual series.
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