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Summary: A good feeling of IDIC from the new master of Voyager Novels
Review:
Christie Golden can now be called the "Official Voyager Novelist" as most Voyager books coming out are under her moniker. This stood out as one of the better novels in the Gateways series, but the reason I did not give it a 5 star rating was that this book could have been a stand-alone novel. This book was about Voyager leading a fleet of miss-matched vessels through some hazards in the Delta Quadrant. As it was in the Gateways series, the tagline was: "Voyager leads a fleet of mismatched vessels through some hazards while trying to avoid the Iconian Gateways in the Delta Quadrant." It could have been: "Voyager leads a fleet of mismatched vessels through some hazards while trying to avoid the [insert random space/time distortions] in the Delta Quadrant." Very good book, though.
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Summary: No Man's Land
Review: Deep in the Delta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Voyager is caught in the center of a Gateways controversy, as Captain Janeway must make a difficult decision that will impact the safety of her entire crew...and that of a fleet of lost ships.
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Summary: Good Voyager story
Review: I am usually wary of anything that deals with the Voyager series. The few Voyager novels that I have read though have been superior to the TV series. This is one of those novels. The author captures what was really the best qualities of the series and the characters. Here all the characters have something to do not like the TV series where it became the 7 of 9 show. Nothing wrong with that but variety would have been nice. Here we get to see Janeway as a strong leader. Not someone that sometime became irrational as shown on the show at times. Janeway and Chakotay have a strong bond here which I approve but differed from the series finale. This is more appropriate and logical not the crazy pairing they did at the end. I also liked the fact the author show us all these different alien species and some of the older ones of the TV series. The book has good action and has some cute, light moments. It is not perfect but the Gateway series has definately picked up from book 2 and has done well after that. Hopefully book 6 will be good too.
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Summary: What???
Review: I don't know what to say about this book. For a Star Trek story, it was good, not the greatest thing but a good book. For a Voyager story it was even better, Janeway's ability to lead and conquer impossible situations shines though in this book. For the Gateways series... this book was useless. I'm a huge Voyager fan, so this was the very first Gateways book I read. After reading it I thought it was phenominal, Janeway, all alone in the Delta Quadrant, happens upon SEVERAL other ships now also lost with her. Some of them friendly, some of them hostile, some of them at war back on their home planets, and some of them (the Hirogen) who are supposed to be enemies but don't seem to be. And then the end (in book 7) was "WOW." But, now I've read three other Gateways books (TNG, DS9, and NF), and I have found that the Voyager installation in the Gateways series really had absolutely nothing to do with the Gateways in the other books. The only link is that you find out where the Iconians got the Gateways to begin with. But the Gateways in Voyager were not of the same sort as those in the other series, making this a useless read if you want to follow the Gateways series specifically. My recommendation here is if you like Voyager and want to see some typical Janeway diplomacy and tough-as-nails leadership read this book. But if you are only getting this book for the Gateways' series skip it.
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Summary: What???
Review: I don't know what to say about this book. For a Star Trek story, it was good, not the greatest thing but a good book. For a Voyager story it was even better, Janeway's ability to lead and conquer impossible situations shines though in this book. For the Gateways series... this book was useless. I'm a huge Voyager fan, so this was the very first Gateways book I read. After reading it I thought it was phenominal, Janeway, all alone in the Delta Quadrant, happens upon SEVERAL other ships now also lost with her. Some of them friendly, some of them hostile, some of them at war back on their home planets, and some of them (the Hirogen) who are supposed to be enemies but don't seem to be. And then the end (in book 7) was "WOW." But, now I've read three other Gateways books (TNG, DS9, and NF), and I have found that the Voyager installation in the Gateways series really had absolutely nothing to do with the Gateways in the other books. The only link is that you find out where the Iconians got the Gateways to begin with. But the Gateways in Voyager were not of the same sort as those in the other series, making this a useless read if you want to follow the Gateways series specifically. My recommendation here is if you like Voyager and want to see some typical Janeway diplomacy and tough-as-nails leadership read this book. But if you are only getting this book for the Gateways' series skip it.
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Summary: My Thoughts
Review: I thought this was a great read. As a recently converted Star Trek fan, I really enjoyed it. I was a little unsure of whether or not to buy it, but I'm glad I did! I thought the plot was good, and some of the descriptions were excellent. Well Done to Christie Golden.
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Summary: Unnecessary segment in the "Gateways" series
Review: I was greatly disappointed in this book for several reasons. Most significant was the fact that it is only very vaguely related to the others in the series; the action in this book adds nothing to the saga begun by Kirk and his crew in book one. This book and it's concluding chapter in book seven could be omitted with no loss. Add to this the amateurish writing, uncharacteristic action, and embarrassingly poor dialogue, and the reader has little reason to waste the time or money on this installment.
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Summary: Unnecessary segment in the "Gateways" series
Review: I was greatly disappointed in this book for several reasons. Most significant was the fact that it is only very vaguely related to the others in the series; the action in this book adds nothing to the saga begun by Kirk and his crew in book one. This book and it's concluding chapter in book seven could be omitted with no loss. Add to this the amateurish writing, uncharacteristic action, and embarrassingly poor dialogue, and the reader has little reason to waste the time or money on this installment.
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Summary: Weak, but not unreadable.
Review: Let me start by saying it would be just plain impossible for me to give a bad review to Christie Golden. Sorry, but I just can't do it. As an added bonus, she used the word "gibe" correctly. This alone was worth the read. (An inside joke, to be sure, but it still counts for me.) Unfortunately, I could give this one only three stars because the story itself is pretty watery, though I don't necessarily blame Christie for it. She wrote a VOY novel set prior to the series end, as part of a crossover series of stories. I wouldn't wish for a worse set of parameters! No way can a VOY story with these kinds of limitations ever hope to be anything more than a swift ride with Janeway at the helm. And that's just what this one is. Strange gateways open in Delta Quadrant space, spilling out all manner of ships, containing friend and foe alike. Janeway herds and leads. Things happen. Up pops a dangerous nebula. Janeway leads the caravan through. More things happen. In the end, we find Janeway herself going through a gateway on a planet and disappearing - thus the set-up for the conclusion, contained, together with conclusions of the other five books in this series, in Book Seven of the Gateways series. One thin thread keeps this story bound together, but it seems a bit far-"fetched."
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Summary: Weak, but not unreadable.
Review: Let me start by saying it would be just plain impossible for me to give a bad review to Christie Golden. Sorry, but I just can't do it. As an added bonus, she used the word "gibe" correctly. This alone was worth the read. (An inside joke, to be sure, but it still counts for me.) Unfortunately, I could give this one only three stars because the story itself is pretty watery, though I don't necessarily blame Christie for it. She wrote a VOY novel set prior to the series end, as part of a crossover series of stories. I wouldn't wish for a worse set of parameters! No way can a VOY story with these kinds of limitations ever hope to be anything more than a swift ride with Janeway at the helm. And that's just what this one is. Strange gateways open in Delta Quadrant space, spilling out all manner of ships, containing friend and foe alike. Janeway herds and leads. Things happen. Up pops a dangerous nebula. Janeway leads the caravan through. More things happen. In the end, we find Janeway herself going through a gateway on a planet and disappearing - thus the set-up for the conclusion, contained, together with conclusions of the other five books in this series, in Book Seven of the Gateways series. One thin thread keeps this story bound together, but it seems a bit far-"fetched."
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