Rating: Summary: FANTASTIC!!!! THE VERY BEST OF ALL!!!! Review: I recommend it to anyone who has been following William Shatner's books since the awesome "Ashes of Eden". Just one thing: PLEASE, DON'T MAKE US WAIT ANOTHER YEAR FOR PRESERVER!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Don't make me wait another year for Preserver. Review: This is one that can't be put down. I waited a year for this one and was not disappointed. A great book. Please don't make me wait another year for Preserver!
Rating: Summary: EXCELLENT! Review: Excellent Book by Shatner (again). I loved this book. I read it straight though in a Day. The Only Thing in this book I Didnt like is waiting for the news about the Cure. I Hope Preservers is out Real Soon!
Rating: Summary: I found Dark Victory an interesting book and good to read. Review: Dark Victory was interesting. I thought it would answer the questions that I had form the last book but it instead it just left a lot of more questions. In an over view on the book I thought it was a very good book. Shatner has cought my attention again. So far every book that he has written on Star Trek has been very good. With the help of his writting staff he has created another good book. Back to the book at hand I was disappointed at the end but I guess that will lead to another great squeal with Kirk and his friends. I really wanted to know what happen with his counterpart. But that was not the case. How ever, they made a great story line on Teilani and Kirk. I was glad he was able to find someone who loves him and understands him. Then to put a conspiracy in the book that really made it interesting. What could happen next. I thought it was great that Shatner brought in the crew from TNG. Picard and Kirk make a good team together and it would be great to see more interaction with the two promt Captains of Starfleet. I thought that they could have gone into more detail about Project Sign. That way the reader would know what the conspiracy was about but that would take out the mystery for the next book. I wonder if anybody really knows what Project Sign is really about. That they would trick two very promt Captains of Starfleet into the samething. That would make anyone wonder what is really going on. In over view the book is very good. I recommend it to anyone who has been following William Shatner's books from the being or if you are a new reader looking for something different to read then read this book. If you like this then read his others. In all I can not wait for the next book.
Rating: Summary: Keep them coming Review: Shatner has done it again. The story line is twisted the characters well developed, and the anticipation kept at a high level throughout. I read it in 2 1/2 hours. The one thing I love about these books is the lack of a cutesy, animated character. Hopefully we will see as much action or more when Preserver is published. I also think that Shatner can keep Kirk going in future story lines.
Rating: Summary: Wow!!! Review: This is a great book. I have been on the edge of my seat reading. This book takes you "where no one has gone before," literally. Trek and Shatner fans this is a Must Buy. This is the best of the Shatner series, in my opinion. It will surprise and excite you.
Rating: Summary: The best yet in Mr. Shatner's Star Trek series. Review: From cover to cover this book keeps you on the edge of your seat. The interweaving of sub-plots proves very effective to keep the pace of the book and the plots twists are sometimes completely unexpected and against standard. I for one don't think I can wait a year for the sequel. Cruel to make us wait so long.
Rating: Summary: Star Trek at it's Best - Dark Victory Review: Shatner has done it again. "Dark Victory" was worth the wait. Read it in one night - couldn't put it down. And just when you think it couldn't get any better... Bam! just like Emeril Lagasse, Shatner turns it up a notch! One problem: Don't want to wait for "Preserver".
Rating: Summary: Excellent book! Review: I thought it was very good. It pit kirk against kirk,you can't get anymore confused! I can only hope they bring all of the T.V. shows back out in books!
Rating: Summary: Entertaining - But Essentially A Filler Review: This story, the second of the "Mirror Universe Trilogy", continues right where "Spectre" (the first book in the series) left off. The story takes place in 2374 initially and then jumps forward about eight months later into 2375, placing it at least after the events of the movie "Star Trek: Insurrection".
Here we have Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Picard (and his crew), and the "Mirror Universe" counterparts setting off to save the day. And this highlights some of my issues with this book: there are a lot of characters and a lot going on. You have secretive Starfleet organizations in this universe and two fighting factions in the "Mirror Universe" plus various members of both the Original Series and the Next Generation showing up (not to mention a few Deep Space Nine and Voyager personnel) and I just get this feeling of not really caring about the plot, per se - just letting the story carry me forward.
And that brings up another point for me which is that a lot is happening here from a human angle. Dealing with counterparts from another universe; the possible death of loved ones; the loss of limbs and abilities; the chain of command and when it should and should not be followed; different command styles for different time periods; being out of place in a new time period; bitter regret at apparent betrayal after services rendered in the line of duty. All these things are alluded to, in passing, but none are really explored. They are subsumed under the general plot. Whole areas where human angst would come into play are usually glossed over in a page or even just a paragraph. I know that in-depth exploration of these issues is not the point of the story: but then the brief focusing on each of them is, to me, more distracting than engaging.
"Spectre", in my opinion, was saved from avoiding many of these same kinds of issues by the pace of the action *and* by the continuity of the action. To be sure the same sense of pace is in "Dark Victory" and that pace is just as fast in some ways, but, for me, not as continuous. Too much of the action struck me as episodic to the point of being a bit too fragmented. Certain events just seemed to happen without a lot of context behind them, the idea being just to keep the pace going. Characters would just turn up or say things or know things and, again, sometimes a context seemed to be lacking. What saved the book for me is that it is the second of a series. So if you are reading it you are (presumably) already curious about how the story continues and thus a little more forgiving than you might be with a stand-alone story. Overall, "Dark Victory" was a moderately interesting story for me in the Star Trek mythos but I really only found myself plodding through it to make sure I would have a context for the third in the series ("Preserver"). I would prefer a story that is not trying so hard to interweave so much Star Trek history and instead explores the characters in a given setting that allows us to come to understand them and their motivations better.
I gave this three stars because it kept me reading - but only by rote. It was not a boring read by any means but a lot of characterization was subsumed under the plot as the mysteries and secrets kept piling on leading to the inevitable cliff-hanger that would take us to the final book of the series.
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