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Summary: Much better than the first
Review: This book is actually much better than its predecessor. For the most part, the characters remained fairly true to their natures, and while this whole series is kind of far-fetched if you think about it, if you throw yourself headfirst into the book it's actually a solid bit of entertainment. I actually found myself liking Jekri Kaleh this time around. Usually, and this includes Cloak and Dagger, the various alien characters that are introduced for the duration of the book bore me to death, but this time I actually found her scenes fairly interesting, especially as the book progressed. The cliffhanger at the end is good...when I finished the book I was like "Noooooo!!!!" I can't wait to get the third one! Also, the book has some funny bits, which is always fun :-)
Rating:
Summary: Much better than the first
Review: This book is actually much better than its predecessor. For the most part, the characters remained fairly true to their natures, and while this whole series is kind of far-fetched if you think about it, if you throw yourself headfirst into the book it's actually a solid bit of entertainment. I actually found myself liking Jekri Kaleh this time around. Usually, and this includes Cloak and Dagger, the various alien characters that are introduced for the duration of the book bore me to death, but this time I actually found her scenes fairly interesting, especially as the book progressed. The cliffhanger at the end is good...when I finished the book I was like "Noooooo!!!!" I can't wait to get the third one! Also, the book has some funny bits, which is always fun :-)
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Summary: great
Review: this is great. but you need to read cloak and dagger to understand what is happening.
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Summary: ST-Voyager Dark Matters: Ghost Dance
Review: This is the second installment of a three part series calld Ghost Dance written by Christie Golden. I found that this book to be just a little under the first book in this series... not that it was bad, on the contrary, but this book brings us into to the shadow or parallel universe. Now, not only do we have the villains and the Romulans, but a new super-being is introduced. The Voyager crew is split-up and Chakotay and Paris are now in the strange shadow universe leaving Janeway with the "Q-like" being. The Romulans are as treacherous as ever with the allied "Shepards" make an ominous pairing. There is plenty of action here and the plot thickens. The Dark Matter which is normally at balance between the two universes is now out of balance... sucking one universe into the other. Now, the story gets interesting, but to understand this you have to read the first book to make out "who's on first." This book is good, but falls a tad short of the first. Now, continue on to book three.
Rating: 
Summary: So-so series
Review: This series started off great. Romulans, a new threat, a shadowy new race, good characterizations. Then it hit a bit of a downspiral that the last book helps pull out. The Romulan universe in these books works well. I liked the people secretly studying the Vulcan Way, and kudos for not dragging Spock into it. I love Spock, but it's nice to see that his influence has spread enough that it's not necessary he be there. And the whole sequence of events on that side of the Neutral Zone worked well. However... The author made a couple major character flaws. Chakotay is a vegetarian. It's mentioned mutiple times in the show. And yet, the author has Chakotay salivating over meat roasts many times. How Christie Golden could get so many details correct and mess up with this one, I don't know. Second, the crew of the Voyager has more than once regretted relying on Neelix cooking and not having full acess to replicator; it's why their replicator rations are so important to them. yet, in these books, everyone cheers on when they get to kill something and cook it, plus Neelix and his concoctions are prized highly. Huh? My guess is, the author is a hunter and mistakenly put her preferences on the Voyager characters, but it doesn't fit. It works better with the race she created. Unfortunately, that whole conflict dragged on too much. Also dragged out was the secret of who the Entity was. You can guess it at the beginning of the second book at the latest. That means you have TWO books to sit through. Perhaps the second and third book could have been better edited to be one book. It would have helped a lot.
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Summary: So-so series
Review: This series started off great. Romulans, a new threat, a shadowy new race, good characterizations. Then it hit a bit of a downspiral that the last book helps pull out. The Romulan universe in these books works well. I liked the people secretly studying the Vulcan Way, and kudos for not dragging Spock into it. I love Spock, but it's nice to see that his influence has spread enough that it's not necessary he be there. And the whole sequence of events on that side of the Neutral Zone worked well. However... The author made a couple major character flaws. Chakotay is a vegetarian. It's mentioned mutiple times in the show. And yet, the author has Chakotay salivating over meat roasts many times. How Christie Golden could get so many details correct and mess up with this one, I don't know. Second, the crew of the Voyager has more than once regretted relying on Neelix cooking and not having full acess to replicator; it's why their replicator rations are so important to them. yet, in these books, everyone cheers on when they get to kill something and cook it, plus Neelix and his concoctions are prized highly. Huh? My guess is, the author is a hunter and mistakenly put her preferences on the Voyager characters, but it doesn't fit. It works better with the race she created. Unfortunately, that whole conflict dragged on too much. Also dragged out was the secret of who the Entity was. You can guess it at the beginning of the second book at the latest. That means you have TWO books to sit through. Perhaps the second and third book could have been better edited to be one book. It would have helped a lot.
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Summary: My Intro To Voyager
Review: This was the book that sucked me into the Voyager books. Yes, I started with the middle of a series, but why not? It got me interested. The book is wonderfully written, as is the rest of the series with action and adventure. The end of the book bothered me a bit but I have read all three 3 times. I deffinatly recomend them to all Trek lovers out there.
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