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Summary: Masterful! A journey of the human/alien soul
Review: This was an excelent novel. Each character's past all weave into one out come: they all end up on Voyager's 75 year trip home. Each story is seperate, and draws you into it in one way or another.My most favorite part was Tuvok's journey through the deserts of Vulcan. My two favorite stories in general were Nelix and Kes' stories. (They were the most lose ended characters of the whole show and it was cool to find out how they meet.) Even though the novel is full of a few mistakes, like how Nelix says he never told Kes his story, but then in Kes' story he tells her about himself. Yet, the main focus of the stories fully made up for it all, and more. I highly recommend this book, especially for Voyager fans.
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Summary: Love the wonderful character development. Great Job!
Review: This was a wonderful journey into the past lives of the Voyager crew. It helped me to understand the characters more completely and it was also great reading. Loved it!
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Summary: This is a very good and informative book.
Review: Ms. Taylor's book is very good and informative, never mind that not everything in it doesn't agree with the series. Not everybody memorizes every little detail in the other books and the episodes. I watch teh episodes every week, and I don't usually like books that tell differently, but in this book you don't really notice the details like that, because you are so caught up in the story. I bought this book in hardcover (which I usually don't) but it was defently worth the extra money. I've been recommending this book to everybody I know who watches Voyager, and even some of them who don't read the Star Trek books have bought it and enjoyed it emensly. Pathways is as good as Mosiac, and I hope Ms. Taylor continues to writ eVoyager books.
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Summary: Wounderfully written!
Review: I loved reading the book Pathways. I like how Jeri Taylor gives us some background on Voyager's senior staff. I understand that some of the facts don't agree with the T.V. series, but I'm not a regular Star Trek watcher. Out of Taylor's two books, my favorite was Mosaic, but Pathways was still an enjoyable reader.
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Summary: Taylor's second Voyager novel is even worse than her first.
Review: Unfortunately, Jeri Taylor's sequel to Mosaic is not even at the level of her debut novel. While the characters look like the characters we know and love, they don't sound or act like them. The backstories she spins are contradicted by the series itself in several key instances, and for some inexplicable reason the novel is set after Kes' departure, forcing a plot contrivance of enormous proportions, and Seven of Nine is present but utterly wasted as she tells no tales. But the hardest pill to swallow is Taylor's characterisations of the Voyager crew and their families. Why is Taylor incapable of writing female characters whose feelings of self-worth don't stem from their relationships with the men in their lives, and have completely inaffectual mothers and zero positive female role models? How can any Trek writer have such a complete and utter lack of understanding of the Vulcan people? And how can the creator, executive producer, and staff writer of a series mana! ge to violate canon in upwards of seven different key instances in her novel? And why didn't anyone--from pitch to galley proofs--ever point out "Hey, didn't they say in the big B'Elanna epsiode "Faces" first season...?" or "Hey, that whole huge Tom scene in the pilot where they set up his character, didn't they say...?" The novel is a grave disappointment to Voyager fans, and thankfully Taylor is no longer on the series writing staff, and the novels are not considered canon.
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Summary: Pathways gives insight on the pasts of Voyagers senior staff
Review: I immensely enjoyed this book. It gave me deeper insight into the lives of the senior officers on board the ill-fated USS Voyager. I don't wish to give away the story however although some information strays from "previously" known information, it was well written and very emotionally written. I'd also like to mention that there are two instances of homosexual couples...I am not gay however, I do know that many gay Star Trek fans have been lobbying for a homosexual charachter and I commend Jeri Taylor for pulling it off nicely. It also seems that when Taylor first wrote it, it had not been decided between the powers that be, that Kes would depart and Seven would appear. It appears that she delayed release until some backstory was created about Seven and included her and I must say that Taylor very nicely included Kes' backstory too, which I might hint at being one of the best stories....(Tuvok's was really, really good). I would recommend this book to any! one who absolutely loved Mosaic, about Kathryn Janeway. Although Pathways doesn't go so deeply into their lives, the stories that are told are pretty intense and emotional for only what seems a short story. Captain Janeway does make an appearance with an outcome that may surprise you. Even though Taylor has departed amiacably from Star Trek Voyager, I hope that she will continue writting more Trek books, especially ones about the Delta Quadrant Starfleet.
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Summary: Richly detailed, enjoyable, and not for the nit-picky
Review: First, forget the plot synopsis, shown in this listing, about Capt. Janeway lying near death. The fact that this isn't the premise (probably an early idea that was later discarded) isn't important, because the plot is simply a device for letting each character tell his or her life story. This is a *good* thing, as opposed to those lifeless Star Trek books that treat the characters as one-dimensional props to keep the "action" moving along. (But there's still plenty of excitement in these stories.) "Pathways" is basically a companion to "Mosaic," which gave us Capt. Janeway's life story. This one tells us the history of each of the other Voyager crew members, with some familiar material along with a lot of surprises. The stories are richly detailed, and crafted with an obvious love for this group of people who were thrown together by fate. However, this kind of book leaves itself wide open to nit-picking by those who have memorized every d! ! etail of the Voyagers' stories from the TV series and the previous books. And, indeed, there are some discrepancies here, even within the book itself--as when Neelix bemoans the fact that he didn't share much of his past with Kes, then during Kes' story we hear how he spent his first weeks with her telling her all about his life, including his drug addiction and agonizing withdrawal. Yes, I noticed some of these slipups, and couldn't help mentally comparing the "Pathways" storylines with what's been established already, even though I'm not a hardcore Trekker. So I wish that the research and continuity had been given more attention. However, this is still a terrific book, one that I enjoyed reading very much. I bought this in hardback and it was worth the extra expense--it's definitely a keeper.
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Summary: "Pathways" an Intricately Woven Tapestry
Review: What a good book; I could not put it down. Ms. Taylor has woven a tale out of many tales, tying the life stories of Voyager's crew (sans her captain) into a much larger story of their imprisonment in an alien concentration camp. As their situation worsens, they try to keep up each others spirits by telling a tale of their lives before they were were brought together as a crew with their abduction from the Alpha Quadrant into the virtually unknown, and light years distant, Delta Quadrant. Each individual's story is rich with emotion, even the normally stoic Vulcan, and filled with insight into their personas and the motivations for the choices they have made in life. Jeri has obviously put her own touch in writing this novel, as she delves deeply into characters she has championed throughout the history of the Star Trek series. Lt. Tom Paris, the sandy haired pilot tells the real story behind his fall from grace in Starfleet (this may clash with what we've known before, I'm not certain as to why Ms. Taylor has deviated from what has been explained in previous storylines, like the absence of Caldik Prime), and the pain that runs deep as a result. All of the main characters (except Janeway, who is not in the camp with them) get a chance to tell of their past lives, including a surprise in the form of Kes, the Ocampan woman who transformed into a being of higher consciousness early in the 4th season. All in all, this is a very enjoyable read. You will laugh, you will cry, you will want to read it all over again.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book it was well written and believable. Many people are angry that some of the things on this book are comtradicted by the series, but you have to remember that this book was written before the episodes in question, so its not the Jeri Taylor's fault.
Before I read this I read another one of Jeri's books "Mosaic", which excellently told the story of the captain, and this was equally as well written.
I enjoyed the way they brought kes back and I thought her story may have been the best one here. It's a shame they didn't go into seven's past here, but the book "Seven of Nine" does that well enough.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good trek read.
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Summary: Group Therapy?
Review: This is one of those books I enjoyed, but still found serious fault with at the same time. The point of the story is to tell the backgrounds of some of the main charachters of voyager. In that, it does quite well. I found the stories of each of the charachters to be well writen and invigorating. However, the way it was presented.....the crew captured and held in a prison camp, and to pass the time they tell the stories of thier life which led to becoming part of the Voyager crew. It just doesn't seem right. Some technical problems as well, I seriously doubt the method used to escape would have been possible in those conditions. Secondly, it was a bit on the sappy side in the transitions between stories. I was almost expecting a big group hug in parts. Thirdly, some of the stories don't match up with the series.....perhaps the book was written before those episodes were made? Dispite these problems, it was an enjoyable read which gives insight into the crew of the Voyager.
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