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Summary: Actually rather interesting
Review: Despite other negative reviews, I actually enjoyed this one. It was talky, but still really interesting. There were no big gory battles, or huge action scenes, which was just as well, since that would ruin the storyline. Geordi's the main character, which is a nice, refreshing change. The plot was really well thought out and descriptive. The plague aspect, of course, has been done many times, but there were interesting new twists to it. It really is an enjoyable book - give it a try!
Rating:
Summary: Actually rather interesting
Review: Despite other negative reviews, I actually enjoyed this one. It was talky, but still really interesting. There were no big gory battles, or huge action scenes, which was just as well, since that would ruin the storyline. Geordi's the main character, which is a nice, refreshing change. The plot was really well thought out and descriptive. The plague aspect, of course, has been done many times, but there were interesting new twists to it. It really is an enjoyable book - give it a try!
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Summary: Interesting
Review: Despite several bad reviews of this book, I have to say I really enjoyed it. It was a refreshing change from the normal space battles and plots that usually are written. Since I consider myself a Historian of the Future, my only complaint was the lack of specified time periods between past events. That made it difficult to place events in the timeline.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: Despite several bad reviews of this book, I have to say I really enjoyed it. It was a refreshing change from the normal space battles and plots that usually are written. Since I consider myself a Historian of the Future, my only complaint was the lack of specified time periods between past events. That made it difficult to place events in the timeline.
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I have read 75% of the Next Gen. books, and this is, by far, the worst of the lot.The plot, (if you can call it that), is extremely boring.The action is non-existant. I had difficulty forcing myself to finish the book. Don't bother, it's a waste of time.
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Summary: One of the Worst.
Review: I have read nearly all of the TNG books, and I have to say: this is without doubt one of the worst.There were some good things about the book (not many but some), one of which was the descriptions of Ne'elat, which I found to be quite vivid, and the other is the front cover, which has a nice use of gold lettering and colour, although I'm not sure this should be considered when buying the book. Other than that though ... As far as bad points go, there is practically no insight into the characters of the crew or the aliens. I will go as far to admit that I admired the author's style of writing, and it would have been a good book if it hadn't been so MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING! I could tell from the start that this was not going to be one of TNG's best offerings, and unfortunately I was proved right. There was no plot to speak of, way too much speaking, and as I said before, no character information. In my opinion: don't waste your money. Buy 'Imzadi' or 'Q in Law'.
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Summary: Good premise, execution flawed
Review: I kind of got the feeling with this that Friesner already had story concept that she then changed into a Star Trek novel. Many of the familiar characters did not ring true (especially Geordi); and let's face it, you could have slotted anyone into the roles of the Enterprise crew and the plot would still have functioned perfectly well.
It was a good premise for a story, full of cliches or not; and the parts set on Ashkaar were effectively done and the most enjoyable sections of the book. But "To Storm Heaven" really did suffer from being so short. Too many things came out of nowhere (like Geordi's romance), or were skimmed over too quickly. Space wasted on the saga of "Tribble who fights with honour" could have been put to much better use. And in the end, the story just dribbled away to nothing, with everything resolved by an unlikely about-face from a villain.
"To Storm Heaven" shows the author's fantasy roots. But more was needed to turn the premise into a good novel, let alone a satisfactory Star Trek novel.
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Summary: To Storm Heaven - Not ready for prime time
Review: I've read most of the TNG books and found this one to be without a doubt the most boring of the bunch. Try as I might, I could not finish this boring entry in the TNG library. From a dull story to flat and uninteresting characters....this is one to be avoided.
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Summary: To Storm Heaven - Not ready for prime time
Review: I've read most of the TNG books and found this one to be without a doubt the most boring of the bunch. Try as I might, I could not finish this boring entry in the TNG library. From a dull story to flat and uninteresting characters....this is one to be avoided.
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Summary: OMG was this book boring!!
Review: It was so mind-numbingly slow that I could not even get through it. Perhaps it ended well, but me, as the reader, would never know that, since the book was too hard to complete. I have read many star trek novels and look forward to new ones being published, but as soon as I read this one, I became wary as to which books I would purchase in the future.
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