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Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 6

by Stan Lee

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The Paleontologist

by Luke Dumas (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 06, 2024 05:24AM

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Death in Winter (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Second Decade #1)

by Michael Jan Friedman (Goodreads Author)

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Chad said: " I was skeptical about this book going in, mostly from my misgivings with the cover. And I know, don’t judge the book by its cover. Except we do it all the time and we absolutely should judge a book based on the cover. It’s the first thing people see I was skeptical about this book going in, mostly from my misgivings with the cover. And I know, don’t judge the book by its cover. Except we do it all the time and we absolutely should judge a book based on the cover. It’s the first thing people see after all and I would think making that first impression would be something important to consider. This looks like a poorly photoshopped movie poster so my expectations were fairly low.

I should consider though that this was published at a time when Star Trek was pretty much done as a franchise. The first JJ film hadn’t even aired yet so I suppose it’s no surprise that the publisher wasn’t exactly throwing money at this. I made the decision to give the post-Nemesis novels a try and this is the start of that journey.

First off, there are a ton of great callbacks to the Berman era of Trek and there are some great appearances from some of your favorite characters. There’s also quite a bit of connections made to other Trek novels - an area that I did feel less informed on as I haven’t read many TNG books. Despite this disadvantage, I still felt like I could connect with the plot fairly well.

Ages ago, before TMP was made there was talk of a new series with the original cast - Star Trek Phase Two. It never happened obviously but what I like about this book was that it felt like it could have been the start of a phase two style show for TNG. So as the first book of this ongoing series it does a good job establishing this universe.

There’s also some good material between Picard and Crusher, a relationship that often was complicated on the show and this book plays on that relationship quite well.

I’m always a bit hot and cold with Romulan storylines. I tend to gloss over some parts and my brain goes a bit fuzzy keeping characters straight as it always just seems to come down to everyone scheming against everyone else. Still, the establishment of the power struggle post-Shinzon was nicely done.

I’m definitely excited to read more into this storyline. On to book one of Titan. ...more "

Jan 05, 2023 01:13PM · see review

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