New review
Jan. 30th, 2010 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defcons_treklitMy review of Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing by Michael A. Martin is now online over at Unreality SF.
Quote:
"The high fluctuation in quality in this novel is another reason why the whole thing doesn’t really feel like one coherent whole worthy of the Romulan War, but more like someone just collected stories from the war by different contributors. If that had been the intention, you could see it as a successful experiment, but since there’s no indication that it was planned out that way, The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing ends up as a somewhat schizophrenic novel. Very well-written scenes alternate with scenes you get headaches from reading, only to be followed by a really good one again. But if - and that’s a relatively big if - Martin gets his act together and is able to keep the high quality for whole novels, hope might not actually lost for the series, yet."
Quote:
"The high fluctuation in quality in this novel is another reason why the whole thing doesn’t really feel like one coherent whole worthy of the Romulan War, but more like someone just collected stories from the war by different contributors. If that had been the intention, you could see it as a successful experiment, but since there’s no indication that it was planned out that way, The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing ends up as a somewhat schizophrenic novel. Very well-written scenes alternate with scenes you get headaches from reading, only to be followed by a really good one again. But if - and that’s a relatively big if - Martin gets his act together and is able to keep the high quality for whole novels, hope might not actually lost for the series, yet."
