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I managed to pick up and blow through Immortal Coil right before reading this one. If you ever do get a chance, I really recommend it. It was a great read!As for this novel, I also really enjoyed it. David Mack is a consistently great writer of Trek fiction. I enjoyed the first-person narrative portion, as it's something you don't often see in Trek novels. However, I agree that it seems like it would be out of place given the situation.
The situation you mentioned in the spoilery bit was indeed a shock! I had to re-read that bit about five times before it sunk in that it had actually happened.
Here's the review I wrote for this novel back in November, if anyone is interested!
http://treklit.blogspot.com/2012/11/t...
Dan wrote: "I managed to pick up and blow through Immortal Coil right before reading this one. If you ever do get a chance, I really recommend it. It was a great read!As for this novel, I also really enjoyed..."
I really liked
as well. Data was always one of my favourite characters. It was interesting to read a 'backstory' on him.
Just finished Book 1 While I have never been a Soong fan, in fact I have always disliked him,but Mack got me to pull for him. Choudhury : it's random out of the blue attack maded me put the book down and take a break
I've been reading the DS9 books but Cold Equations got my attention. Question for those who have read these books: Is it necessary to read the books that came before to fully understand whats going on? Or can I dive in directly into book 1?
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You should be good to just jump in and begin reading. The book summarizes some of the things that have happen if they relate to this story. :-)
I really enjoyed the retrospective of Soong’s life. It was a fascinating look into Soong’s life both before Data, during TNG’s original run, and throughout many novelizations. You truly feel for Soong as his fatherly emotions for his sons runs deep, in particular his pride and sorrow about Data, his clear favourite. One thing that bothered me was the sudden transition to first person narrative, which makes it seem as though Soong is telling this entire lengthy story to Worf et al. while they are in the middle of a fairly dangerous situation. It was tough to believe they would stop for quite so long. But it wasn’t enough to take away from the story as a whole.
Though I haven’t read the novel that was used as a departure point for this (Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang), I didn’t feel as though I was missing anything. The author did a great job of filling in the gaps. It made me excited for when I actually get my hands on Immortal Coil, since this story was so great.
As always, Mack’s writing is gripping and intense. This book is definitely a set up for the remaining two in the trilogy, as most of the action doesn’t kick off until the last quarter of the book.
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While I figured Data would be resurrected in this book just given the cover and the back blurb, the ending still had my jaw dropped. I can't believe he killed off Jasminder Choudhury! She had rapidly become one of my favourite characters, and just like that she gets killed. I suppose that added to the edge of this novel. Admittedly it was a change of pace for a Trek book to have such a senseless and not overly dramatic death. But still... Choudhury! :-P
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