- Mass Market Paperback: 297 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek (2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743400747
- ISBN-13: 978-0743400749
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,687,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The plot twists are too obvious.,
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This review is from: Gemini (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is an unfortunate example of an author overreaching himself. There are things he does very well and things he does not. The plot is one of those where the whole situation is not revealed until the very end of the book, and the pacing is well judged. The physical descriptions of scenes are excellent, and sometimes downright elegant. The author is also very good at generating an emotional reaction to his descriptions. Apart from those areas he has some problems. First off, Kirk's nephew Peter was included here, and the main reason seems to be to portray Kirk as feeling his age and generally acting a bit off what we normally see. Even before that, the author portrays Kirk as unable to fit in with his younger crew and also as a bit of a gloryhound. I found it inappropriate for both the book and the character. On a more serious note, the dialogue is not very good. For some reason the author's emotive skills abandon him whenever characters open their mouths. It does not help that the contrast between the almost juvenile dialogue and the quality of the descriptions around it is so strong. The last criticism is about the plot twists: I could see them coming a mile away. With an obvious plot twist, you either have to keep the pace up so high the audience forgets it's coming, or do the twist with such style the audience doesn't care. This author seems to have thought that they were not obvious and expected his following 'revelation' scenes to be a surprise, which they were not. It really lowered the enjoyment level of the book for me, even though the climax of the book finally has a genuinely unexpected plot twist, two in fact, which were actually well done. All in all, I can only recommend this book for other people who generally read their Trek books more than once. It reads better the second time, since you know what happens anyway.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A mediocre book, somewhat poorly written.,
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This review is from: Gemini (Mass Market Paperback)
The story was uninspiring if not actually bad, and while the characterizations were handled well and the pacing and drama were not bad, the actual physical writing was poor. There was far too many sloppy grammatical errors and such for the mediocre quality of the story to make up for; I'll tolerate a certain level of sloppiness if the story is good enough, but this one just wasn't good enough. Both the plot and the quality of the writing did pick up somewhat from a very weak beginning, which is why I gave the book three stars; at first impression, I was definitely leaning toward calling this a two-star effort.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gemini,
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This review is from: Gemini (Mass Market Paperback)
Gemini was an average Star Trek novel, with nothing to really make it stand out from the piles of other ST novels that have been written. That's not to say that it's bad, though. The characterizations of Kirk and his crew are pretty much dead-on, and the mystery of who the real villain was is somewhat surprising. The subplot about Kirk's nephew, Peter, doesn't really work, though. It just distracts from the main story and isn't really even slightly interesting. All in all, the plot is somewhat predictable and ultimately forgettable. I would recommend that unless you're a die-hard ST fan, that you pass this one up.
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