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octavia_cade's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
3.0
Fast-paced and adventurous. It's been a while since I've seen the DS9 episodes that this novelisation is based on, but as I read the book more and more of the scenes came to mind. They really were a great run of episodes... I'm struck, though, as I read, at how abrupt the victory at the end of the story is. I can't quite call it unearned, as all the characters - and the rest of the Federation, as well as the Klingons - are slogging their guts out trying to win the war. Their efforts, however, in practical storytelling terms, are basically there to set up the intervention of the wormhole aliens. It's a very literal deus ex machina, and I'm not sure that I appreciate it. I am sure that I appreciate Sisko's absolute frustration with the wormhole aliens, because their vague meanderings irritate me as well... that kind of portentous dialogue is frequently a very hard sell with me, and the wormhole aliens always get stuck with the worst of it.
I have to say, though, Sisko's a better person than I, in that he can still feel sorry for Dukat at the end. I sure as hell don't. Someone should have quietly shot him in the back of the head when he was weeping over his daughter's body, and good riddance to him. I suppose that behaviour isn't really Star Trek, though, is it.
I have to say, though, Sisko's a better person than I, in that he can still feel sorry for Dukat at the end. I sure as hell don't. Someone should have quietly shot him in the back of the head when he was weeping over his daughter's body, and good riddance to him. I suppose that behaviour isn't really Star Trek, though, is it.
mousie_books's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this quite a bit. It is exciting, and (expected) true to form for the characters.
'Sacrifice of Angels' directly follows the events inbook 2 in the Dominion War quartet, instead of book 3. It is a novelization of the final episodes of the Dominion war and the recapture of DS9. I am unsure how much is directly from the episodes versus added context. It has been about ten years since I've watched them. There definitely was a high nostalgia factor, and it made me want to re-watch a bunch of episodes.
'Sacrifice of Angels' directly follows the events inbook 2 in the Dominion War quartet, instead of book 3. It is a novelization of the final episodes of the Dominion war and the recapture of DS9. I am unsure how much is directly from the episodes versus added context. It has been about ten years since I've watched them. There definitely was a high nostalgia factor, and it made me want to re-watch a bunch of episodes.
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