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A review by toryp
Second Nature by David Mack
3.0
3.5*
I really enjoyed this as the beginning to the Seekers series!
It's been a while since I've finished Vanguard but David Mack did a great job of catching the reader back up. And it was great to be back with the old crew - Thierault and Khatami are the only ones I really remember, other than Kang, but I managed!
I've really missed the way Star Trek novels are written - with characters consistently competent as well as the assumed knowledge of all this Trekky stuff I've learnt over the past five years or so.
Onto the story - I loved the idea of a planet of super beings, and although it's obviously not very original, I think it was done in a super entertaining way. It bordered on horror in some parts - it could have leant into that more. And the entertainment factor of seeing these beings take out a whole Klingon ship was great. Keeping all the ships on one planet was great as well, with downing the Sagittarius and the bird of prey.
I ship Vanessa and Dastin very much but since this is Star Trek I highly doubt that will go anywhere. I also really liked Tormog's character. He's smart and cowardly, which is a great character combo IMO (as long as there are other perspectives to balance it out).
Predictions? Other than Starfleet just leaving the planet well enough alone, I think potentially they'll have to knock out the Changed with some kind of strong gas, and then relocate the other villagers. Or splice their DNA with human DNA rather than Shedai?
I really enjoyed this as the beginning to the Seekers series!
It's been a while since I've finished Vanguard but David Mack did a great job of catching the reader back up. And it was great to be back with the old crew - Thierault and Khatami are the only ones I really remember, other than Kang, but I managed!
I've really missed the way Star Trek novels are written - with characters consistently competent as well as the assumed knowledge of all this Trekky stuff I've learnt over the past five years or so.
Onto the story - I loved the idea of a planet of super beings, and although it's obviously not very original, I think it was done in a super entertaining way. It bordered on horror in some parts - it could have leant into that more. And the entertainment factor of seeing these beings take out a whole Klingon ship was great. Keeping all the ships on one planet was great as well, with downing the Sagittarius and the bird of prey.
I ship Vanessa and Dastin very much but since this is Star Trek I highly doubt that will go anywhere. I also really liked Tormog's character. He's smart and cowardly, which is a great character combo IMO (as long as there are other perspectives to balance it out).
Predictions? Other than Starfleet just leaving the planet well enough alone, I think potentially they'll have to knock out the Changed with some kind of strong gas, and then relocate the other villagers. Or splice their DNA with human DNA rather than Shedai?