A review by octavia_cade
Survival by Peter David, James W. Fry III

3.0

2.5 stars, rounding up to 3. The last of the Worf-at-Starfleet-Academy trilogy, this is also the best of the bunch. Partly because I have a fondness for stories where people are marooned, and partly because of the focus on Soleta, who's fantastic (she more than makes up for Mark, whose airy strangeness is painfully belaboured - he's not remotely believable). Have to say I've never had much patience for coincidental contrivance, either, and the fact that the colonists built their colony right on top of a secret base made me roll my eyes, hard. But, as I said, there's still Soleta, who gets the best lines of the entire book, having smacked down an attacker of monstrous proportion: "I found his ship. Then he found me. Then I found his shoulder." Don't tell me Vulcans don't have a sense of humour, because I refuse to believe it.