Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
The previous chapter showed us that not every action scene has to be a fight. Even with the tensions on display, the action was focused on stopping a potential disaster in an already existing disaster situation.
The chapter we’re looking at today doesn’t feature any of the original cast. That’s not a problem if that isn’t the trend. Author Jean Lorrah is trying to set up the tensions. She focuses more on personal drama, but unlike too many woman writers today we know from the previous book and the scene in the gym in a previous chapter that she can handle the action and tie it into the personal drama. We even saw that last time.
I do hope that the crew plays a larger role soon. This is the second time I’ve read this book but the first one was so very long ago that I barely remember it. It’s a new–ish experience for me. We’re going to check in with the Vulcans created for this book, a subplot I hope works and isn’t just an excuse for the writer to reuse some of her old characters. Thus far I don’t see a reason for the Followers Of T’Vet to be here, though I do understand reusing doctors she’s familiar with in a story that’s going to lean more on them than the previous one. Let’s see how she does.
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