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.
In our last chapter, Daniel became my favorite character in the book not part of the original cast as they prepared for the Vulcan version of a trial. This chapter sadly will not continue that but it should be good. I’ve made my biggest issue with the novel clear enough, that the murder plot and character drama could have been better mixed throughout the novel than what we got. Getting past that I have been enjoying the book. No work is perfect but we can see the flaws in good works and the good moments in bad works. It’s what my site launched on declaring and it holds true now. I can even see elements that Ncuti Gatwa and even Jodie Whittaker could have been good Doctors had the right steps been taken. They weren’t.
This is why my comic reviews for example have a “got right/got wrong” format most of the time. With a few exceptions I haven’t seen a comic that didn’t have some redeeming quality despite being terrible, or a story so good there were no flaws. Both have happened, and that’s true for novels, TV, and anything else this franchise has gone into. This book has made one mistake that as a reviewer I have to point out but as a reader hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the book. With that, let’s see what Kirk is up to. Oh right, his date. If my suspicions are true, this may not go the way Kirk wants it.
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