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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.

Last time the power was out but now we’ve got fires. Whether that was intentional on the hacker’s part or some side benefit of shutting down the Academy computer we can’t currently say. It’s not like the murderer cares who else gets killed.

Thus far this has been a good Star Trek story but it has taken awhile for the mystery to finally take center stage. It’s not like we have a huge list of suspects and we can eliminate (pardon the expression) anyone from the show. We set up some potential motivations but we’re about to see how they come into play, or at least we will if all the new distractions don’t slow the mystery down. The story itself has been fine and doesn’t feel slowed down, but the murder mystery promised hasn’t really had a chance to be at the forefront. Now with the murderer slowing the investigation I have to wonder how much of the murder story the author came up with before starting this story. Her various Star Trek novels are all I’m aware.

I am enjoying the story. It’s a good story. It’s just for a murder story there’s more character than murder. Then again, I’m not much of a murder detective novel reader and only picked this up because I enjoyed the sequel book, so maybe this is how things usually go. Maybe some of the novelists or detective novel readers in the readership can tell me where I’m being a moron to fill out the homepage. That’s accomplished and I think the fire’s out, so let’s see what our heroes come up with next.

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