BW Media Spotlight

Chapter By Chapter 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 read-along book club.

We’re about 1/3rd into the book, the twelfth chapter, and the investigation is only just starting. Last chapter Jake Cardigan finally met his new boss, Walter Bascom, and got the latest information on the man and daughter he’s trying to find, who may have a new weapon in the war against the digital drug Tek. Somehow I don’t think the book is quite ready to stop showing us how in The Future they are but at least the story is finally moving forward past showing off. It’s about time.

The question I have at this stage is what role will the ex-wife and son play in this story or is that set-up for a future story. So much of what we have has been more worldbuilding than plot, and while I’m sure Shatner was hoping for a series of novels (which we do  now have) it made the same mistake as Op Center in that it was more interested in setting up the series (when it wasn’t setting up The Future) than in moving the plot along. And yet Tekwar has still managed to move the story forward more at this stage of the book than Op-Center did. So let’s see what direction the story is going to take…because when we ended things Jake had just been kidnapped by a robo-cabbie

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