BW Media Spotlight

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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.

Does Dana have ulterior plans? Well, she’s Dana so the odds favor it. Last time she let slip something about going into space but the way she said it makes me think it’s not just about seeing the remaining Zentraedi up on the old factory satellite, where we’re headed this chapter.

I’m wondering if maybe there wasn’t too much backstory last chapter. Obviously there are things that need to be established but a good use of backstory is to establish a history, maybe making someone curious to see these other stories in the novels and comics to see this “expanded universe” part of Robotech, but when done wrong actually loses the audience instead. I think we know what we need to about the otherwise unchronicled years but given what’s about to happen I’m expecting more talk about the Malcontent Uprisings, a period I know only a little about because I didn’t know there were Robotech comics until the Academy run and this is my first novel. Let’s see if we get a good balance this time.

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