This was hard work and probably a lot of that was my fault, or possibly age. The premise is great, I loved the really weird aliens, the story and the characters and the nob stop game reviews, but really struggled with the plot. Maybe my memory is getting worse, but I kept getting a bit confused as to what was happening and why. It seemed that some sections wern't really fleshed out enough to help you keep up.
Really enjoyable ST adventure. more like an episode with proper dilemmas and morals from the ST universe. The only thing that let it down for me was the militarisation of some of the scenes. I may be wrong, but I can't remember ST commandos or them having hardcore military types in the series and it always seemed to be normal people having to fight (and die if you were a red shirt obviously who could definitely have done with more training!)
I've enjoyed this series and the characters and world they are set in but found this installment the least fun. The first half was a bit slow and for older readers like me who find it hard to recall all the plots and goings on in the 7 previous books felt there wasn't enough handy recaps for us, especially with it being mainly setting the second half if rhe book up. The second half came to life though and was enjoyablr, but I'd give this more 3.5 than 4 but didn't want to be mean!
A book that both captivated me and baffled me a bit. Its an enjoyable read but not a lot happens for the first half of the book and even after that it's slow and not your average space adventure. Despite this its really quite enjoyable and engrossing. I liked the characters and their back stories and the fact this is more a story about a crew working day to day than a story with betrayals and stupid plot twists.
It was probably a mistake to have read Terry Pratchett's Hogather immediately prior to this as DEATH, in my view is perfect in that book.
I didn't enjoy the start much as I felt it lacked something- though not sure what - but it grew on me in the middle and I quite enjoyed it in the end, but felt the ending was a bit to vague as well.
A very enjoyable holiday romp for Max and Leon straight into an Agatha Christie country manor in complete with the requisite set of suspects for the inevitable murder that happens and naturally almost gets pinned on Leon. Always look forward toy Christmas day book from Jodi Taylor and they never disappoint.
A very good debut novel with a really interesting and gripping premise which, for me, was let down a bit by the characters behaving like they were Americans from now centuries distant. Setting this aside I really enjoyed the book but the conclusion could have been more satisfying if there isn't a follow up.