The Last Best Hope

You know when the review starts with the lines “I wanted to like this book......” It ain't going to be good! Well, I did genuinely want to like this book, that is why I bought it, but I didn't.

The book charts Picard's unimaginable task of relocating the Romulan Population before their star goes supernova and destroys their galaxy. Throughout the story, Picard has to battle the Romulans and their utter psychopathic need for secrecy, the beauroracy of the federation and the growing anti romulan sentiments on earth that could ultimately lead to the collapse of the federation.

Throughout the book, there is a recurring quote used to highlight the scale of the task - “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!” And I have got to say that is how I tackled this book. I just couldn't get on with it. I didn't like most of the characters, couldn't care less about the impending disaster and thanked the lord when the end came.

The characters that annoyed me the most were Bruce Maddox and Agnes. When he finally tells her at the end of the book to “Shut the f-bomb up”, I thought, “I know it's not nice, but I couldn't agree with you more”

There are some interesting insights into Romulan culture that I quite liked, but for me I couldn't wait till the impending supernova finally blew up.