Beach Reading V
May. 7th, 2009 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddToday I finished Provenance of Shadows. Utterly brilliant. I don't really have much more to say -- DRGIII got under McCoy's skin and showed me an underlying truth about a character I thought I already knew EVERYTHING about.
It was one of those truths that, once laid out in detail, made me go "Of course!" I'd always known that McCoy was a lonely man, but I'd never realized how lonely he was.
Writing this book outside the common "Pocket Continuity" was a brilliant stroke. It allowed the telling of the tale exactly as it needed to be told. rankly, I wouldn't be at all distressed if the 'rest" of the continuity was retconned to fit with this.
I really loved this book.
If you haven't read this, you really should check it out. Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows, by David R. George III. It's one of the best Trek novels. Ever.
It was one of those truths that, once laid out in detail, made me go "Of course!" I'd always known that McCoy was a lonely man, but I'd never realized how lonely he was.
Writing this book outside the common "Pocket Continuity" was a brilliant stroke. It allowed the telling of the tale exactly as it needed to be told. rankly, I wouldn't be at all distressed if the 'rest" of the continuity was retconned to fit with this.
I really loved this book.
If you haven't read this, you really should check it out. Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows, by David R. George III. It's one of the best Trek novels. Ever.
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Date: 2009-05-18 04:03 am (UTC)