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daddytodd ([personal profile] daddytodd) wrote2009-05-07 04:44 pm

Beach Reading V

Today 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.

[identity profile] altf4ljdrama.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Cool, this was in stock at the local library so I put it on hold.