Beach Reading VI
May. 10th, 2009 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddI read half of Crucible: Spock: The Fire and the Rose on the final day at the beach Friday, and finished it on the flight home yesterday (also got through almost half of Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering on the flight as well)
Has anyone else commented that the Crucible trilogy is as close to Star Trek romances as we've ever gotten? I'll post more about this after I finish Wandering, but I just wanted to get that idea out there.
I'm sad to have to say that I didn't like Rose nearly as much as I liked Shadows. The notion that Spock would undergo Kolinahr again following the "death" of Kirk just didn't feel right to me. More than that; it felt very, very wrong. And then the idea that the woman he'd dated a couple of times before his second Kolinahr was still available -- practically waiting around for him -- a couple of decades later when he came to his senses simply snapped the bounds of credulity.
Spock's experiences with Kolinahr and V'ger, and then with death & resurrection, had resolved his issues. Putting him back into an emotional place where he forgot all the progress he'd made felt forced and manipulative. It did not feel true to the character. I can't see him forgetting everything he'd labored to achieve over decades after Kirk's death.
I was hoping through most of the book that the author would spend some time explaining why Spock had undertaken Kolinahr the first time -- after the 5-year mission. That's never made sense to me, and still doesn't. I recognize the unfairness of critiquing a book because it isn't the story I wanted, but I really wish George had written a book about THAT decision instead... Sorry!
The Fire and the Rose is very well-written -- DRGIII couldn't write bad prose if he tried -- but the premise of the book simply didn't work for me. Unlike Crucible: McCoy: Provenancve of Shadows, in which every detail felt right, every revelation about McCoy's life felt like something I'd always known, The Fire and the Rose presented Spock doing things that I simply couldn't imagine him doing at that time in his life.
Has anyone else commented that the Crucible trilogy is as close to Star Trek romances as we've ever gotten? I'll post more about this after I finish Wandering, but I just wanted to get that idea out there.
I'm sad to have to say that I didn't like Rose nearly as much as I liked Shadows. The notion that Spock would undergo Kolinahr again following the "death" of Kirk just didn't feel right to me. More than that; it felt very, very wrong. And then the idea that the woman he'd dated a couple of times before his second Kolinahr was still available -- practically waiting around for him -- a couple of decades later when he came to his senses simply snapped the bounds of credulity.
Spock's experiences with Kolinahr and V'ger, and then with death & resurrection, had resolved his issues. Putting him back into an emotional place where he forgot all the progress he'd made felt forced and manipulative. It did not feel true to the character. I can't see him forgetting everything he'd labored to achieve over decades after Kirk's death.
I was hoping through most of the book that the author would spend some time explaining why Spock had undertaken Kolinahr the first time -- after the 5-year mission. That's never made sense to me, and still doesn't. I recognize the unfairness of critiquing a book because it isn't the story I wanted, but I really wish George had written a book about THAT decision instead... Sorry!
The Fire and the Rose is very well-written -- DRGIII couldn't write bad prose if he tried -- but the premise of the book simply didn't work for me. Unlike Crucible: McCoy: Provenancve of Shadows, in which every detail felt right, every revelation about McCoy's life felt like something I'd always known, The Fire and the Rose presented Spock doing things that I simply couldn't imagine him doing at that time in his life.
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Date: 2009-05-10 02:57 pm (UTC)SPOILERIFIC!
Date: 2009-05-10 03:59 pm (UTC)If you get around to reading it, I'd love to know what you think.