[.ca] Star Trek: Voyager - The Farther Shore (Book Two) (ISBN 0743467558)

Enjoyed these two books by C. Golden:
I am an avid Star Trek Voyager fan. I was greatly disappointed when the show concluded. Both Homecomming and The Farther Shore helped me find a bit of closure to this series that End Game did not provide. I'm especially gratified that Ms. Golden rectified the romantic relationship between Chakotay and Seven. It was a silly contrivance by the show producers. I'm glad that this problem was rectified here. I disagree with some of the other reviewers of these two books. I think Ms. Golden did an excellent job! I would vote for a Voyager movie based upon the story these two books tell. It would be a great movie and maybe provide a better ending to the show than the producers came up with! Thanks Christie! I hope you have further ideas for continuing the Voyager series and characters. They don't have to be lost in the Delta Quadrant to continue the story! Thanks!

Thrills continue:
I've rated most of this book along with my review for Homecoming. In this book Libby's intentions and allegiance become known. For a while you really don't know if she's simply a pawn or if she's apart of the madness. I especially liked her role in the two stories. I want to add in addition that the Belanna story was nice, but I didn't like what they did there much at all. Belanna could have been used for her engineering skills instead of creating what seemed to me a story simply to remove her from the main story. This one negative however, doesn't detract from the fact that the story itself is great. I still give it 5 stars.

The Farther Shore- Best Voyager book yet by far:
First, I'll say, this was up to par with Echoes, my other favorite Voyager book, and kind of dark like Echoes... I recommend both. When you read the Farther Shore, it seems like Homecoming was just a prologue, this one is where the real story begins. The story gives good detail to what's going on with each Voyager character (well, except Neelix, but that's a given). Favorite part: definatly B'Elanna's quest... which ends, well... rather sadly and.. graphicly but it's great closure. And theres a gut wrenching twist in the middle. From then on... completely suspenseful. The only bad thing, I would say... is that it lacked... *proper closure* (for a P/T fan, anyway), but left it open for more adventures.

Better than the first, but that's not saying much.:
Once again Ms. Golden places too much emphasis on secondary characters until the latter end of the book. I mean it is interesting to read about these characters, but at the same time with the Voyager TV finale leaving us wanting more I wanted the book to be more about the Voyager crew. The ending is typical, and the climax is all too predictable. The only thing I really found interesting was the revelation of the true form of one of the secondary characters.

A disappointing sequel:
I suppose that if you've read Homecoming you have no choice but to read the Farther Shore. Unfortunately, I quickly felt that I was reading this sequel out of necessity rather than for pleasure. The problem lies with Golden's emphasis on secondary characters. I'm sorry, but I didn't buy a Voyager book to read about Harry's girlfriend and all of her cohorts that Voyager's crew hasn't seen for the past 7 years, if ever, to the neglect of the crew. The plot eventually comes back around to our heroes, but by that point I was just about ready to put the book down and forget about it in favor of the Voyager DVD set. And that's a shame, considering how much I enjoyed Christie's Homecoming. Here's hoping the author's next venture follows the Homecoming model rather than that of the Farther Shore.