[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

Currently I'm almost half-way thru Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours. So far it's an OK read, still holding out on full judgment

Finally finished the book.

It's OK, but it didn't felt like a Star Trek book. The storytelling was OK at first but became slow and sometimes forced. Parts of the plot/storytelling didn't fit in the overall scheme of things.

Spoiler:

The whole Spock/Burnham mind meld flashback is really unnecessary and breaks the tension that the author was trying to build. Beyond the mind meld the using Spock and Burnham as plot points and trying to set the tension using characters that is "well known" in the canon, didn't work as you knew from the start that they survived, so the tension the author is trying to build is already negated

I slogged thru the last of the book, just to find how all the strings finally come together.