Elena. reviewed Star Trek: Sarek by A. C. Crispin (Star Trek)
Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he …
My eyemuscles weren't powerful enough to keep a straight and beautiful pokerface.
1 star
The amount of eyerolling, sighing, facepalming, and "Oh god, what!? No!" and similar commenting I did was too high to count. I thought about giving this 2 stars, but the longer it went on the more frustrated I became. So 1 star is all I can give.
A lot of this book is a regurgitation of scenes and quotes from TOS episodes and films. It sometimes feels like a badly re-enacted clip show. It's just too much. By a lot. The part about Amanda dying (no spoiler, it literally says on the blurb) left me cold, and her diary entries are beyond juvenile. (I am an avid journaler myself. A journal should never ever be censored or edited. Be as juvenile as you want in yours. I know that I am, and it is very cathartic. But I don't think it makes for good literature.) The part about Peter's stay with the Klingons was the most eyeroll inducing of it all. Good grief!
I think the basic story about KEHL and a possible conspiracy behind it, sounds interesting. The execution however did not satisfy me one bit.
I acknowledge, respect, and appreciate the narrator's skill for producing accents and speech patterns. His Sarek was excellent, I also enjoyed his McCoy. However, most of the rest I found a bit too much. Speaking of the narrator: It is not Mark Lenard (as even stated on Simon & Schuster's website), but Nick Sullivan.
