I went from "Picard being an archeologist - just the novel I wanted!", to "He's so irrational, WTF?!", to "Now it's getting interesting", to "Oh my, what roller coaster". This book took a long time until I could like it. Before that I was confused and annoyed by Picard's behaviour after meeting Ariel. But it all made sense in the end. I loved the little cameos and first looks at a whole row of characters that we know from screen.

I gave it three stars because the time frame is so long that a compact story is probably impossible to tell. And I prefer compact stories instead of ones that are stretched out over the span of years and years with several big time jumps in between.

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