VENDETTA (Peter David) - March 21/12

This entertaining Star Trek book takes an awfully long time to get going, as David opens the novel with a flashback into Picard's Starfleet Academy days and a prolonged sequence involving a planet invaded by the Borg. And the rest of the book feels just as long in parts; it's billed as a "giant novel" and one can't shake the feeling that David felt pressure to pad out the narrative to justify it. Still, it's entertaining and the Borg remain one of the Star Trek world's most compelling antagonists. The climactic stuff was a little over-described for my liking but I ultimately enjoyed the book. *** out of ****