Star Trek Enterprise – Romulan War – To brave the storm

Ok so what fees like an eternity since the last one was released checking back i did my review on it in 2009 we then had to wait for 2 years to actually find out what happens in the book and I had forgotten some elements of what had happened in the first book.

This is the second and final book in this romulan war, I found this almost to be a book in two halves the first half was all about enterprise still being out of the war making friends and taking names and the last part of the book is more about just total warfare. and to be honest I did not really enjoy the first half of the book that much. where as my intrest was more engaged in the latter half.

What the author tries to do first of all is have the story of enterprise making alliances and seeking help on behalf of earth in the war and it also hasthe sub plot with tucker as an undercover spy, now i really did not like the tukcer story line that much and i often found parts of it to be confusing and unnecessary, where as with the Enterprise searching for friends felt bit did work although I would have preferred more action or even to bring home the realities of war even just todo the simple things that were done in ds9 when sisko would be sad because he found out someone he went to the academy with died. or the realities of rationing and enterprise not always having enough parts etc.

However i did like many of the battle scenes in the book even though the last battle in the book felt a little bit cliched in the nature with one massive battle in a solar system, it works well dramatically but it still feels a little predictable. and to be honest I did guess at what was going to happen but it still made it feel exciting.

So I would have like to have seen more of the hardships that a war like this would have brought on earth and also less of the spying game part, perhaps i would have like to have seen also the ending to have been more about the recovery of the conflict it just felt it jumped to one of those post 40 year parties which i really didnt enjoy.

So in conclusion if you are interested in the romulan war and want to find out what happens in this then by all means go a head and give this series ago however by all means the stories and the way the conflict was displayed was not perfect. 5/10