The Ashes of Eden

I'm rather torn about how high to rate this book, so I'll settle for 4,5 stars. I absolutely loved it, even though Kirk's escapades seemed a bit too much from time to time (particularly the metioning of so many of his female conquests. I know it was a thing on the tv show, but really...)
That being said, it also was a beautiful depiction of Kirk's character, his ideals, and the friendship between him and his crewmates.
It almost felt autobiographical in parts, as parrallells certainly can be drawn between Shatners experiences at cons and Kirk's reflections on his fame. All in all it was a heartfelt novel, and a must-read for fans of TOS. ( )

The first 'post-Generations' Star Trek story involving Kirk. This book was the best of the Shatner-verse books, in my opinion, due to the fact that the majority of the story takes place before the events in Generations. The story starts where Generations ends, but then goes into a retrospective story and stays there until the final pages, where it picks up, again at Kirk's grave site on Veridian III. It leaves you on a cliff-hanger, which entices you to continue on with the next Shatner-verse book. Unfortunately, it goes downhill after this book. ( )

Carino, classica avventura in stile Trek, non per niente scritta da Shatner (se pur in collaborazione). ( )

I would be willing to believe the rumors that this novel was ghosted, except that the writing level and the overemphasis on Kirk's heroism fits my idea of William Shatner's self-image. The stacatto writing style is in perfect sync with Shatner's acting style. The story is a fairly standard "last adventure" for the crew, and Shatner apparently tries to use the story to throw in some half-hearted apologies to his fellow actors for his spoiled-star treatment of them in earlier years. ( )