I was going to give a positive if hardly glowing review for this Star Trek novel but I lost the will to live somewhere around the halfway point. There are just too many character perspectives and I wasn't interested in half of them. Basically, I read these stories, which are my weakness, for the original characters, not the author's creations. Kevin Ryan offers up a fair but fawning depiction of Captain Kirk, makes the redshirts look brave and loyal and has even created an interesting Klingon character, but he stretches a minimal plot - granted, the start of a trilogy - too far. Fight scenes run for pages and descriptions get repetitive (Kirk and his hunches). Also, the formatting in my Kindle edition was atrocious, with completely different scenes running seamlessly into each other. So thanks, but I'll pass on part two, even for 99p. ( )

A Klingon is surgically altered to appear human in order to assassinate Kirk. He instead finds that humans are not the monsters he's told they are -- in fact, it seems that the Klingons making decisions are worse they say humans are -- and he has to decide what to do about it.

I noticed that on several occasions throughout this series that one Klingon character's name was substituted for another, as if the author (or maybe the editor) wasn't sure what to name these people. ( )