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Rating:  -
I was looking forward to this book. I knew it hadn't been well received, but I thought I might like it.
Sadly, I couldn't even finish it.
A writer in a stand alone novel has to get the reader to care about the characters. In a star trek novel, that caring can be taken for granted, why would anyone pick up the book if they didn't care?
So the only thing the writer has to worry about is the plot, and I have no idea what the plot of this was supposed to be about. It was confused and confusing. I wondered if the author was familiar at all with the DS9 world.
She even managed to make me not care a fig about any of the characters. Characters I've known for years!!
About half way through part one, I realized I didn't know or care what was happening and didn't care if the entire space station blew up killing all the characters.
I'd give this book zero stars, but that option is not available.
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I'm sorry, but I would have to agree with some other readers on the fact that this book was a waste. I dislike cliff hangers, and I dislike them more when nothing is resolved in the next book. The background of the two characters could have been summed up in a few pages. There was no forward motion. I'm left in the same spot I was after Warpath. Just skip this one and wait til next year. You won't miss anything.
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My husband wanted this book, so I looked for it, ordered it, and got it within the week. The covers looks amazing. He hasn't started reading it yet, but I know he can't wait.
Rating:  -
The good - I really enjoyed the writing. I'm not familiar with Olivia Woods, but I thought she had a pretty good handle on the characters and the story flowed fairly well.
Part one followed up nicely on the events in Warpath, but as others have noted, the story is much too short. I wanted more.
Part two follows Iliana Ghemor's journey from artist to member of the Obsidian Order to Kira's replacement. This part of the book has a major hurdle to overcome, because as other reviewers have noted, most of us want more of the main story, not Iliana's origin. So it was hard to start this side without a negative attitude, but the more I got into the story, the more I enjoyed it. It's a good look at the cruelty of Dukat and why Iliana wasn't subsituted for Kira (although that is actually also answered in the first part, but explored in more detail here). It's also a good behind the scenes look at Cardassian policies and politics.
The Bad: It's been a long wait to only get 130 pages or so of the main story. And according to the psiphiboards, it will be a long wait until we get the follow up novels "The Soul Key" and "The Never-Ending Sacrifice," which won't come out until August and September 2009.
Overall: Short, but good, and a must read if you're a fan of the DS9 novels.
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Years after Kira's surgical alteration by the Obsidian Order to resemble Iliana Ghemor, the implications of that mission resurface as Iliana is back, but there are two identities conflicting in her. Likewise, Kira's Mirror universe counterpart is dead thanks to Iliana, and the Mirror Iliana has crossed over to stop her. The undercover mission that Iliana was initiated, but something went tragically wrong. Something that only becomes apparent after reading Fearful Symmetry.
It was worth the wait and far too compelling at times to put down.
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