The last best hope

Hardcover

Published March 8, 2020 by Gallery Books.

ISBN:
978-1-9821-3944-5
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4 stars (14 reviews)

A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard—widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction.

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4 stars

As a prequel story, it leads—as it must—to the terrible down note that begins the series, which results in a disappointing conclusion here. The book itself is reasonably well-written, and attempts to illuminate the backstories of some of the new characters that populate the series. Somewhat inexplicably, unless I glossed over it somewhere, there's no mention of Laris until the epilogue, which seems a glaring omission.

Review of 'The Last Best Hope' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Good book. It was weird knowing how it ends - it makes you anticipate it with every chapter. It ends the only way it could. It fleshed out some characters and you get an idea of what Picard has gone through. The author did a good job of capturing what Picard is all about. I'm hoping for a sequel but it is fine just on its own.

Review of 'The last best hope' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I had a tough time getting through this only from the perspective that it was like you look in your full closet and then say I have nothing to wear - I have lots of audiobooks I haven't listened to yet, and needed something for while I'm working, so I went with this after doing a fair amount of changing my mind. LOL I was finding it boring, but I know most of that was because I wasn't in the right mood for it. But I kept going because I wanted to know the details on how Starfleet/the Federation/Picard ended up where they ended up in that first episode of the show. And this did that. Picard and Rafi had a great relationship, well, til the end of course... we see how the synths are created (and why they aren't called androids - that was one of those small things …

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