***** (1 out of 5 stars)
String Theory Book 3: Evolution
By Heather Jarman
Right off the bat, let me just say I hate it when they switch writers within a trilogy. The style changes, the characterization changes and the focus shifts. It's a bad idea. The most disappointing part of this book was that I actually enjoyed the first two in the series. By the time I got to this turd I was already two books into the story, so I had to suffer through the rest of this book. It couldn't be helped. Anyway, there were too many seperate storylines; too much focus on bland, original characters... just too much. The author tried to throw so many different things in this book that even the interesting plotlines were trimmed down to fit everything in.
The main problem here is that if feels like a mismatch of ideas thrown onto the ceiling to see what would stick: Q... Kes... The Caretaker... sick Janeway ...missing Doctor ...Harry Kim/Alien romance ...Seven's stuggles to feel human ...original characters galore... and so on. It resulted in a crowded, uneven Voyager novel and an unsatisfying, "Well I'm glad everything's okay, guys" conclusion to an otherwise decent series. My Nugget: Skip this series. The first two are fun, but not worth the anticlimactic climax.
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