And I can never get enough. Right off the heels of finishing
Star Trek Vanguard: Summon the Thunder, I've moved on to book three of the series,
Reap the Whirlwind.
How is it so far? Not bad. 49 pages in and I can already tell that the Klingons are going to have a bigger role than they did in the previous two books, which I have exactly zero problems with. I'm hyped to see the USS
Sagittarius (the ship on the cover) as the focus of the novel because I love the
Archer-class scout ships. David Mack has
a casting list on his website and his choice of Sir Ben Kingsley as Captain Adelard Nassir really helps with the visualization. Speaking of David Mack and casting, there's a nice reference to Kevin Smith's movie
Clerks in chapter 2, which features two ensigns from the USS
Lovell who are both named after the two main actors from
Clerks. I didn't catch it until one of them said Dante Hicks' famous line from the movie "I wasn't even supposed to be here today." Great movie, by the way.
Reap the Whirlwind revolves around the Jinoteur System which in
Summon the Thunder, was identified as the source of a mysterious carrier wave that caused havoc with Vanguard's computer systems (as told in a short story,
Early Distant Warning) and its relation to both the Meta-Genome and the mysterious Shedai. It's early, but I think this one is going to be another great read.
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