Spirit Walk, Book Two: Enemy of My Enemy

The book is good. I really would love to read more about the new crew in details that will come out in the near future. I believe that next book that comes out, would be more of a thriller ride. I also would love to see seven of nine come back to Voyager. They need her. Voyager needs a character that stands out and something different from all the characters.

Call me crazy but I LOVE Voyager. I love the characters, Seven of Nine, Janeway, B'Elanna, Tom Paris, the Holo Doctor, Chakotay, Harry Kim and the rest. And I love the ACTION that made Voyager more exciting than DS9 or TNG. And boy do I MISS Voyager. So I am truly grateful to Christie Golden for continuing the series. This book takes Voyager and her crew back out into space where they belong. Some of it is slow going, especially Book 1 of the series. But the last half of Book 2 is exciting and action packed. If you love Voyager like I do, BUY THIS BOOK! Thank you Christie Golden! Please write MORE Voyager books!

Captain Chakotay of Voyager and his sister, shaman-trained Sekaya, begin this duology's second installment where we left them at the first book's end. Imprisoned on the apparently abandoned colony world Loran II's surface, in the hands of the supposedly dead Cardassian scientist Crell Moset. Delivered there by a shapeshifting "Founder" who has spent years trapped in the form of a respected Starfleet officer, who now assumes Chakotay's identity and orders Voyager's immediate departure for Earth. Which will leave the real captain and his sister to die in Moset's laboratory, whether from the Butcher of Bajor's horrific research or afterward - because Moset can't afford to let witnesses live. Meanwhile, Admiral Kathryn Janeway's mission to persuade several seceding worlds to remain in the United Federation of Planets is not going well. On the Klingon sacred moon Boreth, B'Elanna Torres continues researching her baby daughter's heritage as the fulfillment of ancient prophecy, after her husband Tom Paris joins Janeway's mission; and on Earth, concert musician and Starfleet spy Libby Webber makes a discovery that's connected to both the admiral's diplomatic assignment and the events unfolding aboard Voyager. This is Golden at her Trek-author best. The story's threads come together in ways that surprise the reader without blindsiding, and the characters we Voyager fans already know so well behave exactly as they should. The new characters Golden introduced in her first Voyager re-launch duology manage to play major parts without making me resent the pages they occupy, although I'm still not sure what she has in mind for Akolo Tare. That's one of several plot threads that aren't tied up neatly. This is fine with me, since I know more books are coming. Although Enemy of My Enemy has a satisfying conclusion, it ends with a twist that has me asking with pleasant anticipation, "But what's going to happen next?"

Well! Any of you who read my review of book one, can only think my review of book 2 would be better! And you'd be right! This was a GREAT finish to the Spirit Walk story line! My only comments are i wish they had had time to wrap up Lt. Tares story line, as well as a resolution with Chittenden & Campbell! Hopefully they will address those issues and resolve them in a later book? It certainly is a bit of a cliff hanger with regards to Bellana's story line and i hope they finally wrap up the whole Boreth/Kuva Maagh thing in the next Golden Voyager books that come out!!! It would also be nice to see Amar Kol get what's coming to her....!!! Those are my only criticisims,because quite frankly the books are just so great! I couldn't put them down until i had finished! ANY fan of Voyager or Star Trek will love these books and i highly reccomend them!