The Siege

The Siege was an excellent novel, especially considering it's the first original DS9 novel. All right, so characterization and some of the shapeshifting tricks might be a little off, but Peter David didn't have a lot to work with. But the novel keeps your attention, is interesting, and keeps fairly good characterization overall.

When DS9 first premiered I was skeptical. The humans are the aliens? Yeah, right. But then I picked up this book and everything sounded so great I couldn't hold myself back from the show. This is the first original Deep Space Nine books so naturally somethings are a little off (Odo shape shifts into Quark and other humanoid forms, a task which he cannot do in the series). Another reviewer gave this book four stars because of the lack of accuracy, and I almost agreed with that reviewer but one has to realize that David wrote this book with almost nothing to go on. When it was written there had only been one episode of DS9! As I write this there are only a few more weeks of DS9 left, pick this book along with Fallen Heroes to continue the saga!

This was an incredibly entertaining read! Peter David expands his masterful Star Trek storytelling abilities to the Deep Space Nine universe, and the result is a powerful, suspenseful story with a touch of the trademark David humor. Having everyone join forces to stop a psycho killer is a nice break from the usual political tension between the Bajorans, Cardassians, etc. The ending is brilliant! In the unlikely event they ever make a Deep Space Nine movie, they should base it on this book!

this is probably the funniest star trek book I've ever read. like when Kira and Odo are "Hatching nifirious plot to find out what the gossip is between starfleet personel," and O'Briens majic trick and why it worked for Quark and not him. not only is it funny though, it also has action in it like the Borg ship coming through the worm whole and the people getting killed by the other Changeling. I don't want to give away the ending but the book is fun, funny, full of action, and a great book for the family

Contrary to what many previous reviewers have said, I do NOT like tons of gore. I pretty much ignored those parts. It's the way Peter David writes a story that just drew me in immediately. I absolutely loved it. Keep on 'till the end, which is hilarious