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This book was the novelization of the original V miniseries, and its sequel miniseries "The Final battle." The 80s series I devoured on Netflix like a decade ago and recently did the same with the 21st century reboot on Tubi. When I wanted to read the novels I had planned on skipping the novelzation and going into the 1985 sequel as I already knew this story, but eventually went ahead anyway. I'm glad I did. So much of the story was unfamiliar to me that I needed to stay up way too late to find what happens next. I don't think I've ever finished 400 pages in less than a week before. I'm not sure if there were many changes from the TV Mini-series, or if it had just been that long that I'd forgotten. The most memorable scenes were still there, but the love for each other while fighting interstellar fascism is felt more deeply than I had expected. 5 stars highly recommend. Don't need to watch the show to appreciate but will be worth it either before or after.

Ready Player One is one of the greatest books I ever read. As such the sequel is likely disappoint. Cline's writing is still spell-binding and leads one wanting to turn the page. The sequel claims to start only a few days after the end of the previous, but so much of the world has changed, like Artimus now hating Z.

Cline tries to get the magic of Haladay's contest again in the quest for the siren's soul. But while Holiday's contest took years to complete, Anarch gives our protagonist only hours to get it done. The number of times that the characters feel free to joke and guess the outcome of an invent doesn't seem believable at a time they also are fighting for the survival of much of the human race with less than 12 hours to complete it.

That being said the story is still very good, and the "continue" section (e.g. epiloge) gives a great hop for the atheist as to a chance for eternal life. I try not to get my self-righteous Christian hat on.

Regardless I highly recommend this, but only after you've read the first, and feel free to skip the movie.

Wow! George has always been one of my favorite Star Trek authors but this blew me away.

The book begins seconds before the previous novel ended. U.S.S. Robinson exits the worm whole to find explosions galore and Sisko may never be the same again.

It's certainly an odd story though. 400 pages, only 24 chapters, but a prologue and an epilogue that make up 100 of those pages.

The Romulan praetor is committed to peace even when everything the Romulans have been doing leads the rest of the universe to believe otherwise, but she goes to great lengths to make it reality.

The leaps between the real world, the past, the wormhole are written so amazingly that something that should be incredibly confusing is even easier to follow than if it was in front of your face, and I have never had so may out loud physical emotional responses to ANY book, let alone any Star Trek book.