Take Advantage Of The Romulan Way (Star Trek, #35) Engineered By Diane Duane File Format Digital Format

bad, but a mustread for Star Trek: TOS fans anyway, This is an incredibly deep book with a plot woven intricately around Rihannsu history and culture, inescapably linked with Vulcan's past,

This story goes into a lot of detail and I have to admit that I was lost in those details, It was all utterly fascinating however I expect it will take a few rereads to sink in for me,

The purpose of the book is about illuminating The Romulan Way and the main plot seems to take up much less space, However McCoy is in fine form and the story is particularly potent and enjoyable, This is a horribly written book, fan fiction at its worst, There is honestly nothing of merit here, it is a ponderous read, like trying to run with your feet glued inside the trainers AND then glued to the ground.
YECHHHH.

Do you want to know what's really embarrassing my copy is signed by the authors,

I wonder, could I get a refund as my copy as been scribbled in

P, S. It really is signed, I am not joking, My very favorite Star Trek tiein novel, More than most, this book explores strange new worlds, seeks out new life and new civilizations, Arrhe is a great chameleon characteran adaptable foil for Ael, who's defined by her refusal to change with the times, The chapters on Romulan history and religion don't feel like they interrupt the narrativethey feel like treats, giving a Romulan perspective on Vulcans and explaining the origins of the mysticism around names, among other things.
McCoy feels very much like the show's McCoy,

Mnheisahe, the Romulan concept of honor, is in a way the real protagonist of this and "My Enemy, My Ally, " It's one of the most memorable aspects of the books and Duane makes it feel both recognizable and alien, If I have a criticism, it's that I'm unconvinced that a slaveholding society would extend its concept of honor to enslaved people, as the Romulans seem to do especially a slaveholding

society which is, you know, based super heavily on the Roman Empire.
A story where Arrhe was excluded from the demands of and respect granted by mnheisahe would be harsher but maybe more complex and nuanced, Half this book is an exercise in building out the Romulan world with language, history, politics, and society, The other half is McCoy getting to play spy by being captured and charged with capital crimes against the Romulan Empire, and interacting with a longterm plant in Romulan society along with her background, and what she has to do to maintain her cover.
Quite enjoyable and more so than I expected, A short story with a Romulan excuse me: Rihannsu civics and history lesson added in, this sequel to sitelinkMy Enemy, My Ally is more of an epilog to that story.
Ms. Duane was also working on sitelinkSpock's World released the following year, so the Vulcan/Romulan history was getting double duty, I just wish the story were better,

I can say with certainty that I haven't read this before, though I did purchase it for a complete collection of the Star Trek Pocket Books, It is followed by three more sequels in the Rihannsu series, and now I see the significance of the titles of those books, This was also a time when Star Trek the Next Generation was spinning up, and their take on Romulans was very likely influenced by these two books, Since this one is roughly half history, it makes sense,

That said, I would have hated rereading this as much as retaking a history course from the same professor in school, Cutting out the civics lesson, the remaining novella is just not that great, though the ending is fun to read, That said, I will very likely read the final three books, This one isn't that great on story, and it flips flops back and forth in action and time and between action and reflection/history lectures but it has great information on the history, mentality and spirituality of Vulcans as well as the formation of the "Romulans", which occurred during a major schism on Vulcan.
Highly recommended to Trekkies. This is actually a reread from decades ago, Back in the day, this was my favorite of the two because I loved the Romulan history chapters so much, This time I slogged painfully through those same chapters, Im not sure what changed, Me, obviously. Three because I still liked it even though I slogged in places, While I adore Duane's worldbuilding and the characters she paints, the two stories didn't gel together at all, ended up being very separate, I'm also left with questions like why McCoy, what was the plan even, Lt Rock McGuffin again, etc, A decent enough read, exceptional in some ways my life for her Rihannsu as canon!!, but ultimately unsatisfying to me, Main storyline:stars. Recounting of the history of the Rihannsu:stars,

The main storyline is about a secret agent in deep cover from the Federation at the Romulan home world who for the last two years had stopped sending reports back to the Federation.
McCoy gets himself purposefully captured by the Romulans so that he can make contact with her, Storyline was kind of weak and hard to follow at times and the climax was kind of hokey,

But

The descriptions of the history of how the Rihannsu or Romulan people came about as an breakout from the Vulcans and the development of their culture over the centuries was very imaginative and fascinating to read about but did not seem to tie into the main storyline.


Almost like two separate books just mashed together,

I just received this book as an early Christmas present from the amazing and wonderful sitelinkBranwen! She recently convinced me to start watching Star Trek, and I have been loving it.
This book was a perfect gift, since she knows "Balance of Terror" with the Romulans has been my favorite episode so far, . . plus how much I love the ornerybutsogoodatbeingornery Dr, McCoy! :D
A fantastic novel that also serves as a excellent sociological text about the birth of the Romulan Star Empire, It's quite a departure from a standard novel in that Bones McCoy is the only regular crew member you interact with, Moreover, much of the action takes places through the eyes of a Starfleet sociologist on a deep cover assignment masquerading as a Romulan, Diane Duane remains one of the best Trek novelists, Duane's second Romulan excuse me: Rihannsu novel is also, or maybe more of, a follow up to Spock's World,

Like that book, which dived into the history of the most prominent member of the Federation after Earth, every other chapter of this book gives the history of the Romulans, starting with their original split from Vulcan society, and selfimposed exile among the.


This alternates with a far better, but very unusual plot centered around the head servant of a Rihannsu household that has seen better days, Other things intrude on this setting, including Ael from the first book near the end, but the only regular cast member who has a presence is McCoy, Rihannsu and Federation covert plots get involved, and what starts as a fairly sedate focus gets shaken to pieces, I don't buy some of how the Federation op is put together, but once that's accepted, everything els falls into place very well,

As such, much of the book is fairly actionless, and is a decidedly slow burn, Thankfully, the characters are welldone, and keep a creaky opening going, Things heat up over the course of the book, for a fairly epic conclusion, featuring, among other things, 'a good ol' southern fillibuster', Duane doesn't do as much violence to the setting as some other novels, but this is an event that would go down in the history books, This book contains a great Romulancentric story about espionage, It also contains a thorough, wellexplained history lesson,

Unfortunately, it tells each of these stories in a backandforth seesaw manner that does a disservice to both,

The espionage story is excellent, It could easily have been expanded upon further and been its own standalone novel,

The history lesson, while inventive and descriptive, was was often dry and even boring, It would have been better served to have been told as an actual narrative story and also been its own standalone novel, It could have made for fascinating reading!

The spy story, while both interesting and exciting, was also understandably complex, Many of the characters had very similarly constructed unpronounceable names, When getting interrupted every single chapter by an entirely unrelated history lesson, it made it impossible to remain firmly ensconced in the story,

I often found my eyes glazing over while reading the history lesson chapters and had to set the book aside for a while, All in all, it took meweeks to wade through, Just at the time the history lesson would get interesting, the chapter would end and we would be back to the spy story that I had forgotten about and I'd have to remember which character was which all over again.


Just about the time the spy story got really good and I had the characters straight my head again, that chapter would end and we would have to go back to the history lesson.


There were certain elements of the history lesson that became important in the story, but I suspect these elements could have been introduced in a much more cohesive way rather than continually interrupting the plot.


I can't fault the actual writing, inventiveness, or thoroughness, but the structure just didn't work for me, With apologies to the legendary Diane Duane,stars, Definitely not my favorite of the series, They are a race of warriors, a noble people to whom honor is all, They are cousin to the Vulcan, ally to the Klingon, and Starfleet's most feared and cunning adversary, They are the Romulans, and for eight years, Federation Agent Terise LoBrutto has hidden in their midst, Now the presence of a captured Starfleet officer forces her to make a fateful choice between exposure and the chance to escape: maintain her cover or save the life of Dr.
Leonard McCoy

Here, in a startlingly different adventure, is the truth behind one of the most fascinating alien races ever created in "Star Trek" the Romulans, The Romulan Way is widely considered one of the best classic Trek novels for good reason, Written before Star Trek: The Next Generation began to form a more solid canon interpretation of the Romulans, the novel gives an insight into the culture and history of a race millennia old, similar to Duane's treatment of the Vulcans in sitelinkSpock's World.
The Romulans are rendered in careful detail as a powerful, passionate, honorable, and highly independent people who are at the same time extremely distrustful of outsiders and deeply isolationist.
In order to prevent a civil war on Vulcan between the followers of Surak, who prized logic and restraint, and the followers of the Romulan founder S'task, who valued passion and power, the Romulans left to find a new home, and invented their own language and religion along the way.


Interwoven with this account of Romulan history is a framing story involving Dr, McCoy's capture and imprisonment for war crimes by the Romulans an incident planned by Starfleet in order to send McCoy to investigate a deepcover Federation spy on ch'Rihan Romulus whom they fear has "gone native.
" We see the current state of the Star Empire in a politically fractious place after the events of the preceding novel, sitelinkMy Enemy, My Ally, in which a highranking Romulan officer betrays her own people to prevent governmentsponsored atrocities through the eyes of both McCoy and the spy, Arrhae, who is masquerading as a servant in a Romulan noble house.
Arrhae born Terise HaleakalaLoBrutto still recalls her loyalty to the Federation, but has grown to love the Romulan people and worlds as well, and the tension between these serves to drive much of her story.


As usual, Diane Duane is a master of her craft she writes both humans and aliens with believability and fluidity, in a distinctive, lyrical language, The characters always feel like real people, rather than cardboard cutouts, Her cowriter and husband Peter Morwood is as skilled an author to this day I can't tell who wrote what, which I suppose must be a good thing,

Most of all, both of these authors love Star Trek, and it shows, TOS:: the Romulan Way

Continuing my never ending Trek Lit journey, I come to the Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, I very much enjoyed my Enemy, My Ally and it was an awesome, action packed book that left me with a smile on my face, The more and more I think about it, the more and more I like it, I had originally rated it an,/but Im gonna give it a perfect score of/, The concept of it is just so much fun and so good,

Anyway, onto to the Romulan Way, I enjoyed this book even though it was a more slower, character driven book, This book also gave me what I wanted, which was a deep dive into Romulan history and culture, It was incredibly interesting to learn how the Sundering happened and how the exiled Vulcans established themselves on Romulus and Remus, Learning about their language, system of government and more was exactly what I asked for, It reminded me a lot of Spocks World which goes into depth about the history of Vulcan, I slightly prefer that book in this case, as its more detailed but this is still a great book,

Terise is a very interesting character as she flips the idea of a sleeper agent on its head, Instead of still having her original identity along with her Romulan identity, shes suppressed it and would rather be a Romulan, But McCoy changes that and also any book that features McCoy prominently scores brownie points with me,
Anyway, this book wasnt as good as My Enemy,My Ally but still is a worthy follow up to it,/.