Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: 8 A Time To Heal“:
A Time to Heal is the eighth book of the A Time To series, and the conclusion of a duology consisting of this book and the previous one, A Time to Kill.
While I have enjoyed the A Time To series overall, there is one aspect of the format that has been bugging me. The stories themselves are interesting and engaging, but in previous duologies, the stopping point between books one and two have seemed arbitrary. Usually, there’s some sort of cliffhanger, and it feels like “Part I” and “Part II” of a Star Trek television episode. This may indeed have been what the authors were going for, but it irks me when a book doesn’t feel like a complete story, even when it’s an installment in a series.
However, A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal do not exhibit this issue. The story in this novel is very different from A Time to Kill. While the story does indeed continue in Heal, the pacing and atmosphere of both books are very different. And each novel feels like a complete story, which I was very appreciative of.
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