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Sanctuary (Star Trek, Book 61)

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This was an excellent book from an excellent writer, but it had it's problems. The greatest problem was the characterization. Kirk and Spock at least didn't sound the way they should, and although this was fairly easy to ignore at a story-development standpoint, it annoyed the hell out of me. The plot was interesting, altough a bit predictable at times, but it was nice to see original characters to play out important parts in the story, particularly since the main characters were no else than the same old and predictable Kirk, Spock an McCoy. And as for the Senites, I think much was gained by the use of them, an I think they eventually proved to be one of the main intriques of the story. All in all an entertaining read wich I reckomend.

Vornholt does an excellent job of holding the reader's attention. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! If you want an action packed adventure, this is it!

This book was well-written, with a goodly amount of excitement, had some interesting characters among the non-regulars, and did a passable if not great job of capturing the personalities of the regulars. The main plot situation seemed a bit forced; I find it hard to believe that Kirk & company would have gotten themselves into that situation, and equally hard to believe that the way out that they found was truly the best solution that they could find, but all in all it was an enjoyable if unremarkable read. As usual, John Vornholt did a fine job on the mechanics of writing, but the idea wasn't really one of his best.

I've read over 100 star trek books and this is my favorite, or at list one of them The story is surprising, the descriptions of local life are very well writen, you can feel you are there.

What is you were trapped on a planet, with no hope of ever getting off. You'd make yourself comfortable, right? I mean the planet does have all the food you can eat, a house will be built for you and everything else is free. So wouldn't you want to stay? Well not Kirk, Spock and McCoy who accidently got caught on Sanctuary while chasing a pirate. They try to get off, for good reason. The people of the planet, round up all the men and turn them into hard working unisex beings. Yet, any ship with engine power that goes into the sky gets disenigrated by the sheild. So how do they get off? Read their amazing adventure. I do wish that there was deeper character development, since Kirk, Spock and McCoy spent so much time together, but this is still good.

Star Trek- The Original Series: Sanctuary written by John Vornholt is a Kirk, Spock, and McCoy book as the primary characters in this action-packed, well-written adventure.

The book starts off as the U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to capture a very dangerous criminal named Auk Rex. As the Enterprise pursues Auk Rex, they are taken to an unexplored section of space, to a planet named Sanctuary. Sanctuary is a world that is known very little about, but what is known is that it is a last refuge for the persecuted, but that sketchy description is about all that is known.

As Auk Rex flees to the surface of the planet, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are in hot pursuit in a shuttlecraft... now the plot thickens. Our heros prepare to leave the planet and find they can Not, no matter what they try. What they find out is they entered a planet size "Roach Motel," you can enter but you can't leave. Everything is provoded for then food, water, shelter, and clothing, but your freedom to leave has been taken away. Later our trio finds out another deadly secret about this mysterious planet called Sanctuary and it has become imperative that they must leave.

This is a fact moving well-written novel that will pique your interest and how will the Federation's finest work their magic and escape. You will engrossed in the story from beginning to end as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy try to leave a planet from which there is no escape.

I found it cool that they mentioned the gorn in here and i liked the balloon seuqence.

I picked my title for two reasons.

#1 - The book describes a legendary planet called 'Sanctuary' - a place where any and all fugutives are welcomed and spared from any further persecution. Unfortunately, McCoy, Kirk and Spock discover that once you come to Sanctuary you can never leave again. Thus the main challenge of the book - how do our intrepid three break out and get back to the 'Enterprise'?

#2 - I used to be a gigantic reader of Star Trek books. In the 80's and very early 90's I had a rather large collection. In fact, my cousin and I had a complete collection if we put ours together. I was quite the fan. I ran across this book and picked it up for old times sake and discovered that 'You can't go home again'. The old magic just was not there. Not that I dislike the characters or even the basic plot idea. It was the way the book was written:

-The supporting characters are one-dimensional cutouts.

-There's no character development.

-The planet is apparently covered with the same plantlife since they encounter it in nearly every outdoors scene.

-I found myself being drawn into the last scene until I realized that my own fear of heights was making me imagine it much, much better than it was written.

Probably the last of the series for me. It's not the fault of the series - I have moved on to greener literary pastures and expect more.

I give this one a grade of D+.

I received the book on 12-18-08 and it was in excellent condition.

David.

I can't actually write a review for this kindle edition of Star Trek, Sanctuary. I bought it in April 2010 and I didn't look at it right away, it was my fault. Later I looked at it and it wasn't even Star Trek, Sanctuary. It was Angel, Sanctuary and I'm not interested reading it. Amazon gave me a wrong Kindle edition, I trusted them, so, I didn't check it right way and it was too late to even return it. I'll tell you,folks, don't buy this unless you are sure this is the Star Trek book, Sanctuary by John Vornholt. The one I received in my ipod touch was Angel, Sanctuary by Jeff Mariotte.
But, thing is, how can we be sure what we ordered and downloaded ebook is the book we ordered . . . from antry.