Star Trek The Next Generation #24: Nightshade Book

I read these books (ST:NG series) because they are light, fun and familiar. In other words, I'm not expecting great literature from these books and I read them exactly for that reason.

However, this particular book, "Nightshade" was a pretty poor example of ST:NG books. I did not enjoy this book for the most part. The dialogue, for one, was terrible. The characters often repeated the same things over and over again. Furthermore, some of the dialogue seemed totally the opposite of what I'd expect from a character. For example, Dr. Crusher telling a race of people that their belief system was "horrific" and "terrible" because they believed in going down with the ship. Now, does that sound like something an woman, educated in the treatment of multiple alien lifeforms from multiple alien cultures who has sworn to uphold the prime directive would say. Awesome bedside manner, Dr. Crusher.

The descriptions of locations got pretty boring and demonstrated LAZINESS on the part of the author. My favorite descriptive sentence was something along the lines of "The air felt cool and wet, brushing against Troi's face like cool fingers." I get it...the air was cool. You couldn't have found a different word to use that sentence other than cool? It's called a thesaurus.

So, in other words...this was a frivolous read that I took on vacation to entertain me. I did feel somewhat entertained but this is not a book I'd recommend to anyone.