Jarrah's Reviews > The Last Best Hope

Prequel licensed novels can be really challenging because they aren't often permitted to add a lot beyond what we see on the TV show or movie, for fear of limiting or spoiling future plotlines. Luckily the talents of Una McCormack have been brought to bear on this first Star Trek: Picard tie-in novel and she keeps it engaging and often suspenseful even though we know where it's ultimately headed.

As she takes us through the Romulan refugee resettlement mission, McCormack gets inside the heads of Picard and Raffi, as well as minor characters that turn up on the show like Clancy and Zani, and a slew of original characters whose perspectives shine light on various aspects of the crisis. I particularly appreciated the way McCormack takes us through the political dynamics on the Federation and Romulan sides, astutely mirroring many dynamics in our world today.

We'll be discussing this book in Women at Warp book club in April so I won't go into spoilers or further details. In the meantime definitely read this book and I hope you'll join our discussion in our Goodreads group!.