Rudy Josephs

Picked this up at a discount book place a while ago and finally got to read it. It's dross.

I spent most of the book wondering if there would have been any difference in the story if they were a ragtag group of fresh recruits from spy school instead of wrestlers I mean apart from the risk of being recognised by the general public and having to complete missions within three days, which I would have thought would have been reasons not to get them to work as spies. Really if this book were not released by WWE not much of the story would be different.

By the second last chapter though when John Cena, who is about to drop on to a goon whispers to himself "You can't see me" I had to facepalm.

Worse still when Austin is driving a car with Torrie, Batista and Eddie.... "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" he asks his passengers.. who reply by shouting "Hell Yeah!" because I'm sure they totally would in real life.

What's rather odd is that Booker T's picture is on the back of the book and he doesn't appear in the book at all... very strange.

Yeah, nah.… (mer)

I am dying to read a YA series set at a school in space. DYING. I know, I know, [b:Ender's Game|375802|Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)|Orson Scott Card|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214413570s/375802.jpg|2422333] satisfies that wish...only it doesn't. I want it to be high school students and I want it to be like Stargate/Star Trek/Firefly meets every YA high school book ever made. Anyway, this book seems to be as close as I can get. *sigh* But it was rather fun!

I've never watched any Star Trek--gasp--but I did like the most recent movie and this book is based in the movie version of Starfleet. This turned out to be both a positive and a negative for me. I was happy that a lot of my favorite characters were there and it brought up several scenes from the movie that made me feel like I understood everyone's motivations for going to Starfleet. On the other hand, I felt that the references were too blatant and it made me feel like this book was published more to ride the wave of popularity from the movie than to publish a genuinely well-written book.

This book is described as following young Jim Kirk during his first few months at Starfleet. While it does do this, I'd say this book is actually about solving a mystery and romantic relationships between cadets. There was a lot of flirting going on and the relationship that I was most interested in was Spock and Uhura, for obvious reasons. I am a little disappointed there were no classroom scenes--it just felt a little hurried overall and, while I wanted to know more about each character, the narrative bounces back and forth between telling us about Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Bones, and it got a little frustrating.

I'd recommend this one to people who might be dying for a space school story or people who really enjoyed the latest Star Trek movie.… (mer)