Spirit Walk: Old Wounds

Okay, so this is when the VOY relaunch gets good apparently. I've read some criticism of Christie Golden's VOY efforts, but I really enjoyed this. Chakotay as Captain is natural, and all the additions to the crew work really well. I particularly love Jarem Kaz, and hope he add all his personalities stick around.

As always, the effort to integrate Chakotay's heritage gets a bit cringey and tropey (See : http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNativeAmerican), but Golden seems to be making a real effort to reduce that while staying true to the source material. I especially appreciate the effort to emphasize the fact that Chakotay's people are colonists of Native American descent on another planet who have sought to revitalize show more traditional lifeways, rather than direct descendants of Natives still living in ancestral lands. This way they are to some extent are a fictional culture, rather than a bad fictional representation of a real culture.https://www.librarything.com/work/173248# show less