{"id":49266,"date":"2023-05-20T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49266"},"modified":"2023-05-21T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T02:51:23","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-unspoken-truth-by-margaret-wander-bonnano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-unspoken-truth-by-margaret-wander-bonnano\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Unspoken Truth by Margaret Wander Bonnano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1240,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/a96e63a9-5c94-41c2-a85d-614f197bdb4a&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230529033830\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/a96e63a9-5c94-41c2-a85d-614f197bdb4a&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 10:45:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 20:28:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 19:28:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 19:28:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>26\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/a96e63a9-5c94-41c2-a85d-614f197bdb4a\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Saavik-centric story, mostly set after the events of Star Trek IV, but with flashbacks to her youth. The first half of the book is mostly planetary exploration with a dash of mystery surrounding Saavik\u2019s past; the latter half takes that mystery and becomes a somewhat odd spy story, with various disguised motivations. I found the latter half far less engaging than the first, but overall, I liked diving more into Saavik\u2019s character and fleshing out some of the wider consequences of the Star Trek II\/III\/IV trilogy. Also, though not a comedic adventure, one brief mention of a character \u201cstepping over a Thermian\u2019s tentacles\u201d in a bar did make me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mwb_ut-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Unspoken Truth\" title=\"mwb_ut.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the latter half far less engaging than the first, but overall, I liked diving more into Saavik\u2019s character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2047],"tags":[5702,4097],"class_list":["post-49266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-star-trek","tag-margaret-wander-bonnano","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}