Talk:The Siege (novel)

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This is an excellent early period DS9 novel, which is surprising due to how little material Peter David had to work with while writing it. The characterizations are spot on for the most part. Sisko delivers a few lines from time that are a little difficult to imagine him saying, but it's nothing too noticeable. PAD even seems to have pre-empted the DS9 writers a little bit by having Rom act like an idiot, which took a few episodes to catch on in the series. The plot with Meta is excellent and the sideplot with Quark and Glav is pretty amusing and it's fun to see how it comes together. Bashir's insistance on saving Rasa is nothing exactly riveting, but it fills up some space pretty nicely. If you like DS9, and you like Peter David, you really can't go wrong with this novel. The fight scenes between Odo and Meta are well done, though in typical Peter David fashion at one point Meta takes the form of a wheeled Mugato which was a little strange. Overall this is a really fun read, especially for fans of Odo. I'd recommend it.