The Way Through the Woods by Una McCormack

This book is not marketed as YA, despite the age of Tilly throughout, but it could be a YA novel. I loved her for the realistic and relatable depiction of the teenage experience on the page, without it feeling like the author was making teenagers more childish than they really are-a common flaw I find in most “adult” fiction with teen or child characters. Tilly is explaining to her friend Michael how she ended up at Starfleet, taking us back to the year she was 16.ġ6-year-old Tilly is, maybe, every bit as dramatic as I was at 16.

If you want, you can skip that opening chapter. Basically, a way to situate what is going to happen inside the mythos of Trek. The novel opens with a framing narrative. But, I said we’d leave that bit for the end, didn’t I? When I decided to pick up Trek tie-in novels for the first time, starting with a character I loved on-screen seemed the way to go.

Sylvia Tilly is, perhaps, the Star Trek character I currently relate the most to. But this year, everything will change for Tilly, as she is about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime-an adventure that will take her ever closer to the stars. Tilly wants to achieve great things-even though she hasn’t quite worked out how to do that or what it is she wants to do. It’s even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to attend one of the best schools that the Federation has to offer. It’s not easy being sixteen, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. Part of a Series: Technically, yes, but the novel itself stands alone in terms of plot/readability/etc.įind it: Physical copy on the 3rd floor SUMMARY

The Way Through the Woods by Una McCormack