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I'm not dropping this book because I don't enjoy it, rather because I haven't found myself pulling it out that often. I think I just need a break from Star Trek novels. My next read will be a nonfiction.

Up to page 241. Wish I could have enjoyed this more, it just felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere.

I'd like to amend the previous comment: there are actually two saving graces to this book. Rios's character, and the in-universe scientific papers that occasionally appear at the end of relevant chapters. They're pretty well written, and are excellent worldbuilding that shows that JJM understands the Star Trek universe on a deep level. (If only he used that understanding to tell a more compelling story!)

I'd read a whole book of just in-universe sociology and philosophy texts, especially of Star Trek, but for any fictional universe really. Does that book exist? I probably won't get an answer here if so.

I'm probably going to stop reading this soon, unless it picks up in a huge way, because it's really not interesting to me.

It's the opposite of "Revenant" - that was everything I wanted from a tie-in novel and this everything I cynically expect to happen in a tie-in novel. The refusal to invent anything new, instead referencing other shows whenever it can. A gritty action focus that feels more Star Wars than Star Trek. Maybe I just haven't gotten to "the good part" but the story feels very meandering. I will say that JJM does a great job of writing the character of Rios, but that's all I can praise about this book.