In the author's note at the back of the book, DeCandido talks about how much he likes Q, and how much of a fun character he thinks that Q is. I agree with him. John de Lancie is extremely entertaining in the role and I'm always glad to see him pop up in episodes, because he always looks like he's having so much fun with it and therefore I have fun with it as well.

I didn't find this novel particularly fun, to be honest. Mostly I just found it kind of strained, as if it were trying a bit too hard to be meaningful in its attempt to shoehorn in every possible Q reference and weave them together into one over-arching - and not very interesting - story. The strain took all the fun out of it.