This is the best of the Captain's Table miniseries that I've read so far - though I think I'm only about halfway through it at this point. Still, Janeway's my favourite Trek character so I was looking forward to this one especially, and it's a great character study of her. Interestingly, she's pretty much the only Voyager character in this, apart from little bits at the beginning and the end - given this book takes place in the Delta Quadrant, I wasn't expecting that. But with Voyager apparently destroyed, Janeway is rescued from an escape pod and taken in by an alien crew who are struggling with challenges of their own. 

I liked the character work here, as I said, and I liked the alien crew - their culture is very clearly different from Janeway's but they're generally compassionate and thoughtful people. The antagonists here were slightly less successful: Carey has devised a culture that is both heartbreaking and desperately cruel, but their lack of focus on the biological sciences makes no credible sense, I'm afraid, given their situation. Still, I enjoyed it.