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Okay, I read Unascended and mostly liked it even without reading the earlier Legacy books. HOWEVER, I am grumpy at its sequel Third Path. In Unascended, there seems to be some build up to a Carson & Elizabeth reunion: one of her earliest returned memories is his memorial service, Carson is open to the possibility of Elizabeth being alive, and Elizabeth briefly panics that the whole situation is a mind game when the others refer to Carson in the present tense.

But then there’s no reunion in Third Path?! In Elizabeth’s return to Atlantis Lorne greets her and there is an admittedly cute callback to “Rising” with Jack sending another bottle through. But there’s no mention of Carson and they aren’t shown on-page together.

Don’t me get me wrong, Radek & Elizabeth getting a moment to reconnect at the book’s end was sweet. But it strikes me as unfair to not see their reunion, especially as technically the core team had ‘reunited’ with Elizabeth in the show. Carson wasn’t in those episodes, and I really wanted to see that reunion.

There was plenty in Third Path that I liked, but there are also some serious hiccups. The lack of a scene between Carson & Elizabeth definitely upset me the most, though. The implied hanging out doesn’t do it for me. I like their friendship in the first 3 seasons and I feel robbed of getting to see their mutual joy of getting a friend back from the dead. >:(

I might end up writing it myself if the tie-in novels won’t do it.

... I am 100% cherry-picking which novel elements I’m going to view as my SGA canon and I regret nothing.

More seriously, I’m willing to hear about other Stargate novels I should read.

I’ve also read Pride of the Genii, Transitions, Death Game, Kali’s Wrath, Permafrost, and the Rising novelization.

Any books that feature Carson, Rodney, Daniel, Janet, Vala, or Elizabeth would be particularly nice, but honestly I love just about everybody. Though Permafrost was a little outside my comfort zone due to the horror tropes, to give you guys a sense of what a scaredy cat I can be.