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Summary: great new series
Review: just when you thought you rid the universe of one bad guy more
enemies show up. the yuuzhan vong adhor techology of all kinds.
they hate things made of metal and droids they hate worse of all.
instead they use poor animals to run their ships and do the basic
things our friends from the new republic do. they even have one
built in to their ships that creates a void to.. in all missles and such that are fired at them from enemy vessels. sounds like to me they need to get with the program and use modern technology and leave the poor animals alone. their warriors even mutilate themselves and replace their human parts
with various animal parts. this is a sign of high ranking when
you look like a cross between an animal and a human. overall they
are fierce enemies that really give the new alliance a run for t
their money and i highly recommend that you read the whole series.
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Summary: Interesting start to a whole new series
Review: Vector Prime is the beginning book of the New Jedi Order saga. It takes on a completely different twist on the Star Wars universe by introducing a brand new, extragalactic species called the Yuuzhan Vong. The book is packed with action scenes, and catastrophic sequences. It also gets rid of a beloved character, which might put some one edge. Overall, Vector Prime is a very good book. The Galactic map is a real neat addition, too.
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Summary: Too Fast & Too Slow
Review: This book is an "OK" attempt at starting up the series, but it just doesn't even compare to the rest of the NJO books.Characters and alien terms are just thrown at you way to quickly, while the story itself is slow-paced. It would probably be okay to read it after you've read a few of the later books in the series, but it's not really a good place to start.
Rating:
Summary: A very well written book
Review: I really liked this book.
I have read some of R.A. Salvatore's books before, I loved them all. Then I saw that my friends were reading , so i picked it up , too.
Rating: 
Summary: Quite a good Star Wars book!
Review: Having read almost every Star Wars book in the series, I approached this book with some trepidation, already aware of the ONE big event that happens in the course of the story. However, I found it to be quite good. Salvatore has a flair for characters and keeps the Star Wars gang true to form. The Yuzahn Vong are just plain scary, possibly the nastiest villians ever presented in this series. Unlike many of the Empire's remnants, the Yuzahn Vong are extremely dangerous and will stop at nothing; couple this with their alien technology and we now have some foes worthy of a Star Wars tale. Good show!
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Summary: Stop whining!
Review: I'm so sick and tired of this book being denounced by many Star Wars geeks because of the death of Chewbacca. GET OVER IT! As I recall, Wookiee's aren't immortal, and its about time some of these characters showed a little vulnerability. I've read all of the Star Wars novels to date, and found nearly all of them lacking in plotline and interest with the exception of Vector Prime and the Corellian Trilogy. While not Salvatore's best work, it's definitely a good read and an excellent book in an otherwise mediocre chain of novels. The NJO has potential to be a great story arc if done correctly, Stackpole's two books that follow directly after VP are a bit on the boring side, but they keep the chain of events going so the NJO series can continue. A great start to a potentially great series overall, and a damn good shot from a first time Star Wars writer. Some of the characterization and historical summation could be a little better, hence the lack of a fifth star, but this is among the best of the Star Wars novels alsongside Roger McBride Allen's Corellian Trilogy. For those of you fans who have no lives outside of mourning Chewbacca and think Salvatore should be banned from future novles, you should know that he has written the novelization for Attack of the Clones...he's going to stay a while so get used to it and stop whining!
Rating: 
Summary: Barely better then the rest of the novels
Review: I can not for the life of me understand how anyone likes the Star Wars novels. They rehash plots and dialog and lack originality. Vector Prime at least attempts to bring new life to this sad series and barely accomplishes that. I guess if you are a 13 year old boy or an adult in arrested development you might enjoy this.
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Summary: A good star wars novel at last
Review: Vector Prime is a compelling and interesting story. This is my first Salvatore read, but it's definitely a good one. He accomplishes what many have failed to do with the star wars(post movie) storyline. To simply make a new type of story. He completly avoids the usual rehash of the same old story of the films common amongst the many star wars novelists. Such as, Kevin J Anderson and Barbara Hambley. And he does it with style. Vector Prime introduces the original characters of the star wars space opera into the their latter years containing the continuity of the previous novels (flawed & poorly written as most of them may be). A thing much under-rated in the appreciation of long run series novels. Bottom Line is that the jewel of this book is that it's a new original tale with characters many have stated again and again have outlived their longevity as interesting characters. RA Salvatore gives these over-written characters & storyline the overhaul they richly deserved. I believe the star wars genre needs more writers like a RA Salvatore or even Roger McBride Allen (The Corellian trilogy). Writers who can take the founding works of others & craft them into something original. For us star wars fans (new & old) who love to feel exilerated when lightsabers "snap-hiss" and blaster bolts fire this is the one.
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Summary: ITS NOT STARWARS WITHOUT CHEWIE
Review: TWENTY-ONE YEARS AFTER ENDOR... TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER
YAVIN...THE NEW REPUBLIC IS ABOUT TO FACE AN INCREDIBLY,
SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE FOE! WILL THE GALAXY EVER BE THE
SAME SAFE PLACE IT USED TO BE IN THE MINDS OF OUR FAVORITE
HEROS... BUT WAIT ...ONE OF OUR HEROS DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING
ON HIS MIND AT ALL! WE'LL ALL MISS YOU CHEWIE!
Rating: 
Summary: Fish out of water
Review: For the first 100 pages or so, I was captivated. The plot Salvatore was developing held a lot of promise, and I really wanted to see him use that to good effect. But the further I read, the more disappointed I became. Salvatore basically builds the plot up to this amazing level and then drops it right on its backside with a hastily tossed-together series of anticlimactic, highly improbable, horribly written events that lead to a wholly unsatisfying and unbelievable (as well as factually completely impossible) ending. In addition to the sloppy last half of the book, Salvatore seems to have gotten quite a few things completely wrong with regards to the Star Wars universe, and I'm amazed the editors at Lucasfilm didn't catch his massive errors. I consider myself fairly knowledgable regarding the Star Wars universe, but by no means a fanatic, and yet I still managed to notice several glaring problems. Light sabers working immediately after being underwater, TIE Fighters with hyperdrives, sensors not being able to detect ships with the sun behind them, a craft so tiny that the pilot must shed his clothes to fit inside it (and yet, when necessary for a daring rescue, the craft holds two people plus equipment), and the list goes on and on. The first half of this book held a lot of promise, but Salvatore has demonstrated that he has no ability to skillfully finish what he starts, nor does he seem to show any desire whatsoever to remain factually accurate within the universe for which he's writing. I really wish they'd been able to get Mike Stackpole, Timothy Zahn, or even Kevin J. Anderson to write the first book in this series. As it is, I'm very disappointed.
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