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Summary: Graet Trilogy!
Review: The Force Heritic Trilogy was really smashing. The first book was a battle between the Empire and the Yuuzhan Vong. The second was a battle between the Ssi-ruuk and the Bakura/Galactic Allance forces. The third was a battle between The Yuuzhan Vong and the Gallactic Allance/Empire.Interwoven into all this is the serch for the living planet Zonama Sekot, which could prove critical in continuing war effort. All the battles are won and, dispite what the summery on the third book said, Zonama Sekot sends no "defiant message" and agrees to help the good guys (after some initail trouble). I liked the action on the speeder bikes in the third book, which, so many books after the speeder bide scenes in Return of the Jedi, FINALLY become an important part of a story. The natives of Esfandia in the same book were also a good idea. The resolution of Tahiri's case of Vong-induced multiple personality symdrome is great, though it could have taken less page space. As for complaints about no character development with Jag, Jania, and company, I like them the way they are. And the battle scenes mentioned earlier were handled great.
As for why I rated it for Stars instead of five, the battle scene in the third book seemed to focus on one ship and ignore the other seventeen ememy vessels. And finaly, Jacen and Danni Quee (why so many fans hate her I don't know) are suposed to be having a romance, but you could hardly tell that. Why not some kissing scenes in the last two NJO books. And the picture on the cover? All I can say is that they should have gotten someone who went to college and PASSED Art 101. Overall a great trilogy in a great series.
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Summary: just another book
Review: this book is ok just like so many of the others in this series. some action for the solos a quest for luke and mara. the parts with nom anor are definatley the best parts of the book. the problem with the njo series is its hard to really care about most of the characters because you dont really know them all that well. I mean i dont really care about the children of han and leia. dont get me wrong the books are entertaining enough and i have read quite a few of them and will continue to do so but really most of these are disposable literature.
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Summary: Simply Amazing
Review: This book was terrific, the whole sears is amazing. Ive read the other reviews and others have complained about the faact that its compleatly predictable and that you would know how it ended. But they missesed the true jem of actually reading the inbetween and feeling the emotion the authors wrote into it. I could not put this book down, at one point I was literally reading it by carlight on a bumpy dirt road where I couldnt get mroe than two or three sentances in before having to stop and gatehr my focus again. I belive everyone knew how it would end, but the excietment on was how they got there, the adventure, the whole drama unfolded as they always do. The epologe at the end was grand too, I could feel the loss Luke was feeling when he thought about his family being scattered all over the galaxy. When they were all gathering by the ship and talking It made me think back to the ending of Return of The Jedi and I kinda pictured them like that all grouped up taking that perfect group shot before the film went to the credits. This book cant be appreciated by itself, the whole serires is a masterpeice, rivaling the origional triligy itself. If I could ask Lucas for one last trilligy it would be of this series. Since the first battle, Chewbaccas death and funeral (I was shocked at his death, even angry at salvador for writing it, I cried trying to get through his funeral) To the Terrivying voxin, a book that literally tore me up, I almost wanted to stop reading but I had to keep going, I wanted to see the ending. To this, the winding down of the war, and the enevitable end. The Star Wars books of any triligy including this one, is not ment for those who saw the movie once or twice and thought the books would be a good somthing to read along with it. These books are for the fans, the true ones. Ive spent many days wishing I could be in those stories, to be a Jedi, a protector, healer and warrior. To fly spaceships against creatures that would destroy everything and everyone of these books have brought me a little closer to it, I cannot wait for the next book and the final after that, it is simply too long and each day without them drives crazy.
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Summary: the best of them
Review: This book was the best of the Force Heretic books for many reasons.
1)You get to find out what happans to Tahiri
2)An old frind comes back
3)Tahiri realise that see is not feeling guilty about living when Anikin has died, but, that she has moved on in her life without him
4)Jacan,Luke,Mara,Danni,etc. find Zonama Sekot
5)Jaina gets traped inside Tahiri's mind
6)Jag says "I love you Jaina"
Great book,can't wait till The next two and the trilogy after that.
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Summary: Weak links in the NJO chain
Review: This is a general comment on all three Force Heretic books. These are some of the weakest books of the series, and found them just barely enjoyable and then only because I enjoy the Star Wars milieu so much. The basic problem is that they make very little sense. After reading the whole series I still have no idea who the "force heretic" the title refers to is. And I have only the foggiest idea why the characters think the quest for Zonama Sekot is important. While we're on the subject, the characters are poorly drawn and their actions make little sense. The whole thing is so weak that the books just aren't a lot of fun. Nevertheless, Reunion is the best of the three.
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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: This is a great book! Anyone who has not read any of the New Jedi Order books should probably start with Balance Point and work their way up or read the whole series, but if you've read up to Force Heretic II:Refugee, then you should definately read this book. Oh, and by the way... The search for Zonama Secot is finally over. It really does exist!!!
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Summary: Boring Ending to an Uninspired Series
Review: This is a very mediocre novel, that finally wraps up the disappointing Force Heretic trilogy of the NJO. If anything, now that it is FINALLY over, I have an additional complaint, this one about the totally misleading name. "Force Heretic" really implied a storyline about Jacen Solo, exploring Vergere's controversial claims about the dark side or expanding his understanding to include the Vong. As it stands, it would appear that the title is probably referring to Nom Anor's herecy - "probably" because this was such a very minor facet of this story, I am still not sure. Back to this particular book: Like the two before it, it contains mostly filler, no surpises, a very predictable storyline and a large number of errors/misrepresentations/inconsistencies. There are three storylines:
a) The Luke/Mara/Zonama-Sekot one, the only one of any realrelevence to anything, simply reaches its predictable happy ending. No real twists, no new characters, not even some reasonably heroic actions
b) The Han/Leia/Jaina/Tahiri one is just filler, and badly written filler at that. The battles with the Vong are the worst, making very little sense, violating the laws of both physics and the Star Wars universe, as well as basic military principles.
c) The Nom Anor storyline, which really held the most promise in the begining goes absolutely nowhere. If you simply read the summary on the back of any of the three books, or the one on Amazon, you will not need to actually read these novels. After more than 1,000 pages, we met no new characters, developed a secondary character (Tahiri) a very little bit and failed to surprise the reader once. Two stars is probably too much for this one.
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Summary: Finally everybody arrives somewhere and this trilogy is over
Review: This is the 17th Book in the The New Jedi Order saga, or 19th if you count the 2 e-book only stories. Only two more books to go.
The third and last book in this story by Sean Williams and Shane Dix, is the more entertaining of the three books, but that's not too hard to achieve. And don't get me wrong, there's plenty, I mean, lots of cinematic action around... but most of it makes little sense. The book continues with the 3 stories of the last two books: the search for the living-planet Zonama Sekot by Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Saba Sebatyne, Tekli, Danni Quee and the group of the Imperial Remnant helping them. Guess what? They finally found it. I have to repeat my recommendation to read another SW book, not part of the New Jedi Order: "Star Wars: Rogue Planet" by Greg Bear ... It's not very good, but you can understand the importance of Zonama Sekot, the interaction with the Jedi Vergere and Anakin Skywalker role in the history of this planet. If you think this idea of a sentient planet, I'll have to refer you to Marvel Comics, where "Ego, The Living Planet" has been around for some decades. Crazy, I know. I'm sure there must be a prior work in the SciFi literature somewhere. The best part of this story (and maybe the book) must be the narration of Zonama's flora and fauna. You can get to imagine this wonderful world, full of life and the Force. The problem with this part is all the secondary story, this rebel group in Zonama, and the decisions of Jacen Solo. It's really exasperating. It's almost as if Jacen is returned to his pre-Vergere thinking. And it's not fully explained (or at least satisfactory) the decision Luke makes. Finally, the story ends very weak, you can see Zenoama Sekot endured a lot of problems when it was travelling around the galaxy, but now the Ferroans have some technology which will prevent that of happening again, if there's going to be another "tour". Yeah, right. And then there's this news bulletin Luke gives to his sister in an insecure comm channel, when just some lines before Leia was making that evident to another person. You would think you'd like to be sure there are no information leaks. Another storyline is the one with Nom Anor and his rebellion among the Shamed Ones, which leads to nowhere. We continue to see Shimrra, and the Yuuzhan Vong finally appeared, but as another reviewer said, the Yuuzhan Vong are being dumbed down, they are not that formidable force we have seen in the first 14 books. And it's not that they have changed for the worst, it's only part of the storyline plan, I guess. There's no way the editor(s) could allow this very different (bad?) representation. The other storyline is about the party from the Galactic Federation of Free-Alliances formed by Han and Leia Organa Solo, Jaina, Jag Fel, etc. There's a lot of action here, but also, many holes in the story, or not fully explained things, or things handled with a degree of levity. There's one part of the story where you see both warring parts are expecting something to happen in the surface below, and you can't see clearly why one side of it want's so badly to be there. "Don't worry", it's "explained" at the beginning of the epilogue. It doesn't make much sense, really. Now, this is the book from the three-part "Force Heretic" that I read quicker and maybe I enjoyed most, but it must be beacause I already invested in the previous two books. This is the weakest books of all the New Jedi Order series, and it's a shame they dedicated three books to it. The last two books must be a great deal better than these last three to leave a good taste to the entire series. I really hope so.
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Summary: ultimately unsatisfying
Review: This NJO can't end soon enough. Just when you think its safe to reenter the EU, an page trilogy that could have been a good 350 page book saps ones energy. So where are we? A sentient planet is coming to the rescue? Jacen is just not likeable. Luke and Mara shoved to meaningless roles? Book 18 had better be something special. Wow, anyone read Shatterpoint? Shame it wasn't a trilogy.
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Summary: NJO/Living Planet
Review: This was an interesting book. It was interesting to get an insight into a living planet's mind. It was also interesting to see how Luke and Jacen reacted. It will be intersting to see how this planet is going to play a role in upcoming events.
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