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Summary: Steve Perry writes with mastery!
Review: As I read this book, I got deeper and deeper until I could not put it down. It also fills in the small gap between Empire and Jedi. Few writers attempt this probably because they assume that Jedi comes immediatly after Empire. Thats the cool concept. He fills in the gap. Anyway, it has a well developed plot. Luke and Leia are searching for Boba Fett and Han, frozen in carbonite. Perry creates a few new charactors, but the three major ones are Prince Xizor, Dash Rendar, and Guri. He also gives several humerous dipictions of masculine error. I recommend this book to all Star Wars fans!
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Summary: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK!
Review: This is probably the best book . It tells what happen between Empire and Jedi. It has new characters mixed in with the old.
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Summary: this rules!!!
Review: i think shadows of the empire is the best book of all time!!! junior novelation is the best its the best star wars story ever!!! read this book its great!!!
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Summary: Survives only through the "Star Wars" name
Review: On a very emperical level, "Shadows of the Empire" is a horrid book.Steve Perry -- whether through lack of imagination or the mindless control of Lucasfilm license holders -- has produced a lackluster novel which serves little purpose other than to introduce a handful of formula characters and situations. Although the book is touted as a nearly crucial bridge between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," readers will find that they indeed miss nothing of note between the 1980 and 1983 films. Prince Xizor is introduced as the never-before-alluded-to Third in Command of the Empire and ruler of a criminal syndicate called Black Sun. The notion that all criminal activity in the "Star Wars" universe is tied through a central organization proves interesting, but is left virtually unexplored. Instead the plot focuses on a background contest between Darth Vader and Xizor -- all for the favor of the Emperor. Both of these Imperial underlings are trying to reach Luke Skywalker, each with a different purpose. But does either one ever come within arm's length of the Jedi Knight? Of course not. Instead the plot veers to the pursuit of a carbon-frozen and completely inoperative Han Solo. Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewie and the droids hope to retreive their friend by employing the aid of another sidekick-bearing, Corellian smuggler banished from the Empire. Koodos for the originality, Steve. The Rebel characters' desperate search for a way to recover their comrade is skitzophrenic at best. And as Xizor's forces inevitably enter the fray, plots become subplots just as quickly as the inverse holds true. "Shadows of the Empire" reads like a comic book mostly because it was designed simultatneously as one. And it holds as much depth as a video game because it was produced hand-in-hand with one. This is a story with an identity crises -- unsure of what medium to take and failing at them all. Make no mistake: This book survives only through the "Star Wars" name. In our MTV based, Superbowl-commercial attention span era, "Shadows of the Empire" in an excellent example of how horribly multimedia ventures can fail. If you must -- if some crazed "Star Wars" fan has put a blaster to your head and demanded that you read this book -- then do so. But you will feel none the richer for having done so. In fact, you may curse the lost time. Time in which you could have done the laundry.
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Summary: This book is my favorite
Review: I recommend this book to readers of all ages that are crazed Star Wars fans. If you don't know what Shadows of the Empire is, it is the story in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It is mainly about saving Han Solo. I recommend this because each and every paragraph is full of details. My favorite part is where Luke and the rogue sqadron try to hijack a cargo plane containing special computer information. Tring to hijack it, it takes off and they follow it. Then out of nowhere it has a special defense system, half of the rogue sqadron was blown to space dust. That was the high action part. It even tells the action part from two points of view, Luke and the captains. Again this is a great book for readers of all ages!
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Summary: "Shadows of the Empire", Between the Trilogy. Movie Idea.
Review: Dear Steve Perry: I found this book most entertaining. You wouldn't think that there would be so much going on between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". To top it all off you added new characters on both sides of the story. On one hand you have the Dark Prince Xizor, who is trying to take Vader's place as the Emperor's right hand man. And you have, on the side of good, Dash Rendar, who is the one that is to find Han solo. It was a good idea to make a book that is not before or after the trilogy, but actually between it. Now I want to make the book into a movie. I know that on this review I can't really give a lot of the book's plots away, but it was a good idea to right about how things that lead to what would happen in "Return of the Jedi". It was also good that the flow of "The Empire Strikes Back" was continued in "Shadows of the Empire". For those of us who don't like to read very much I would like for you to make a movie that everyone in the U.S. would want to see. I personally liked the way you described how Luke Skywalker made his light saber in Obi-Wan's old home on Tatooine and how Luke was able to see Lando and Leia coming from miles away because, "out here in the middle of nowhere, nothing but sand and rocks and scrub, he could have seen them coming for a long way", p.38. You must also include the dog fights that took place up in outer space. That would pretty much include what I can say on this review other than that this book is a must read for every star wars fan. I thank you for reading my review.
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Summary: Really amazing
Review: Usually, I'm not a great fan of the Star Wars books, but this one amazed me. Very well written, interesting plot, and loyal to the Star Wars timeline and history, what it's not very common now a days. One of the main characters, Price Xizor, is unknown to the regular Star Wars fun, but it's very well developed by the autor and a very intresting vilan. Highly recomendable book.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I haven't read the adult's version yet, but this junior novelization was really good! I thought the characters were well developed and the plot and story exelant, but I wish it had shown more of Luke's obvios inner development between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Instead it just had him act like he did in The Empire Strikes Back all the way through the book. But despite that I really did love this book and intend to read the adults version as soon as I can.
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Summary: I miss Han, but still a good addition...
Review: In my effort to grab everything having to do with Star Wars, I grabbed this one and found it a pleasant surprise. After reading the BEST series out there by Timothy Zahn, I found that just about ALL of the other Star Wars books were much like a bottle of soda after being left with the cap off for much too long...way too flat. I am happy to say that with the exception of missing Han Solo (remember he was frozen in carbonite at the end of 'Empire') this book is probably the best Star Wars novel NOT written by Zahn. Prince Xixor is a worthy addition to this series of books, and for a short while we have someone who rivals Darth as the baddest dude this side of the Spice Mines of Kessel. From his private domain on the Imperial Home world to Darth's obsession with getting rid of him while he looks for Skywalker makes for entertaining reading, kinda like 'Star Wars Light'. If you are looking for serious reading however, than Timothy Zahn reigns supreme in this area. He is truly in a class by himself...but 'Shadow's' is actually not bad...
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Summary: Why did Steve Perry have to write this?
Review: Steve Perry is a prolific writer, but he is not a good one. This book is alright, yeah. But the way he describes Darth Vader's thoughts and actions does not live up to the image of Vader. He makes Vader seem weak! Also he doesn't flesh out action scenes and characters like Kevin J. Anderson did with his Star Wars novels. Steve Perry also wrote a poorly written novelization of Titan A.E. I haven't seen that movie, but I know bad writing style when I see one.
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