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Summary: Pretty Good, for a beginning...
Review: The book was good. We find Boba Fett naked, in the sand, who was found by Dengar and his bride manaroo, though Manaroo is not really in the story. Instead, he and Boba join with Neelah, a dancer from Jabba's palace who is trying to find her past. I liked the ending solution to their current problem, and I was intrigued by Kud'ar Mub'at, the spider-like schemer, Bossk, the carnivorous bounty hunter, Zuckuss, the coward, Xizor, the kinda boring evil planner, and one of Kud'ar Mub'at's little underlings.
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Summary: An Awesome Read
Review: I loved this book. Jeter has real talent. I just wanted to clear the multitude of problems you guys have. First of all the time changes. Dudes! Its easy, when he's kicking...it's in the past. When he's an almost swallowed hardly digested mandalorian barve, it's in the now. Another one, conversation lasts like a chapter long. Well, its good that way, you have someone to root for, as this is a book in which you need that. I havent finished the book, though I know my opinion wont change when I do. One thing I am a little perplexed about is how Fett got himself out of the Sarlaac. I mean I did read it in a previous novel but.....
oh well, I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEE this book!
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Summary: Boba may be great, but this story isn't....
Review: Telling a story with Boba Fett opens a world of possibilities, but this book falls flat on its face. There is little point to anything that happens in the story. It's a struggle to read, and the only thing that kept me going was the hope that Boba was about to do something exciting. At the end, I was glad it was over, and I'm not exactly jumping up and down to read the next one.
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Summary: Boba Fett Fans May Find This Disappointing
Review: I bought this book because I read every Star Wars book that I can get my hands on. I actually thought that this would give me further insight into the minds of the mysterious bounty hunters that we all wondered about in The Empire Strikes Back. In this, I was not disappointed. I got to learn more about Dengar and Bossk and how the Bounty Hunter's Guild was disbanded. However, if you were looking for insight into the character of Boba Fett, look somewhere else. The only info about Boba Fett that you'll come away from this book with is: 1. Boba Fett is ruthless, 2. He has no friends, 3. He's as tough as nails. These things true Boba Fett fans already know. I thought maybe we would learn a little about his past, but all we learn is that Boba Fett likes to erase all ties (human or alien) to his past. As for Jeter's portrayal of the bounty hunter, Zuckuss, I found it to be lacking. Zuckuss is supposed to be a findsman - a warrior. In this book, he's nothing but a sniveling coward, mostly hiding behind Bossk. Once in a while, he may show some intelligence, but those moments are few and far between. If you like Prince Xizor, you may be pleased with HIS portrayal - as power hungry and obnoxious as ever. He's the only character that has ever made me want to root for Darth Vader. The most intriguing storyline is that of Neelah, an escapee from Jabba's Palace who's searching for clues about her past. This is why I rated this book with 3 stars instead of 2. I'm actually looking forward to finding out what her tie with Boba Fett is. As for Dengar, another disappointment. After reading Tales of the Bounty Hunters, I had the feeling that Dengar was tougher than he's portrayed in this novel. And there seem to be a couple of discrepencies with other expanded universe novels. If you're a diehard Star Wars fan like me, you struggle through this series. Otherwise I suggest you skip it - You aren't missing much.
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Summary: Nobody's Hero
Review: I enjoyed this novel, despite a lot of dialogue and flipping back and forward from "At the beginning of ROTJ" to "Around the time of ANH." The central character is Boba Fett, who many remember as the most revered bounty hunter. Well, apparently, Boba Fett was a bad pill to swallow for the Sarlacc! A bounty hunter named Dengar finds Boba lying half naked, and seriously injured on the Dune Sea. First found by Neela, a dancer who escaped from Jabba's palace. Boba is nursed back to health by Dengar's two medical droids. Meanwhile, the author takes us back to A New Hope time frame, where Boba Fett is paid by a new character, called Ku'dar Mu'bat, a spiderlike creature to bring a disassembly to the Bounty Hunter's Guild.
Jeter really never explains how Boba broke up the Guild, but as one reviewer put it, it was more Bossk's doing than Boba's. Although, with Bounty Hunter's as a group, who needs enemies?
Other characters inserted briefly are Vader and Prince Xizor, prior to Xizor's demise in Shadows of the Empire. Lot's of selfish ambition in this novel, where no one is your friend.
As usual, the ending of this novel is a cliffhanger, as Slave I...
Well, you'll have to read it.
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Summary: Great Tape
Review: I have recently listened to the first of the Bounty Hunter wars.
I thought it was a great book. I am excited to read the second in the series. I like it now everytime when I watch Return Of the Jedi and see Boba Fett isn't there and remember what he was doing in that time. I recommand it! ******************** 20 stars!
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Summary: I LOVE that kind of SCUM
Review: I dont care what other people say about this book i thought it was awesome. It left me wanting more action, more firepower, more scum and villany from these low life barves. I couldnt wait for the second book of this amazing series but I was kind of dissapointed in how some of the other bounty hunters were portrayed as cowards such as Zuckuss and a bunch of whiners like Bossk. However Boba Fett was as rad as he always is and well in the end i was satisfied with the Mandarlorian Armor.
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Summary: Somebody in the world really, really likes Boba Fett.
Review: K. W. Jeter's Bounty Hunter War series begins just after the events at the beginning of Return of the Jedi in which Jabba the Hutt's sailboat thingy is destroyed and the rebels rescue Han Solo etc...We come to find out that Boba Fett was, according to Jeter, not killed in the belly of the Sarlacc monster as is suggested by the film. In fact, we come to find out that Boba Fett is actually the single most important person in the entire universe and the question of his death seems to be the most important thing on everyone's mind. Boba Fett apparently blasted his way out of the Sarlacc as it was consuming him and is rescued by Dengar and a mysterious dancer who escaped from Jabba's palace. Dengar would be one of the bounty hunters whom you can just barely make out for a fraction of a second, if you squint,during the sequence in Empire Strikes Back where Vader hires bounty hunters to track Han Solo's ship. His striking role in Empire Strikes Back takes place outside the depth of field of the camera shooting the scene and at no time, is he in focus. Nonetheless, he merited an action-figure and a central role in Jeter's sycophantic ode to Boba Fett. We discover that there is actually a Bounter Hunter Guild, which in itself is a very stupid concept, made more stupid by Jeter making it out to be powerful enough to warrant the attention of the Empire, which may simply be yet another device which allows the skills and prowess of Boba Fett to be complimented by both Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. Literally, almost every sentence in the book that mentions Boba Fett is accompanied by some kind of glorifying phrase or paragraph. We are told over and over again how he is the most respected and feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. To further support this, Jeter portrays all of the other bounty hunters mostly as bumbling idiots, especially Bossk and Zuckuss who reach nearly Abbott and Costello proportions of ineptitude. The Boba Fett worship is so obvious and so distracting that rather than admiring the character, I am almost motivated to look up Jeter's contact address and send him a letter that says simply, "Why don't you just make love to Boba and get it over with?" Isn't like the first rule of creative writing that you're supposed to make the reader feel a certain way about a character through his actions, rather than just describing the character in such a fashion that the author's intentions are given away immediately. The only interesting thing Jeter does is create a new bounty hunter (or at least one I've never heard of before), D'harhan, who has been medically altered so that he is a living weapon and his head is actually a refurbished cannon of incredible proportions. He speaks of D'harhan with such reverence as to seemingly put him almost on an equal par with Boba Fett -- which, believe me, is no easy compliment in this book --and then kills him off almost immediately during a scrap with some raggedy bodyguards, who Boba Fett of course then easily dispatches in seconds. So lame. I know, I know - I'm expecting too much. It is fun to read about the possible events that fill out gaps within the films, and the really sad thing is that the fleeting sequence with Vader hiring the colorful bounty hunters mentioned earlier is more interesting than the entire Dagobah portion of the film. It is a tragedy that Lucas chose to pass over so quickly a part of the plot that I think much of his audience would like to have seen more of. I have the feeling that there were a lot more of the cool bounty hunter action-figures sold than of Yoda and that ugly orange snake he came with. This having been said, Jeter absolutely squanders an opportunity to flesh out already interesting characters. All he had to do was run with it, and he instead makes Lucas' bounty hunters at best inflated and unbelievable and at worst unmenacing and even laughable, seemingly based solely on which action figures he happened to play with the most as a child. see my reviews at www.saveyourservant.com
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Summary: Incongruous Plot
Review: This was a very good book, but there were some major plot holes. I could not understand how Boba Fett supposedly broke up the Bounty Hunters Guild. He didn't do anything! It was more Bossk's slaying of Cradossk that led to the break up of the Guild than Fett's appearance there. I also believe that this story evolves way too slowly. Even the scene on the Shell Hutt's world of Circumtore, which is an action scene, is paced too slowly. Still, it is a worthwhile read, and most of it is enjoyable.
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Summary: Entertaining, but shallow
Review: Mandalorian Armor is a pretty entertaining book, and I was really looking foreward at the end to reading the other books to find out what would happen. However, the reasons for Fett destroying the Hunter's Guild seemed contrived, and it seemed to me the author was trying to make the story more complicated than it had to be. I got the sense that the overly complicated and involved intrigues were merely an excuse for action, rather than the reason. Ignoring these faults however, the Mandalorian Armor is a good read. Summary: more action, less nonsensical excuses for said action.
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