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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: Sorry, as a Star Wars novel goes, the plot is loose, the writing is terrible, the characters hardly developed, and the authors knowledge of the Star Wars Universe seems sorely lacking. I am sorry to have even wasted the money on this. I am sorely disappointed in Lucas and those in his employ for even allowing this to go to print. As to those bantering about the death of a main character, sorry but I'm entirely opposed to it. I will not purchase any further novels by this author, as they are a waste of my time (This from a person who, if it has Star Wars anywhere on it, I buy it.)
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Summary: Horror instead of traditional Star Wars
Review: I can tell that Salvatore's previous books were horror books. He is never able to marry his horrific plot and the traditional Star Wars plot. If you remove any pretenses of Star Wars, you have a horror story with characters slaying people with axes. I was very disappointed. The notable characteristics of Han Solo, and Leia were altered, and the plots involving Solo & Leia were too comical. The omnipotence of 'The Force' was absent from this book. I think more previous research from the Bantam books should have occurred. I hope that the future Del Rey books remain with the traditional plots, characters, feel, and atmosphere of Star Wars Sagas.
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Summary: Screw Salvatore!
Review: I just wrote a review on this book a minute ago, and now I realize that I went to easy on it. 1) Way to many run on sentences (even I,who flunked english can see that!). 2) Whats with diseased Mara? I mean God! when Luke finaly gets the girl she has to get this fricking disease! 3) And the Solo kids are suposed to be jedi? at15/16? And I'm supossed to belive that they are now better pilots than Han and Chewie ever were! Thats just not posible! 4) The Yuzhan Vong sound a lot like the Ssi Rukk from 'Truce at Bakura', they both can't touch the force. Yet the Ssi Rukk made more sense, considering they were better described than the Yuzhan Vong. I mean Salvatore hardly described them at all, the reader is as in the dark as much as the characters are. 5) And of course there's Chewie's demise, for that Salvatore should be banished from writing star wars books forever! It was not Star Wars! This may sound inferior coming from a 12-year-old,but its my opinion, and if you think diferently, you think wrong.
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Summary: God awful
Review: Salvatore's book illustrates the problems with having a "name" author write in the SW universe. Salvatore feels he has a free license to ignore just about anything about SW that he doesn't like. The death of Chewie illustrates this problem. Do people die in SW? Yes, but the death (Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon) serves a purpose. Chewies death is senseless, it's a crude attempt to give the book some "shock value" The wooden characterizations of Luke, Leia and Han are bad enough, but worst of all is the way way Salvatore butchers the Jedi children. Jacen, Jaina and Anakin are only 17, but they speak and act like they're 40. In addition, the plot is resolved with the worst Deus ex Machina I've ever witnessed in a SW novel.
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Summary: Sloppy Writting/ Not enough details/
Review: I'll keep this simple: I have read Salvatore before and regardless of fantasy or science-fiction genres, this was a poorly written book. -- awkward sentences -- overly used phrases, adjectives -- typos! **Leia ditching her body guards was very stupid. They are practically invisable, and are sworn to protect her. Why does she ditch them?**In addition the alien race was very flat. An alien race is nothing new; Salvatore did not give us the details to make them interesting. Do they feed their creatures? How do they train them? Raise them? Is the whole society warriors? Do they feel any emotion besides anger? How exactly did they make it in to the galaxy? WHY DO THEY NOT FEEL/GIVE OFF THE FORCE? One more thing. There was much more, but you have read it all before. However, the Death could have been done better. It was very campy and stupid. He dies saving one more kid on a planet with millions dying? He is a hero, but not stupid. Again: I have read Salvatore before, I am a writer, I tutor writing and when I read this book I was annoyed at the writing style. Mr. Salvatore had to work with what was given to him, and he had to fill in as much as he was allowed to, but the writing could have better. Borrow it from a friend who will glad to let you read it.
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Summary: Does not feel like Star Wars
Review: There are so many things wrong with this book it is hard to find a place to begin. First of all, you have this new race from outside the galaxy, not a bad idea, but Jedi find that they are devoid of the Force. Wasn't the Force supposed to be in every living and non living thing. So how can these aliens even exist? The next big problem is all this organic technology. Their ships are living corral but they feed off of rocks. Give me a break. Oh, and the snake staff that can get hard enough to parry a lightsaber. Didn't Salvatore see Episode I with the lightsaber cutting through a blast door? The aliens also have gravity generators that make anything the New Republic has seem like a toy. What is astonishing is that no one can seem to pick up their gravity generators with sensors. Even today, if a gravity well was projected to pull our moon down, so one could find it fairly easily. Now to my favorite complaint, the Solo children. They are 15 and 17 and they already proclaim themselves to be Jedi Knights. They think that "Jedi Master" Luke Skywalker is wrong in a lot of his decisions so they do it how they want it done. Later, Luke realizes that they were right and he was wrong. They seem to be all powerful. It is a good thing Darth Vader and the Emperor are already dead because they wouldn't stand a chance against the Solo children. Bring back the old feel to Star Wars. Make the characters act like they should and find a write who knows about the Star Wars universe
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Summary: Easily one of the best
Review: By all means, I belive this is the best Star Wars novel I've ever read after Dark Apprentice. It captures the horror element and almost perfectly merges it with sci-fi and fantasy to ultimately form a sci-fi/thriller. The only thing keeping me back from giving this a Five-Star rating, is the solomn event of Chewbacca's untimely death. I just have one question for Mr. Salvatore. What prompted him to kill Chewie off anyway? He wanted to write the story enough? He liked the money offer? What? My other gripe about the book was that we didn't get enough background in some areas. A little more background on Nom Anor or the Yuuzhan Vong(Please note that if this is percieved as a plot spoiler, it was not intended). Other than that though, I found this to be action-packed, intense, and a great read for Star Wars fans and for fans of fantasy books and thriller books. I hope the second one lives up to the expectations created by the first. J.V.S.
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Summary: Cant wait for the Sequal
Review: I thought this was a well written book. The char. were believable,and the plot was real interesting. For all the people complaining about the death of a main char, get over it. Just remember if Lucas did not like the story;this book would not have been published.
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Summary: Vector Prime
Review: In the end, I only thought it was so decent. As many have stated, the death of Chewbacca was a mistake. The Star Wars genre in my mind was really about keeping the main characters alive--immortal if you would. To kill one off for 'shock-value' doesn't serve much purpose and I disapprove. (As a fan I'm allowed to) On a different note, the plot itself was rather nice. (Though too dark for SW, in my opinion.) What I found annoying was the grammar structure, with too many sentences that could have been easily cut into two or three seperate ones. (the short-description; WAY too many commas in WAY too many sentences. I was expecting a lot to end with "that lives in the house that Jack lives.") I hear this is the beginning of a series of seven novels for "A New Jedi Order." As this one was decent enough, I am still not too interested in continuing to read the rest of Salvatore's series. In a lot of ways, the writing felt like it was from an amatuer, even if plot was decent. (And I am aware of the writer's past writings. My opinion still stands) If you are looking for a Star Wars book like none other, than I guess this hits your spot. If you want something more 'traditional,' then stay away. Long live Chewie!
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Summary: Good Sci-fi, But where's the force?
Review: I enjoyed this book, but i've read all the adult books and even have all the books on tape except Children of the Jedi, and Darksaber. There were things that nagged it me, like why didn't someone edit the book that was more familiar with the Star Wars Universe and expanding abilities of Luke and Leia. How is it that Luke couldn't sense his wife was in danger only a few feet away, or that she never thought to call to him or reach for him in the force. Neither felt a presence that "rejects the force". Leia couldn't sense if her son was alive. The bad guys stopped using their highly effective metal eating bugs, which can go into hyperspace when crunch time came and they suddenly lost their ability to turn off the good guys shields. Then there's chewy. Star Wars is sci fi fantasy where continuity has been maintained. I visit the SW universe (re reading sw books) for escape, not to have my favorite characters killed. I wish that the aithor could have developed Kip more, but it was good to see he's a master now.
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