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Summary: Fine Start
Review: Vector Prime commences a new series in the Star Wars universe, creating a new generation of enemies in its wake. This book was quite refreshing, thanks to Salvatore's unique perspective and creativity, especially in regards to the brilliant, intriguing new organic technology employed by the Jedis' foes. A drastic departure from the behemoth battle machines (i.e. Death Star) that so easily populate the Star Wars universe and its novels, this brings about a renewed excitement and serves up a great new beginning.Fans of Salvatore's prior fantasy works should see more than a little connection here. Salvatore effectively uses his nearly trademark one-on-one battle descriptions in the book, making every fight rich and fast-paced, with every slash and parry felt. At points, the plots really accelerates and at these locations, the story stretches thin. Thus some parts of the book are not entirely satisfying. However, because of this, much of the book is action packed, and the pages should flip quite quickly. Even though this is only Salvatore's first time at writing a Star Wars novel, he does touch upon a variety of old characters, one of which caused quite a controversy among the most pious fans of the Star Wars universe. -Xiao Zhu
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Summary: Great intro to a new story arc
Review: The first of the New Jedi Order series is a page-turner...well-constructed plot leaves room for expansion, continues development of established characters, and introduces a slew of new ones. Has the New Republic finally met its match? Probably not. At least not until fans lose interest and sales revenues drop drastically...It's Star Wars...if nothing else, it should be entertaining, correct? This book is ample entertainment for the cover price...cheaper than a movie and you can read it more than once...
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Summary: A Baseball Cap?!?
Review: Epilogue - Han takes out an old CAP which says "it's a both". WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? I have a hard time imagining Leia gave Han a hat with something like that on it. I am an adult and realize this merely fiction, but come on. What a stupid ending. If you are reading this one finish it quickly and get to Stackpole's two novels, they redeem the series.
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Summary: Definite Buy!
Review: At first I just scanned through the book looking for areas of action with Jacen, Anakin, and Jaina since I basically hated all the other characters! But then when I went back and read everything, OMG! It was excellent and really compelling! I couldn't put it down - and the battle scenes are well described, the new characters fit in well into the Star Wars universe, and the reality of the characters is great! Though some parts near the end were a bit too awkward, overall, I definitely recommend it!
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Summary: Not as bad as everyone says...
Review: I thought this was a pretty decent book. It got better the farther into it you got. What I didn't like was how the author never explained how the New Republic got the Star Destroyers. Sure, I've read Zahn's books, so I really do know, but it has been a few years. And I haven't bridged the gap between Vision of the Future and Vector Prime. Also, ships killed in battle "go away", they don't blow up. Very confusing. I found the killing off of a major character to be unnecessary. They were one of the most beloved characters in the Star Wars universe. Aside from all that, the action was great. I loved the descriptions of the Jedi Solo kids flying together. Breathtaking! And finally, the action takes place in Space!!! This is Star Wars!! Maybe I am just frustrated with Episode 1, but it seems like lately people have forgotten about the great space battles that caused Star Wars to become so popular. This book returns to that concept nicely. All in all, not bad, can't wait to read the rest!!
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Summary: A hard slog
Review: Boy what a hard slog. I only kept at this book because the next two in the New Jedi Order series are by Michael Stackpole. Speed-read it if you can. Why couldn't Del Rey commission Timothy Zahn to write in this arc?
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Summary: This will be a book long remembered....
Review: ...as the book that set the mood from the first page. Boring!! And really, did the author really need to kill of Chewbacca? I think Chewbacca was one of the funniest characters in the Star Wars Saga. What's with the lightsaber descriptions? Are they just a blade of energy or do they have some color? NO CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS!! What does Bolpuhr look like? It seems that when a new character is introduced he is basically killed in the next twenty pages. Example: The Star Destroyer Commander. The map in the first two pages is completely useless. Where is Naboo? Where is Anoat? Where is Dagobah? But still a good read.
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Summary: Could have been better....
Review: I'm somewhat schizophrenic in my attitude to this book. On the one hand, I think it stays very true to the characters and general feel of the Star Wars universe, and the Yuuzhan Vong are really cool villains, different to anything seen before in Star Wars. I like the characterisation of the Solo kids as 15/16 year olds, and the combat scenes are well done. On the other hand, some bits of the book practically had me wincing in pain. Now, I know Star Wars is not 'hard' science fiction but there's just too much downright ridiculous stuff going on! It's implied but not stated that the Yuuzhan Vong travelled between galaxies *without* using hyperdrive. This means they travelled faster than light in normal space, which just isn't possible (it certainly doesn't sound like they took several million years for the trip, which they would have had to do if they went at sublight). And let's draw a veil over the idea of things with wings flying around in the vacuum of space.... As for the last-minute solution at the end, it's so poorly explained it's like something out of a 50s B-movie. Apart from the pseudoscience, I found a few of the situations and events very contrived. However, I'm still planning to continue with the New Jedi Order series (the next two books are written by a different author, which may alleviate some of the problems I had with this one). Vector Prime has set the scene adequately for one heck of a war...
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Summary: Total Dreck!
Review: Salvatore has no sense of the characters or society of the Star Wars universense; no talent for plotting (too much exposition, too little action, major plot points--e.g., Mara's illness--dumped on the reader with no setup, no tension or emotional affect--he kills a major character & it has absolutely no impact on either the storyline or reader) and an extremely mealy-mouthed attitude toward violance (e.g., ships don't blow up--they just 'go away');
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Summary: The ending was ruined
Review: I just wanted to thank a few people for spoiling this books tragedy. Now to the review. This is my first Star Wars book that I've read. I found that this book started off a little too slow. Overall, I would say the book was a decent read, but don't go in with too high of expectations.
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