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Summary: Interesting, dough a bit gullible by time to time
Review: The courtship of Princess Leia is a combination of a true Star Wars plot with a walt disney farytale. I trully enjoyed this book except the part where Luc is reborn despite he that he got killed
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Summary: This book is the best science fiction I've read.
Review: I thought that The Courtsip of Princess Leia was amazing. The non-stop action, the great space battles. I couldn't put it down. This book tells alot about the story of Luke Skywalker with new characters, It's probably the best Star Wars book ever
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Summary: This is an amazing book with action and intrigue.
Review: Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia, is an amazing book that picks up on the action right where the movie's left off. I was amazed when I read this book, and the action just never quit. It is a smart, funny, action-packed,
thrill ride through and across the galaxy with a kidnapping as the plot. Now, if these aren't the ingredients to a great
book, you'll just have to cook me up something and serve it to
me on a silver platter, because this is one of the greatest books
I have ever read. This book fed my hunger for knowledge as well as comedy, and it kept me reading for hours on end searching for more of this delightfully delicious story. I
highly recommend this book to anyone out there who loves Star Wars, science fiction, action, drama, mystery, and lots
of action. If you think this sounds great, you'd better pick up this book which was masterfully written by Dave Wolverton.
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Summary: Misogynistic crap
Review: It's painfully obvious that a man who knows little to nothing about women and/or romance wrote this book. A woman who is in _love_, as Leia is with Han, wouldn't just dump her man two seconds after some hot looking guy with a boatload of money and power came along. A woman not in love might, but that's not what we're talking about here -- it's obvious that the author probably has little experience with woman or perhaps love, and is enacting his own warped view of what women want, or how they would react in such a situation. Maybe he's got a couple of bad relationships under his belt.
Just as bad is how completely out of character the people in the book are...Leia comes off as shrewish and completely unable to make up her mind (as well as unloyal and unloving, since you know, she's supposed to be in love with Han, yet goes around kissing and making up to this other guy). Han comes off as a bit moronic (well, more than usual), and Luke is far too powerful in his Jedi powers.
Then you've got two different societies in which woman have all the power, and basically treat men as slaves. Does Dave Wolverton think that a woman with power can only revert to treating men as slaves? Is he _hoping_ that's what would happen? There's some weird kinky overtones to this, as well as some general resentment and hatred of women that makes the book painful to read. Young men with retarded social abilities or no real sexual or romantic experience might get a kick out of it. I hated it.
Dreadful, dreadful book. If I could give it zero stars, I would.
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Summary: Well done if standard Star Wars book
Review: This book is a well written adition to the Star Wars Universe. While not as complex as the Zahn books or the Stackpole books, it is a strong story with an interesting concept. One assumes that Han and Leia will be together happily ever after at the end of Return of the Jedi, but what if there were some bumps in the road on the way to happy marriage? Wolverton explores this path, by having a rival for Han Solo show up. Now normally Han Solo would just laugh at a rival, but this guy seems just too perfect for Leia. Han and Leia argue and seem to break up. In desperation, Han kidnaps Leia and takes to to a planet won in a card game that happens to be in the territory of an Imperial Warlord who hates General Solo personally. Luke and the jilted suitor followeventually everyone is shot down on this planet which is inhabited by force powerful "witches" who are engaged in a battle between light and dark. This book, while it might not have alot of depth, is just alot of fun to read. The new characters the Prince of Hapes and Tenneil Djo are a great addition to the expanded universe. It is unfortunate that it is not until the Young Jedi Knights series that these characters are in any way used again. Overall I have to say this is a fun, enjoyable and recommended Star Wars book.
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Summary: More than just a love story . . . an epic
Review: The Courtship of Princess Leia immediately begins with the conflict between Han Solo and the impressive Prince Isolder, bringing all the hopes that Leia and Han would marry to a halt. It is obvious to any Star Wars fan that Han and Leia are married in later novels, and to think the conflict to be trivial would be incorrect. Fortunately, that conflict is only actually a tool used to create the larger story by forcing Han to kidnap Leia and take her to the remote world of Dathomir, which is under Imperial control by the Warlord Zsinj.It is on this plant that the real story begins. With the Falcon broken down on the strange and beautiful planet, Han, Leia, and Chewie try to find a way to escape before Warlord Zsinj finds out. Also, Luke teams with Isolder to find Han and Leia on this world. Once all the major characters are on Dathomir, they discover a new society of "witches" who battle for supremacy. These witches utilize both the light side of the force (by the White Singing Clan) and dark side of the force(by the Nightsisters). I can't recommend this novel more. The Courtship of Princess Leia is more than just a love story - it is a novel of epic determination, old traditions battling new possibilities, and an adventurous battle that could only mirror the old battles of Hoth and Endor. It is a must read for anyone thinking of reading the expanding universe.
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