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Summary: pretty good
Review: wasnt too bad not as good as the stackpole series but good nuff
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Summary: Best NJO book yet!
Review: Two of the things that were missing from the NJO thus far were: the characters from the Young Jedi Knights books, and Han Solo. This book fixed both of those problems. Excellent!
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Summary: Great re-introduction of our beloved Han
Review: I'll keep this short and sweet because I don't want to spoil anything... I have never read any of Luceno's work, but he does a good job continuing the New Jedi Order series. Where the previous books were more directed towards the Jedi and their contributions towards this new enemy, Hero's Trial gives us a new respect and admiration towards our lovable hero, Han Solo. He has been sorely missed due to the death of Chewbacca and now has to overcome his grief and fight in the name of Chewie. Sometimes it seems as though Han could be "Force-sensitive" for all the situations that he seems to get himself in and out of... but, that's the Corellian luck for ya. Anyway, it was an excellent book with some great insights to the character of Han and how deep his relationship with Chewie really was. The rest of the cast is also built upon nicely which promises a great follow up in Jedi Eclipse. Happy Hunting!
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Summary: This was a good Han book, but,,,,,
Review: I thought the author could have allowed Leia and Han be together more. Maybe this wasn't his call, but it would have been so much more powerful plot device if they would have done that.
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Summary: Much better than I expected!!
Review: I was going to skip over these two in the series, but decided not to. I was pleasantly surprised and I'm anxious to get the second one. The only part I'd change is more scenes with the other characters.
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Summary: ZZZZZZZ - a real sleeper
Review: Forget Nodoze man... just read this!! This is James Luceno's first star wars book, and I have to give him a little slack just because he is new. However... He failed to capture the tone, and the general overall feel of the series that the other authors had created. Although discriptive with his words, he doesn't use them to capture a scene... he just uses them to be discriptive. Text books do the same thing. Although he did try to do some funky stuffs wuth his approach... like writing from Threepio's view at Chewie's funeral... he just doesn't pull it off. He doesn't advance the plot, or add to the charector at all; (this entire book is about Han.) And I don't know Han any better now than I did before. 350+ pages of total waste.
An A for effort. A failing grade overall.
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Summary: Good book...Bad space battles
Review: A great addition to the NJO, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Written well enough...my main critique comes in Luceno's handling of space battles. A major part of the Star Wars Universe involves squadrons of fighters and ships going to blows in Space Combat; however, Luceno needs to work on this aspect of his writing. His space battles are lacking and pale in comparison to the rest of his exciting story. With the first battle scene, I thought he was trying to avoid writing the details, which actually might have been better than him trying to do so (which he attempts later in the story). He does wrap up some annoying parts of the NJO saga extremely well and makes the saga ready to move on. These things include: Han's pouting over Chewbacca's death and Mara's illness. I think these things were annoying him as much as they were me...so he got rid of them. Bravo! Overall, I think he is an excellent addition to the SW universe, and he has written a great book.
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