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Summary: Fast moving excellent read !
Review: A good piece of S.F. using multiple linked plots & locations
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Summary: Best Star Wars Trilogy Ever
Review: All in all this is the best trilogy to date.
With all the characters (especially the children) having an impact on the plot this becomes very "must read fast" Star Wars Trilogy!
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Summary: Anakin, Anakin and more Anakin.
Review: All this book cocentrated on was Anikin Skywalker. Also the ending was very dissappointing and badly rushed. The whole triloy was just a waste of time, because nothin of significance came out of this. Also many parts of the book is boring thos trilogy took me nearly 2 months t finish.
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Summary: UGH! This wasn't worth the effort
Review: As a Star Wars fan it pains me to write this, but this Trilogy was an absolute flop. No character development, plot twists that you could see from a million mlies away, and bad editing all combine to make the worst Star Wars literature to date.
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Summary: Pathetic cash-in, it takes forever for anything to happen
Review: Easily the worst trilogy of books I've ever read in terms of frustratingly boring pace, characters that are inaccurate to the movies or just indifferent. It was a struggle to resist the impulse to bin this without finishing it.
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Summary: It could have been worse
Review: First of all, to all you people complaining about the authors writting skills, if you pick up a star wars book and expect a classic piece of literature, I can tell you right now, put it down and go read catcher in the rye. You don't read SW books for the writing, you read them for the plot, the story, the action. So what if Allen writes like he failed English 101, its STAR WARS. I must admit, though, this book was pretty bad, even for a star wars book. First of all, I must have re-read the ending about twenty times, and I still don't really get who the bad guys were and why they did all the nasty stuff that they did. And where are the rest of the Jedi? The academy's been around for what, seven years? And there's not a single jedi on hand to bail out the poor new republic except for Luke, and Mara if you even count her as a Jedi at this point. Another thing, even though I like the fact that Allen brought the Solo kids into the story, he really overdid it with Anakin. This seven year old kid is made out to be some sort of superhero, Luke cubed, I mean come on. Like that's remotley realistic, even for the Star Wars Universe. The one aspect of the story that I can find no fault with was Q9. He was just hilarius, and I wish he could replace R2-D2. The idea of centerpoint station and it's origins was interesting. I wish it were more developed in later books. The best thing about this books was it's length. Unlike Timothy Zahn and Barbara Hambly, Allen didn't always say in a hundred words what he could have said in ten. The plot was engaging enough to keep me reading, and that's all I really ask for in a Star Wars book.
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Summary: Greatly enjoyable book.
Review: I greatly enjoyed reading this book. I like how Anakin and the twins "turned the tables" on their evil cousin Thraken Sal-Solo. That part of the story really made me laugh. I could hardly put this book down! All in all, a great book.
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Summary: Much potential and many ideas wasted
Review: I just finished this book and it mostly disappoints. Rushed ending, an original idea but the enemies were vague and somewhat unsinister; just like a mediocre movie, I kept thinking how the characters and ideas were wasted. Oh, and someone gets married (or at least it's implied) and another character dies. Won't tell you who but it wasn't done well. I wasn't emotionally involved. By the way, when is someone going to write a book that is less sci-fi and has more of the Force? THAT is Star Wars, not space battles and firefights. The Star Wars fans love the Force. It's the original thrust behind the whole storyline. Luke and Han are boring, unspecial characters in most of the books. Including here.
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Summary: the end justifies
Review: I just had to review this one because for one thing I've reviewed the first two and, for another, this is the best of the trilogy. It's not Hugo material or anything, but hey, it's Star Wars! We read them because the films entertained us and we hope the books will too. Well, this one delivers on that. The action picked up in the second book, and really comes to a head in this one. What seemed to start as a small potatoes bid for independence (or non-interference, as is more the case here) now takes on higher stakes when millions of lives are threatened by the Starbuster superweapon. The superweapon is always a tried and true element in Star Wars, even if a bit overdone, but it's still fun. You get to see some really good scenes with Mara Jade and Leia having to work together, and there's more of the Bakurans in this one, too (enjoy it while you can, it's the last book to date that they show up in). But the best part of the book is that the major conflict is resolved in an epic space battle, something we really do see far too little of in Star Wars, especially ones written as well as this one was. If you felt you had to plod through the first two books (which was almost undoubtedly the case for the first book if not the second) then you'll be glad you make it this far to see the payoff. Roger MacBride Allen actually gave us a decent trilogy. The best part of it was that there was NO EMPIRE. I get tired of the Comeback Kings popping up all the time. My regards to the author for giving us a break.
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Summary: the end justifies
Review: I just had to review this one because for one thing I've reviewed the first two and, for another, this is the best of the trilogy. It's not Hugo material or anything, but hey, it's Star Wars! We read them because the films entertained us and we hope the books will too. Well, this one delivers on that. The action picked up in the second book, and really comes to a head in this one. What seemed to start as a small potatoes bid for independence (or non-interference, as is more the case here) now takes on higher stakes when millions of lives are threatened by the Starbuster superweapon. The superweapon is always a tried and true element in Star Wars, even if a bit overdone, but it's still fun. You get to see some really good scenes with Mara Jade and Leia having to work together, and there's more of the Bakurans in this one, too (enjoy it while you can, it's the last book to date that they show up in). But the best part of the book is that the major conflict is resolved in an epic space battle, something we really do see far too little of in Star Wars, especially ones written as well as this one was. If you felt you had to plod through the first two books (which was almost undoubtedly the case for the first book if not the second) then you'll be glad you make it this far to see the payoff. Roger MacBride Allen actually gave us a decent trilogy. The best part of it was that there was NO EMPIRE. I get tired of the Comeback Kings popping up all the time. My regards to the author for giving us a break.
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