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Summary: You call this a Star Wars book!!!
Review: Wow, did this book ever suck! I ordered this book a long time ago and very eagerly awaited its arrival, but within the first twenty pages, I was forcing myself to read it. Mr. McDowell makes all the charactes extremely superficial, and the bad guys extremely fake. I'm sadly disappointed, but I will forge on to finish the trilogy while trying not to gag!!!
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Summary: The worst Star Wars trilogy ever!!!
Review: This is the worst trilogy and set of books ever written for Star Wars. If you thought Kevin J. Anderson was bad, think again! Michael P. Kube-McDowell is definetely the king of idiots!! This book is nothing at all like the original Star Wars or some of the better novels written by authors like Timothy Zahn. McDowell deludes and warps all of the characters, downgrades the richness of the Star Wars universe, creates a boring, stupid, and messed up plot that follows nothing that I think of as being like to Star Wars. The entire Qella and White Current things were McDowell's pitiful attempts at making his own death star and force. He has ruined a valuable section of the Star Wars timeline that a better author could have filled with an interesting and quality book that likens to the original Star Wars trilogy. Don't read this trilogy unless you're a die hard Star Wars fan like me because you will think just a little less of that sci-fi fantasy that we have all grown to love and cherish. Also, I bet the people that wrote reviews of 7 or more about this book are either insane or have never seen the original trilogy. Thanks for your time.
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Summary: Wonderful series!! A must-have for SW fans!!!
Review: The whole series is absolutely wonderful. The plot is great, and the story runs smoothly; although at times, the "Vagabond" concept was a little hard to grasp. One of the most interesting plots was Leia's resignation. The trilogy is full of suspense. The author sure knows how to make you want to turn the page. The ship that Kube-McDowell comes up with is unlike any other I've seen in any of the SW books, or ANY book, for that matter. It is a must-have for any science fiction fan.
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Summary: not true star wars
Review: This book, and also the whole Black fleet series, was really not very good. I love star wars novels and found the series to be uncharacteristic of star wars. All the characters seem out of wack. There are also too many new factors, like an "E-wing" that take it away from classic star wars atmosphere. On the other hand, it really has some solid action and evil bad guys.
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Summary: A bad book for the true fan
Review: What most bothered me about this book is the poor characterizations and the blatant disregard for what Lucas has set down in his movies. I found the characters and their relationships unbelievable. Luke is able to reform matter and unable to discuss important matters with Leia, when the twin's relationship has always been described as one of the most binding in the SW Universe? At the same time, Leia is still distrusts her Force talents when other books (including the Dark Force series) have already wiped away that image; she is also a hysterical, gullible leader who, when confronted with the disastrous results of actions, promptly does -- nothing but lock herself away while the galaxy falls apart. But most of all, while I understand - for personal reasons - Luke's and Leia's quests to find out about their mother, the whole premise fails for a reason set in the movies themselves. Do I really need to remind the author or the readers how Yoda explained the Jedi ability to look into the past? To see what exactly happened regarding events or loved ones? So if Luke wants to know about his mother, he can use the Force to see her: who she was, her name, how she lived and died. Instead, the author ignores this important sequence in "The Empire Strikes Back", even though he has enhanced Luke's abilities to a Zeus-like level, and has the Jedi Master fall for someone's story that his mother being possibly alive and a part of an undiscovered Force group. As I cannot ignore what Lucas, the Star Wars creator, has described in his movies, I cannot enjoy a book that blatantly does. The author took good concepts - adoptive/foster children and their self discovery, and a government and its leader facing a powerful, uncompromising enemy - and his ability to write some good, descriptive scenes and ideas and tarnished them with ignorance of Star Wars universe and its characters
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Summary: YUK!
Review: How can any Starwarsfan like this book? Come on folks, we all loved Starwars because there were heroes and villains and it was pure "black and white", the good and the bad....
I don't want to hear stories about Leia, raising the children, about Jacen getting fat while hanging around in his room etc. I can watch soap operas if I want such themes....
Not to mention Skywalker in this book...hey, Mr. Kube, after all he's only a man not a god! I was about to flush this book down the next toilet when I read about Skywalker reconstructing the black fortress out of it's ruins only by using his mind. Not to mention the Jumping-down-a-cliff-just-for-fun-Scene...
Closely looked at the book and the characters in it they have nothing to do with the "original" ones from the SW-Universe we know and love. But this seems to be the trend, since all the new books in the SW-Series are getting worse.
So, all you "real" SW-Fans out there, better stick to "Splinter of the minds eye" and "Truce at Bakura" if you want to read about your true heroes.
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Summary: The Skywalker twins start to find out who they are
Review: Both Leah and Luke are on a quest to find out who they really are and the answers are not what they expect. The LIGHT is a new dimension that Luke must come to know and understand for him to grow. Leah is burnt out with politics and must relight her fire. A nice side (so far) story is Lando. We get to see how he came to be the man he is by following his exploits. Mr. Kube-McDowell is an exciting writer and I look forward to the next book
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Summary: New Ideas in the Starwars Universe.
Review: This book was the first Star Wars book that I have read in a while that has a new story line.
Many books before it had evil vilans and technologies from the past,who always discovered or uncovered long forgoten remains of the Empire or even older rulers.
It was a refreshing new begining, to what was almost becoming a moniteny of Star Destroyers and Deathstars, but now a race of new people who were oppresed by the Empire now wish to become the new Empire...
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Summary: It lives up the the original Star Wars Trilogy
Review: This book really brings back the excitment of the original Trilogy.
I recommend this book to any Star Wars enthusiast and also anyone who would like to start reading the Star Wars novels.
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Summary: RabidFanboy
Review: As of today I'm quite happy to say I've read through all the printed Star Wars books that fit into the storyline. It's got ups and downs. This trilogy is one of those downs. There are some decent parts, the idea for the villians are very much like the Vong (with some major exceptions) from the New Jedi Order series and sometimes it seems they might even be the template. But many aspects fall through as you continue.In at least one section of each book a character is taken and butchered, made very much out of character or put through a useless side story. A freind of mine read the books and commented "...its's an excuse for Luke to have sex in hyperspace". Sadly, that just about sums up the kind of pointless side paths that this trilogy takes. I would say read if you must, there is some information that is nice to know, but don't expect anything grand.
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