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Summary: Predictable and Slow
Review: I read any and every Star Wars book that I can get my hands on. The Bounty Hunter Wars series was no exception. About now, I'm wishing that I wasn't such a die-hard fan! I've always bben intrigued by the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back and I usually like to know the secrets behind the characters in the background of the trilogy. However, this novel doesn't give much insight into anyone except Bossk. This is the sequel to Mandalorian Armor, and the second book in The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy. A dancing girl that escaped from Jabba the Hutt's Palace is searching for keys to her past. She knows she wasn't always one of Jabba's slaves, and that Boba Fett is somehow involved. In this part of the trilogy, Boba Fett has healed from his injuries in the Sarlaac Pit and is on his way to an unknown destination in a stolen ship with Neelah (the slave dancer) and Dengar (his savior) in tow. Along the way, Neelah forces information about Boba Fett out of Dengar. There are some scenes with Prince Xizor, but each scene seems to be a repeat performance of the first. Kud'ar Mub'at started off as an interesting character, but then became increasingly annoying. What happens to his character is pretty predictable considering that the author finds it necessary to remind us several times how Kud'ar Mub'at came into power in the first place (I won't tell you what happens in case you decide you still want to read this series). The book starts slow, gets slower, and finally, at the end, begins to pick up speed. However, by then, most people would have lost interest. I'm still trying to figure out what Neelah has to do with all of this. At least in this sequel, we finally begin to realize why Kuat Drive Yards' Administrator wants Boba Fett dead. Hopefully, the third book in the series will be the best. If you're a die-hard fan like I am, then you'll read this book. Otherwise, I suggest you ship this series - you won't be missing much.
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Summary: Could have been MUCH better
Review: OK, first off, this book is EXTREMELY slow! It is very repetitive and boring. I started this book on my last day of school at the end of May, and didn't finish it until Labor Day, no exaggeration. I wasted my entire summer vacation trying to get through this book when I could have been reading something better, like the New Jedi Order or the Thrawn Trilogy. The only reason why I read this book at all was because I am curious to discover some of the answers to the mysteries. Before I started the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, I thought that they would be very action packed and addictive, but they are the exact opposite. I absolutely HATED all the parts with Kudar Mu'bat. He is so annoying! Also, the jumping between time periods was confusing and unnecessary. It should have all just been written in chronological order, like every other book in the universe. The only reason why this book deserves any stars at all is because the beggining and end have some action in them. Oh yeah, and it serves as a great door stopper and/or paper weight. Only read this book if you want to know every minor detail about Star Wars.
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Summary: Book 2 is the least of the trilogy
Review: This review is for the Audio Casette. The events in this book is supposed to take place in year 4 ANH on the timeline. Xizor is in this book and Xizor dies during year 3 so one could say this book takes place somewhere between NH and right up to his death just before the events in Shadows of the Empire and ROTJ. Having said that, the book starts by telling us how Boba Fett survives the Sarlacc. Huh? You put this trilogy on the time line where you want.Of all the books and comics about the bounty hunters, this one is clearly the best, and most informative. It looks like a lot of people liked this book less than I did by all the 1 star reviews and lack of 5 star reviews. I may have liked the story, in fact the entire trilogy because I have yet to read the books, only listened to the audio. I drive a lot and also listen while exercising. The audio is very abridged because about 1,100 pages are condensed into 7.5 hours of very enjoyable listening. Plus, check out the performance from the reader Anthony Heald, he is awesome. The point that my review doesn't mean the others were wrong if they thought the story was slow and boring. Bantam cut a lot of stuff out for the audio, and sometimes that is a good thing. I do wish that they offered unabridged, but they seldom do. Characters? They are all here plus some interesting new characters. In the audio version one is really drawn to the Dengar character and Neelah. Made me buy a couple 4 inch action figures after the first time I listened to this trilogy. I have gone through it at least twice so far. The title is misnomer and selected for marketing reasons only. Even the trilogy title, Bounty Hunter Wars is a misnomer. A more accurate title would BH Treachery. Want to know more about the Mandalorian's and their armor, check out the Dark Horse comics, Amazon.com has most of the old ones available in new and used. The reviews for the second book in the trilogy are even more scathing. Book 3 delivered for most. I liked all three. Some of the redundancy that was book 2 wasn't apparent in the audio version. So I recommend going on a road trip of at least 7.5 hours, pop in the cassette and enjoy this trilogy
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Summary: A little bit better and a whole lot worse...
Review: This book continues the {mis}adventures started in Book 1 of the Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy, The Mandalorian Armor with varying success. Neelah is still on her quest to piece together her past, Fett and Bossk are still up to same old, same old, Xizor and Mub'at are still plotting, and on it goes. This book also follows the same storylines - one right after A New Hope and one during Return of the Jedi - started in the first one. First off I'd like to recommend not reading this book immediately after finishing Mandalorian Armor. I tried to do that twice, and was utterly unable to get into it. The author assumes the reader hasn't read the first book, and thus does too much recapping of previous events. Jeter is almost Lumley-esque in this regard. An author should assume that when a reader starts the second book in a trilogy that the reader is intelligent enough to have read the first one. The most annoying thing about this book is what made the first book so difficult - many of the familiar characters and very misrepresented. Dengar is and emotional, cowardly idiot-wimp, Fett is very talkative, prone to giving 'idiot-sheet' speeches, Vader doesn't have enough control over his emotions, etc... However, there is some very good character development in the new characters, which is overshadowed by their mere boringness. Whereas the assembler Kud'ar Mub'at was interesting in the first book and Kuat unutterably boring, in this book their roles have changed. The arachnoid in this book is predictable, and boring, while Kuat has many interesting thoughts and foresights. Too many in fact. This is another problem with the book. It is hard to read conversations when there are two pages of though between each line of spoken dialogue, for some reason it just doesn't flow that way. The author also makes the mistake of assuming the readers are inept. He has to have the characters spell out every vestige of every plan, and the dialogue often is overlong and rather speechy. The writer's writing style itself is quite basic, but he covers that up with a lot of adjectives and big thesaurus words. Another filler that he uses is that he repeats physical descriptions and names over and over again, as if afraid that the reader will forget basic stuff from paragraph to paragraph. Despite all its flaws, however, this is still a pretty good and interesting tale, raising a lot of interesting points, questions and views, while answering other which were opened in the first book. This should be read by fairly serious Star Wars fans, but it's not 'necessary' reading.
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Summary: Solid if unspectacular continuation of the Boba Fett story
Review: Slave Ship (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars, Book 2)
by K.W. Jeter, continues the story of Boba Fett immediately after the debacle in the Sarlaac's belly and in flashback to a time at the beginnings of the galactic rebellion. Jeter continues to weave in interesting characters and to make tell interesting tales, but his inclusion of the Kuati storyline makes the thrust of the trilogy increasingly predictable. He also spends too much time in Fett's head, rather than drawing primarily on people's reactions to Fett, which would make the authors point but at the same time keep an air of mystery about the bounty hunter. OVerall, Jeter writes a solid if prediactable tale outside the normal Star Wars genera, which does tend to keep the storyline nice and dark, a change during a time period when the expanded universe seemed to be going through a bit of a dry spell in the original ideas department. His ideas are new, but the way he implements them makes this book predictable but still enjoyable.
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Summary: The best bad guy in the galaxy is back in action.
Review: Picking up at the exact moment The Mandalorian Armor concluded, Slave Ship has Boba Fett (now fully recovered from his partial digestion in the Sarlacc's gut) skipping over the dangling knots of the conspiracy he helped set in motion many years before. Just as was the case in the trilogy's opening chapter, Slave Ship jumps between past (shortly after the destruction of the Death Star that concluded A New Hope) and present (roughly parallel with Return of the Jedi) as author K.W. Jeter takes us on an intimate tour of the gutter of the galaxy. While it certainly is a smartly written tale, the series lacks a sympathetic character to root for. The reader simply watches nasty people do nasty things to each other for several hundred pages, and Boba Fett is far too robotic in his characterization to seem to warrant a three book arc. Nonetheless, fans will gobble it up and ask for more.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I like this book because it's absolutely wonderful. I have this book along with Mandelorian Armor. I like the action in this book. That's what Star Wars is all about. Right? Huh? Yeah. I highly recommend this book to future fans.
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Summary: Boba Fett
Review: This is part of the Boba Fett series. It is interesting but readers should not expect the main characters from the movies (Luke, etc) to be a big part of this story.
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Summary: Scheming aplenty
Review: In this second of the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, Jeter continues the two time periods, of just after ANH, and during ROTJ. Starting in ROTJ, we find Boba Fett, Neelah and Dengar taking over Bossk's ship the Hound's Tooth, tricking Bossk that a bomb was onboard to get him to jettison in an escape pod and take over. Boba does not want the galaxy to know he is alive, so he ditches Slave I. Neelah is still looking for her true identity, while trying to extract infor from both Dengar and Boba. So, Boba Fett sets in a course to another sector of the galaxy, with no clue on where he's taking us. Besides this, not too much happens in this time frame, except for the plot around Kuat of Kuat and thechallenge by the other bloodlines on the planet to take over his operations. Somehow we find out he planted Falleen pheremomes on Tatooine to make it look like Xizor had Luke's uncle and aunt killed. Most of the action takes place in the setting just after ANH. Bossk and Boba Fett team up to capture this renegade stormtrooper, not knowing thatPrince Xizor has set a trap for Fett, with help from Palpatine and Kud'ar Mub'at, the spider like alien. Pretty good action. You can definitely see that everyone involved in this novel is looking out for number one. We get a lot of dialogue from Boba Fett in this one, which is contrary to what most think his character to be, a bounty hunter of few words. Jeter at times loves to talk, repeating things about certain characters several times during a chapter; like we would forget or something. This tended to string to the book out longer than it should have. At other times, Jeter's writing was great, especially his use of adjectives to describe a planet that Boba Fett and Bossk meet on, where centipede like creatures live, with one wrapping itself around Bossk's ankle. Overall, this was a fair to good SW book. Looking forward to the finale, Hard Merchandise.
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Summary: "Shudder"
Review: Out of respect for the serise and Fett I gave this book 2 stars. It really deserves 1. What this serise does is take better already mapped areas of the Star War universe and stings them together in a totally unconving way. For example the wounds Fett suffered and the allience with Dengar has already been discused. Why do people feel the emd to rehash it? Overall-Whole serise total waste of time(unless you like The Black Sun).
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