Wraith Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 5)

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Summary: Action-packed beginning of a new era
Review: Aaron has an exceptional ability to develop memorable, realistic characters. In some parts the dialog for older characters is a little forced, but he more than makes up for this in the plethora of new, exciting characters and situations. The change in squadron focus (commandos who fly X-wings, instead of pilots who sometimes act as commandos) opens up fantastic new avenues for adventure, and Aaron wastes little time getting us into exactly that. You'll come to indentify with, and care about, even the more annoying characters in short order. If you liked Mike Stackpole's four X-wing novels, you'll love this one. I'm going to go right now and set up "eyes" to alert me when the next one's ready; I can't wait.

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Summary: What A Let Down!
Review: The story line of this book was very exciting and obviously required much talent on the authors part, but the amount of Star Wars books are growing in number, and the characters with in these books also grow more annoying than possibly imaginable. I'm not sure if it's just me but Kell Tainer is the most irritating, aggrivating annoying batch of rebel scum, demolitions guy ever to be invented. The only way the author could possibly redeem himself would be to kill Kell Tainer and his annoying girlfriend in the most painfull method imaginable and install Myn Donos as the main character. Phew!

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Summary: Could be a lot lot better !!!!!
Review: I have read all the other X-Wing books. They were all really good, when I came to read Wraith squadron I was looking forward to it. When I started to read it I was dissapointed it just got worse. With annoying and silly characters. While Corran Horn being slightly annoying yet cool, Kell Tainer is the most annoying demolitions person ever to be in a book. Possibly the best part is where Grinder dies. I hope Iron Fist is better it could not be much worse.

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Summary: The tradition of great X-Wing books is carried on
Review: This book greatly deserves the name X-Wing. It has even more action (if that's possible) than the previous books by Michael A. Stackpole. I think it was great thanks to a new addition, humor. The only problem is that the second primary charecter, Kell Tainer, is annoying, and not someone you will enjoy as much as Corran Horn. All in all it was a great book.

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Summary: A differnt squadron but a whole lot of action!
Review: Wraith Squadron was one is one of the best books in the X-Wing series. It is only one-upped by the original book Rouge Squadron. You get to meet new characters such as Myn Donos, but still has fimiliar characters such as the great Wedge Antilles and his friend Wes Janson. Wedge formed this group with Admiral Ackbar as a covert operations group, and they live up to that role, destroying Imperial base after base. It is a great book, and a fine addition to this great series.

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Summary: Wraiths vs Trigit
Review: Wraith Squadron was a very cool book. The characters were well made and all had different personalities. My favorite characters were Kell and Face. The plot was cool, when they take the Corellian Corvette Night Caller and bluff the Imps into believing that they are Captain Darillian and his crew. The Wraiths then destroy each Imperial facility they are supposed to come to for Warlord Zsinj, but they attack after the Night Caller leaves to act as if they have been followed. Trigit was a good villan, and I'm glad Myn Donos destroyed him at the end. Any Star Wars fan would love this book.

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Summary: The best X wing book yet
Review: Aaron Allston did a great job with X-Wing Wrath Squad. I liked the undercover stuff but I missed out on the Space battles which I like the Most. Read this book. You'll love it. My only complaint is it might get to confusing with Rouge and Wraith squads in later books

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Summary: Different but still good
Review: I, like other readers, was apprehensive about Aaron Allston's continuation of Mike Stackpole's excellent and gripping X-Wing series. But I read an interview with Stackpole in which he said that he was helping Mr. Allston with his novel and that he was confident about the results. I figured, how bad can it be, given a statement like that? I was pleasantly surprised to find that in some ways, this book is every bit as good as Stackpole's. I would recommend for other fans of the X-Wing series to not hesitate to read this book. The characterizations - at least of those characters who carry over - are accurate, with Wedge showing his usual b*lls in dressing down an out-of-line candidate, and Admiral Ackbar with his usual mix of wisdom, benevolent authority and dry humor. The only thing I found lacking was an in-depth portrayal of Warlord Zsinj, which I was looking forward to. In the first three Rogue books, Iceheart is a great villain, quietly menacing yet powerfully evil, like a venomous snake coiled up in its lair. But in the fourth book, she turned bickery and petty and deluded, just asking to be vaped. So I was looking forward to a good strong believable "bad guy" again. My conclusion is, either Mr. Allston isn't terribly confident about writing the bad guy parts or he, as a reader, finds those parts boring! 'Fess up now, how many of you skimmed through the "Isard talking to Loor" parts to get back to the "Rogue Squadron in action" parts? The funny parts were good, nice to see a little humor in these stories for a change. One thing that rankled me was Allston's naming of the X- wing's S-foils "strike foils" rather than "stabilizer foils" as Stackpole so clearly calls them many times in his books. Little stuff like that p*sses me off. Oh well. Altogether, a good first effort and I'm looking forward to the next one!

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Summary: The Force is with this author
Review: This is the first X-Wing book I've ever read. I loved it. I was glad that it didn't tie in with the previous books. I loved the part about the Ewok pilot, that was so funny. I laughed out loud everytime I looked at the page. I hope he writes another X-Wing book just as funny.

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Summary: Good, solid read. Wastes no time or humor. Yub yub!
Review: An excellent opening salvo from new series writer Allston. He pulls off a fine blend of action, humor, characterization, and drama(with the emphasis on humor.) The only problems I have with this book is that I wished it was longer, and I'm going to have to wait a few months for the next book; and a fantastic character is introduced, Imperial Fighter Ace Baron Fel, who shows up too late in the book to be explored. However, perhaps he will be featured prominently in the next novel. People, read this one. Michael Stackpole's novels were great, but definitely had the emphasis on drama. Allston's book is just as good, only he chose to focus on the humor a bit more. But it works!