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Summary: It lacked action, but I still love it!!!!!
Review: "The Crystal Star" was probably one of the most unusual SW books I have ever read. But it still deserves 5 stars for three reasons.1)Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin are main characters in this story. Except for the YJK series, no other SW book had portrayed the kids as main characters. 2)This book introduced brand-new characters- such as Rillao, Hethrir, Waru, and Xaverri. Most other SW books just use up characters over and over again. 3)The adults were written good as well. It was cool when Leia and Chewie disguised themselves as bounty hunters and found all those disabled refugee ships. I laughed when Han almost cheated on Leia and when he got drunk. I just wished that Ms. McIntyre had written more about Luke, though. We barely saw him in the middle of the story. Of course, this book had some cons too as well as pros. 1)It lacked any action whatsoever. No blaster battle, no lightsaber duels, and no space battle. And those Proctor guys made stormtroopers look good. 2)Who or what is that Waru blob? 3)Chewie and Threepio were poorly written. Chewie limped around throughout the whole book (I thought he had healing powers), and Threepio wasn't as annoying as he usually was. Overall, this was a very great book. It's worthy of the name Star Wars.
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Summary: A fair attempt.
Review: Look, you have got to give people some credit. i hate it when people complain about perfectly fine books. Vonda McEntyre is a wonderful author in her own sense, and I would love to see you try to write a SW novel. In fact, my gal Vonda and I would laugh in your pathetic faces. Get a clue! I must confess that this is the second book review that I have written on this book. The first one was before I read those hurtful, stinging, unhuman reviews. You are not worthy of this "slime". She has strange concepts, but, bascially, beautiful characters. If it was as bad as you say, would it be published? Nay.
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Summary: this is the worst star wars book available
Review: ridiculous plot, dull characters, dumba** presuppositions, no explanations and pathetic attempts at grandeur do not a good book make.
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Summary: Stinker.
Review: I got ten pages then tossed it across the room and gave it the cross symbol. AVOID.
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Summary: This book was crummy!
Review: "The Crystal Star", how sappy of a name can you get? That was hardly the worst part. The whole plot was predictable (however screwed up it was), and the main people like Luke and Han, etc. etc. etc. were completely out of character. I read the book just because I'm somewhat obsessed with Star Wars, merely because Timothy zahn wrote fabulouse books, and i'm hoping someone will come close to his genious. That hasn't happened yet, and I doubt it ever will if they keep publishing cruddy books like this. I despised this book. People should be ashamed to let slime like this earn the name Star Wars. it's about as close to being Genuine Star Wars as a tauntaun corpse is to being a Jedi. Get with it people. If you have an urge to read somthing laughable, this is ot bad to consider. Stay away from this book AT ALL COST! I would pay a great deal of money to never open the cover of this book again.
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Summary: I loved this book a whole bunch!!!
Review: This book is the best Star Wars book out there, and beleive me I have read just about every one of them, because it is from Jaina's point of view and she is my favorite character. Buy this book!!!
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Summary: This book was not enjoyable.
Review: After the first few chapters, I knew that this book was not good. But I read it anyway because as a Star Wars historian, I have got to know it all. Characters out of character, predictable plot (Wow, Crseih Station = Asylum Station. Who would have guessed?), and unresearched facts on the Star Wars universe is this novel's downfall. Luke igniting his lightsaber on and off because he's bored? No. Jedi light their lightsabers only when ready for combat (or training). A parallel universe in Star Wars? No, it doesn't work. Emporer Palpatine sanctioned alien Dark Jedi Hethrir? No. A flying planet? No. Too Star Trekky, which McIntyre usually writes. The writer did not introduce any new interesting characters, settings or situations. Hethrir; Boo! Mundo Codru; Boo! A worshipped Force-thing; Boooooo! Clearly, when Trek writers try to write Star Wars, it just doesn't work. Just like with Barabara Hambly. Her books had many shortcomings, as well. Good story lies in character, plain and simple. It doesn't matter if you have weird exotic lifeforms, a hard sci-fi plot, and off the wall situations. What matters is the things characters go through and how they deal with them. The impending doom of Thrawn's attempted conquest in Timothy Zahn's series, the political propaganda, intrigue and bashing of Leia in Michael P. Kube-McDowell's series, strong development of new characters in Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing stint, Han's desperate try to keep Leia in Dave Wolverton's novel. This is what makes story. This is what I want when I read Star Wars.
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Summary: One of the worst Star Wars books
Review: This book was a little too weird and didn't have the same "Star Wars" aura. I had a hard time believing that Leia would act the way she did, especially blaming and holding a grudge against Chewbacca. Furthermore, I never felt that Luke was real. He seemed a skeleton of himself. The only plus side of this book was a little glimpse into the development of Leia's kids and how they used their powers. But I think that the Corellian Trilogy does a much better job at that(the kids) too.
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: I think that you people out there who think this book stinks need to get a life. This book proves that a woman can write just as good or better than a man. It's great to have a book that lets the reader in on the personalities of the Solo children. I just love well written bad guys!
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Summary: Unfortunate, very unfortunate
Review: This book made no sense in many places. First of all, it makes no sense how this Hethrir guy could prevent anyone from using the force, secondly it is really confusing how a person could be born of two force users, and be unable to use the force at all. Also, there were two different uses stated for the use of Crseih, one was to harness the forces of the black hole, and another was that it was used to test methods of "coercion and death... on sentient subjects." Even if there were two uses for the station, you would think that Rillao would have mentioned that it was also used in an attempt to harness the powers of the black hole. She also would have mentioned that Asylum Station was also known as Crseih Station. You would also expected whoever took over Crseih would have moved the station to a safer place away from the black hole, even if the radiation sheilds were holding. And the person running the station would have at least moved it when the Crystal Star's orbit was decaying. However, if you can't make the jump into hyperspace when you are in a gravity field, how did they escape when they were so close to the black hole. Then there is so much having to do with the cruelty to the children, cruelty similar to that happens, maybe not now, but has probably happened in the past. Mcintyre really talked about it way too much, way too much. That Wyrwulf was really boring me the whole way through as well. The action involving Anakin was really crammed into the last sixty pages too. The plot was actually slightly okay, but otherwise annoying.
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