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Summary: Twists and Turns will keep you hooked
Review: Some of the other reviewers have failed to realize that Luke is not the main character in this book there are other valid characters in the Star Wars Universe and not everything has to end with a LightSaber duel! Personally I thought that the children made the story even if some parts were a little confusing the end pulled it all together! The build up was excellent and the details were superb Vonda N. McIntyre painted vivid menatal pictures the whole way through, it made me feel like I was watching an excellent Star Wars movie. The climax, though predicatble was griping, and once you thought you were into the final stretch even more twists awaited. The Crystal Star does a service to the Star Wars name it is well worth your time and money. BUY IT TODAY!
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Summary: Who'd want to read it?
Review: I made the mistake of buying this book when I was thirteen. I'm seventeen now, and I haven't picked it up since I first finished reading it (hell, I needed a shovel to plough through it!) It's a waste of otherwise useful paper. The characters have no depth. That might be okay for Star Trek, but this is a whole 'nother galaxy, so to speak. The situations were unrealistic. Leia's kids are kidnapped to be fed to some otherdimensional freak, which just happens to be at the same place that Han and Luke are at, to give a psychopath more power? Puhleeeze!
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Summary: bantha fodder
Review: this one was a lemon and unfortunately i as the reader could not even make lemonade out if this storyline.
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Summary: Lea and Chewie at their best.
Review: Chrystal Star is a different novel due to the author. The predictable infallibility and general tempo of other novels is not present and I feel other critiques fail to find the interest in the children, the mother and guadian because of preconceptions from other novels. A very good readable story after chapter one. The action is all you can stand and a great mind picture of the characters can be found. I feel the book was better than the author, but don't quit. M.H. GONZALES
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Summary: Excellent work with just a pinch too much swearing
Review: This book is awesome except for one thing that really bugged me: Han swears way, way too much. He doesn't nearly as much in the other books, so I'm assuming it's part of your writing style. Other than that, a marvelous book that I intend to read over and over...
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Summary: This book was awful.
Review: I had high expectations going into the reading of this novel.I was truly let down. It was painful getting through the whole novel.Who are these characters?? Certainly not the Luke, Han and Leia we know from the movie and other Star Wars novels. Luke is just pathetic and paranoid. Vonda N.McIntyre unfortunately has no feel,knowledge or understanding of the Star Wars universe. Please save yourself the time and money and do NOT read this book!!!
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Summary: Very Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I liked this book because it was my first Star Wars novel and I was amazed at some characters.(I didn't know Leia and Han got married and had 3 kids.) The story was riveting and suspenseful.
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Summary: A great Star Wars novel with a different feeling....
Review: I bought this book, I picked it up, read it, and was caught by it. It was hard for me to put it down. It was an easy read, fast paced, and well written. Vonda N. McIntyre did a good job of bringing a Star Wars story to life with her 'own' flavor to it.In the story, Leia and Han's children have been kiddnapped. Leia desperately races to find her children and runs into an unlikely companion. Meanwhile, Luke, Han, and Threepeo are on an adventure to a distant station. Luke thinks there may be Jedi there, and Han is along for a vacation. One thing they find is Waru, a mysterious being with healing powers who ties the story together.... The Crystal Star strikes a more emotional cord, especially if you have children, so some of the younger Star Wars fans may not like it. No, it is not Zahn, but it's not suppossed to be. Each writer gives their own take on the Star Wars universe. It should not be restricted to just one thing. Highly reconmended. ***** (out of *****).
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Summary: good book, the plots flow together nicely
Review: deals with 4 plots: 1. Jaina's and Jacen's view of what is happening after they are kidnapped (I liked these parts a lot because they were based on what a child would see, and were a very interesting and likeable change from the rest. 2. Han Solo's and Luke's adventures at Asylum Station, a strange space station on the border of New Republic space 3. Leia's and Chewbacca's search to find her children. 4. Hethrir - the evil and manipulative force-sensitive kidnapper of the children. The unique thing about this book is that all the plots come together in the end, which is pretty cool. To tell you the truth I really liked the chapters that were told from Jaina's point of view the best. It was a very fun book.
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Summary: The greatest book in the SW book series!
Review: This is the greatest book in the series. I've never received a real feeling of evil from Vader, Palpatine or Thrawn. Not even Darth Maul. But this Hethrir, I hated him. He made me so mad. I really felt the evil in this man. Boy, when a new paragraph would start with the name Hethrir, Tigris, or Jaina I knew this part would make me cringe at the evil feeling. Luke was fantastic. I could picture Mark Hamil saying every line. Han was the same. And the other reviews that say Han isn't a gambling man, well read the Anderson trilogy. Han gambled over the Falcon a million times! The only let down was Leia kept saying to herself she couldn't act like a bounty hunter but she did in ROTJ. But then I deduced that it'd been a long time since ROTJ, and she probably was having trouble acting as a bounty hunter in ROTJ. Waru was magnificent. Overall this book meets up to everthing a Star Wars book should be, and only with one minor battle.
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