Then because it is a timeless area one person has to tell another their entire history together because of unexplained amnesia (but has time to do because time is timeless here). Some type of timeless alternate universe where death requires specific circumstances otherwise people come back to life. The final nail for me was an incredibly dumb ending.

The inconstancy with Mando’s strength here vs earlier books(specifically their lack of it). A space station that stretches time yet the author only using that detail when convenient, otherwise characters outside and in seem to be moving at the same pace. Han battling a force user and somehow getting a shot into his knee. They backstab almost everyone they deal with yet still find people willing to deal. Their insane method of interrogation involved a card game with a known expert on the game. They were completely dependent on Vestra, the only compelling character from the Fate of the Jedi series. Their amazing mental capacities were mundane they were outsmarted at almost every turn despite us being told otherwise by the narration. Thus the two main villains of the book lost all credibility for me. I am not as a reader going to buy their skills if I don’t see it on page. If an author puts a genius/mastermind type character in the book they better be able to back it up. What wasn’t so nice was the stupidity of some of the plot lines.

So that was nice, and something I want to get into after the actual review.

This allowed the book to focus on a smaller cast, spend more time with the characters, and lent a bit of believability to the scale of the threat that has been lost in the Star Wars universe for a while. While eventually it became apparent the fate of the galaxy could be at stake, most of the book dealt with a smaller conflict in an out of the way area of the galaxy. What I appreciated the most in this book was the smaller scale of the conflict. Certainly an improvement over the horrible books I slogged through from Fate of the Jedi. This book would be completely impossible to read without knowing the full and total backstory of all the Star Wars books before it, and even managed to throw some curve balls at me, a man who has been reading these books for over fifteen years. I will not even begin to bother with a recap at this point, there is no point. Specifically, with the possibility of a reset coming after the Disney buyout what I hope to see in the next go around.įirst for a review of the book at hand. I will give my honest opinion for this newest Star Wars book, but I also want to chime in my thoughts on the Expanded Universe in general.

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