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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
“Courage wasn’t a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.”
Okay, this was the best SW book I've read in awhile. Oceans 11 but Star Wars. Zahn is my favorite SW author after Luceno. He nails the OT cast in a way that the other authors struggle with. Han, Chewie and Lando were on point. And this book explains why Lando was mad at Han before Episode 5. This is also the earliest in the timeline we meet Winter, and it was awesome to see her before she's babysitting the Solo kids for years.
Han and a group of people he puts together are hired to break into a vault owned by Black Sun and steal some credits and blackmail files. Incredibly low stakes story, there's no saving the galaxy, and no space battles at all, but I was entertained the entire time.
Okay, this was the best SW book I've read in awhile. Oceans 11 but Star Wars. Zahn is my favorite SW author after Luceno. He nails the OT cast in a way that the other authors struggle with. Han, Chewie and Lando were on point. And this book explains why Lando was mad at Han before Episode 5. This is also the earliest in the timeline we meet Winter, and it was awesome to see her before she's babysitting the Solo kids for years.
Han and a group of people he puts together are hired to break into a vault owned by Black Sun and steal some credits and blackmail files. Incredibly low stakes story, there's no saving the galaxy, and no space battles at all, but I was entertained the entire time.
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book by Zahn is essentially Ocean's 11 Star Wars Edition (the cover even pays direct homage to the film's poster). Han, Chewy, Lando, Winter, and other criminals plan a crime caper with the promise of a huge score. Things go wrong at several points and the there's a clever twist at the end. Although this is a solid book it's the weakest I've read by Zahn. I could take it or leave it honestly.
3.5/5
3.5/5
This book has the good old Star Wars characters that we know and love and Timothy Zahn really makes their personalities shine but that is entirely the extent of where my two star rating comes from.
This is pretty much a novelisation of the Oceans 11 movie in a Star Wars setting that just does not succeed at all. It takes everything away from what usually makes a Star Wars book fun. If you are a fan of Timothy Zahn's fantastic, multi-layered scifi style mysteries, you will see nothing of that here and you will also not find the greatness of his past Star Wars stories. This book stinks of an attempt to write a book in the hope to be picked up as a movie, even if it wont ever happen. Very disappointing from a big Zahn fan like me.
This is pretty much a novelisation of the Oceans 11 movie in a Star Wars setting that just does not succeed at all. It takes everything away from what usually makes a Star Wars book fun. If you are a fan of Timothy Zahn's fantastic, multi-layered scifi style mysteries, you will see nothing of that here and you will also not find the greatness of his past Star Wars stories. This book stinks of an attempt to write a book in the hope to be picked up as a movie, even if it wont ever happen. Very disappointing from a big Zahn fan like me.
This wasn't a bad way to spend six or so hours, but it wasn't as good as I was expecting from my memories of having read previous Zahn books. The heist was a little overly complicated, the characters were more like pieces in the puzzle of his plot than interesting people in their own right, and his characterization of Lando, Han and Chewbacca was weak. They could have been any old smuggler, charmer and ten foot walking carpet. The little twist at the end was pretty fun, though, I'll admit. Definitely didn't see it coming.
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Timothy Zhan for the win! His books in the Star Wars Legends (Expanded Universe) are by far the the best! And this one delivers. Going into this book, didn’t realize it was a heist story, but it was great. A little slower compared to some of the other Star Wars Legends books I read like (X-Wing, Thrawn and Old Republic) but still pretty good!
The best part was honestly all the other characters, like Bink and Tavia ,they were super smart and hands down the smartest on the crew, I mean they literally are the ones who broken into the vault Rachele was really cool, I like how she was loyal and close with Han
It was very cool seeing Winter in there, she is pretty prominent through out the other Legends books,but is was nice seeing her in a different role.
Another cool part about this story, was the time frame, right between Ep. IV and Ep V,this really comes into play because Lando does not own Cloud City yet and Winter doesn’t know Leia is alive yet.
The back forth between all the interested partiestrying to get into the vault was funny, the imperial angle, Hans scoundrels and Villachor trying to figure out what is going on, haha
The coolest part by far was whenHan and Rachele are telling the group about Eanjer, and how he had really been dead the whole time! And then in end, Eanjer turn out to be Boba Fett! Just wild ending. It does suck they didn’t get the whole loot though.
Also, very happy with that with all of the people who gotkidnapped, Bink, Tavia, Lando, and even Han at one point, no got tortured or killed
The story feels like an extended cut scenes from the end of Ep. Iv, the book is funny, smooth and full of Star Wars charm. The only thing I would have like to see is a romance subplot even if it was subplot to the subplot, a good romance is always fun to read. But overall great story!
The best part was honestly all the other characters, like Bink and Tavia ,
It was very cool seeing Winter in there, she is pretty prominent through out the other Legends books,
Another cool part about this story, was the time frame, right between Ep. IV and Ep V,
The back forth between all the interested parties
The coolest part by far was when
Also, very happy with that with all of the people who got
The story feels like an extended cut scenes from the end of Ep. Iv, the book is funny, smooth and full of Star Wars charm. The only thing I would have like to see is a romance subplot even if it was subplot to the subplot, a good romance is always fun to read. But overall great story!
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A