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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a fun story between Empire and Jedi that admittedly only baaarely manages to fit into existing continuity. The novel is an enjoyable adventure that serves as the definitive version of the Shadows of the Empire multimedia story (the game taking multiple liberties for the sake of gameplay and the comic having a chatty Boba Fett), and it benefits from the hindsight of releasing after the original trilogy, dovetailing nicely into Jedi in a way the old comics couldn't.
Some of the pacing is a bit jarring, and the Xizor creep factor is a bit more than I like in my Star Wars, but this is still a near-essential read for fans.
Some of the pacing is a bit jarring, and the Xizor creep factor is a bit more than I like in my Star Wars, but this is still a near-essential read for fans.
I will not pretend that this is the best Star Wars book ever written. I have issues with the way that Steve Perry writes (especially with the way he writes about women), and at times the book feels like it's packed with just a little bit too much filler. I was never bored reading it, but I wanted to get back to the action. That said, when it's good it's really good! And it's good a lot of the time. Xizor is predictably miserable to read about, but about halfway through the book I started to feel like Perry wasn't really taking him seriously as a character, which made all of his ego stroking a bit easier to stomach. He became easier to
Pretty good book, average by SW standards. I enjoyed Luke learning to be a Jedi quite a bit, and R2 and Threepio flying the Falcon was super funny. Damn this book was horny though, the Xizor seducing Leia scene made me very uncomfortable.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
This is a story that I've wanted to read since the media event originally happened in 1996, but never had the opportunity to read until recently. I'm not sure I would have appreciated it as much back then as I do now. I particularly enjoy seeing how authors manage to work a piece of fiction in between canon events and to tie it together so well. Steve Perry did the job well here and struck a decent balance between new material and classic callbacks between the movies.
