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Star Wars, Episode III: De Wraak van de Sith: Het Boek van de Film
Gert van Santen, Matthew Woodring Stover
4.34 AVERAGE
920 reviews for:
Star Wars, Episode III: De Wraak van de Sith: Het Boek van de Film
Gert van Santen, Matthew Woodring Stover
4.34 AVERAGE
I listened to this via audiobook! Just a quick note on performance before the actual book review: it was absolutely fabulous. I’ve found I really enjoy the Star Wars audiobooks I’ve listened to! The difference between characters was clear - and there is one notable scene I think is better as an audiobook rather than the traditional book! More on that below.
Spoilers, obviously, but we all know the basics of the plot.
And that’s what this book capitalizes on - knowing the basic plot and filling in so many little details, fleshing out the known with unknown.
For me, the distinction was clear when Palpatine’s recording was presented to the Empire: “the following is a recording” hit so much better listening to the audiobook! This little bit, for some reason, made me love the book. I ended up binging the last four hours of it in the past two days because it just hit the gas in the final part. Order 66 and all that.
I also really enjoyed the insight into Anakin’s mind - something the novelization fleshes out so well. You hear so many of his thoughts and learn his thinking process that his final transformation into Vader is heartbreaking. The same can be said for hearing Obi-Wan’s thoughts. What a ride.
Overall, a great book to listen to. I was familiar with the story of Revenge of the Sith, but now I am intimate with it - and Anakin’s dragon.
Spoilers, obviously, but we all know the basics of the plot.
And that’s what this book capitalizes on - knowing the basic plot and filling in so many little details, fleshing out the known with unknown.
For me, the distinction was clear when Palpatine’s recording was presented to the Empire: “the following is a recording” hit so much better listening to the audiobook! This little bit, for some reason, made me love the book. I ended up binging the last four hours of it in the past two days because it just hit the gas in the final part. Order 66 and all that.
I also really enjoyed the insight into Anakin’s mind - something the novelization fleshes out so well. You hear so many of his thoughts and learn his thinking process that his final transformation into Vader is heartbreaking. The same can be said for hearing Obi-Wan’s thoughts. What a ride.
Overall, a great book to listen to. I was familiar with the story of Revenge of the Sith, but now I am intimate with it - and Anakin’s dragon.
I read this book right when the movie came out. The movie was ok (it was better than the first two prequels) but the book was, in my opinion, what MADE the movie ok. Stover does an excellent job of expanding on the plot of the movie to include motivations and emotions and everything else the movie lacks. He turns what is, frankly, a fairly shallow fantasy series into a deep, emotional, character-driven story. After reading this book, the movie is a LOT more palatable. I don't know how Stover did it, but man he did it. This is a REALLY good book.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Much better than the movie - it goes much deeper into the mind of Anakin Skywalker as he turns to the Dark Side. The movie made it too easy, too illogical, but the book does a fantastic job of it. Well-written, it contains some scenes not in the movie, which helps.
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. But in the heart of its strength lies its weakness - one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is the candle. Love can ignite the stars"
Austen, Shakespeare, Dickens, eat your heart out!
This was so beautifully written and compliments the tragedy of Anakin/Vader in SW media so perfectly. Shit hurted as fuck tho.
Austen, Shakespeare, Dickens, eat your heart out!
This was so beautifully written and compliments the tragedy of Anakin/Vader in SW media so perfectly. Shit hurted as fuck tho.
Even if you weren't a huge prequels fan I highly recommend the novelizations. So so so good!
i have no idea what came over me that i finished this in one day. i thought it would take me two.
currently watching obi-wan as it premiers on disney+, and i just needed more obi-wan and anakin content. their relationship is so tragic, they loved each other so much. i want more of them. so picked this up. (just to clarify, i DO NOT ship them romantically, their friendship is just so good).
it was just as sad as i thought it would be.
i will get my one negative of this book out of the way: i wanted more of the duel on mustafar. the ending in general i felt was pretty rushed, but i was disappointed that we didn’t get too much of their inner conflict/emotions during this pivotal moment in their history. other moments of the movie got more context, but mustafar not as much. i just wanted more EMOTION from the mustafar dual but it went by pretty quickly.
but boy oh boy were there some depressing scenes in this book. first of all, obi-wan’s quote of always believing that anakin would be with him when he dies. like why would you write that.
just. through the book you can tell that they love each other, but there’s just too much in their way for them to just…talk about their emotions!! more so on anakin’s part than obi-wan’s, but both of them still have trouble with expressing themselves. just bros being dudes.
i really appreciated the depiction of anakin’s mental state through this. i felt so bad for him. the combination of his love for padme, his love of obi-wan, the fear of padme dying, the stubbornness of the jedi council, PALPATINE’S MANIPULATION all led to his fall to the dark side. just. if the jedi council would have just LISTENED TO obi-wan, maybe this whole situation could have been avoided. the jedi council was too uncompromising, palpatine was a little too good at what he does, and anakin was just too vulnerable. im not trying to take away from the fact that at the end of the day, it was anakin who chose to fall to the dark side. but, without palpatine, this wouldnt have happen. i feel so bad for anakin. i love him.
in another universe he doesn’t fall and he and padme raise leia and luke with the help of uncle obi wan and ahsoka.
currently watching obi-wan as it premiers on disney+, and i just needed more obi-wan and anakin content. their relationship is so tragic, they loved each other so much. i want more of them. so picked this up. (just to clarify, i DO NOT ship them romantically, their friendship is just so good).
it was just as sad as i thought it would be.
i will get my one negative of this book out of the way: i wanted more of the duel on mustafar. the ending in general i felt was pretty rushed, but i was disappointed that we didn’t get too much of their inner conflict/emotions during this pivotal moment in their history. other moments of the movie got more context, but mustafar not as much. i just wanted more EMOTION from the mustafar dual but it went by pretty quickly.
but boy oh boy were there some depressing scenes in this book. first of all, obi-wan’s quote of always believing that anakin would be with him when he dies. like why would you write that.
just. through the book you can tell that they love each other, but there’s just too much in their way for them to just…talk about their emotions!! more so on anakin’s part than obi-wan’s, but both of them still have trouble with expressing themselves. just bros being dudes.
i really appreciated the depiction of anakin’s mental state through this. i felt so bad for him. the combination of his love for padme, his love of obi-wan, the fear of padme dying, the stubbornness of the jedi council, PALPATINE’S MANIPULATION all led to his fall to the dark side. just. if the jedi council would have just LISTENED TO obi-wan, maybe this whole situation could have been avoided. the jedi council was too uncompromising, palpatine was a little too good at what he does, and anakin was just too vulnerable. im not trying to take away from the fact that at the end of the day, it was anakin who chose to fall to the dark side. but, without palpatine, this wouldnt have happen. i feel so bad for anakin. i love him.
in another universe he doesn’t fall and he and padme raise leia and luke with the help of uncle obi wan and ahsoka.
This book is the longest of the prequel trilogy and although it is written the best it is also the book the deviates most from the movie. I don't think that this inconsistency is the fault of the author, [a:Matthew Woodring Stover|1567394|Matthew Woodring Stover|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1301265530p2/1567394.jpg], but rather the fault of [a:George Lucas|3231|George Lucas|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1458677946p2/3231.jpg]'s changing vision for the prequels. According to other accounts, Lucas rewrote the script numerous times, even as production began. It is painfully obvious that Stover was working from an early version of the script. As such it deviates from the movie several times in big ways. None-the-less, the writing is masterful. There are times where there is maybe too much narration, but overall those narrative segments give us a deep look into the personality, character, and relationships of the main Jedi. We see the hope of the Republic resting upon the partnership, brotherhood, and success of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Or Mace Windu's love of the Republic [in fact, this was a very narrow bit of writing, but it was so powerful and impactful that I was surprised how short it was in this book and that it was lacking in Stover's other Clone Wars novel, Shatterpoint]. Overall, I don't hate the prequel trilogy as much as many others, but there was a lot about it that was lacking and that could have improved. In general, they got better each step of the way, as did the accompanying novels.