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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
Possibly Stackpole's best Star Wars novel. He carries first person narratives like no other author. This story fits around and shortly after the Jedi Academy trilogy by Kevin Anderson. I would recommend that Anderson's series be read first, then the X-wing series for Corran Horn's back story. However, even without those, Stackpole's work in this novel does stand on its own.
4.5 stars! I found this book wholly enjoyable. I seriously think that this book would make a fantastic one off film for the franchise. I loved Corran as a character very much! His journey was an interesting one to be on!
I have a read a heck of a lot of the Expanded Universe for Star Wars. I would still be reading the EU if the New Jedi Order hadn't gone into insanity and "dark and edgy" gone wrong. Whenever I do think of the glory days of the EU this probably the one that leaps to my mind first. It's a great book even if you were to take it out of Star Wars context.
Corran Horn is a character from the X-Wing novels. He also happens to have a Jedi background. Now instead of going the cheesy way and turning this into almost a direct copy of Luke's story we get a story of self discovery tied in with a detective story in the fact that Corran's wife goes missing very soon into the book and we don't find her until the very very end. Everything he does, even his seemingly ill spent time at the Jedi Academy, is an effort to find his wife.
It is so well done for an EU novel. The characters are engaging - the talks with the OT characters are real and easy to envision. I especially like the strange friendship with Mara Jade and the level footing he and Luke have by the end.
If you're looking for a good adventure story in the Star Wars universe from a different point of view - of a Jedi story with a twist. Check this one out. It especially helps that this is told in the first person.
Corran Horn is a CorSec agent and a pilot - but he also has some Jedi skills. When he eventually decides to combine all 3 he is unstoppable.
Corran Horn is a character from the X-Wing novels. He also happens to have a Jedi background. Now instead of going the cheesy way and turning this into almost a direct copy of Luke's story we get a story of self discovery tied in with a detective story in the fact that Corran's wife goes missing very soon into the book and we don't find her until the very very end. Everything he does, even his seemingly ill spent time at the Jedi Academy, is an effort to find his wife.
It is so well done for an EU novel. The characters are engaging - the talks with the OT characters are real and easy to envision. I especially like the strange friendship with Mara Jade and the level footing he and Luke have by the end.
If you're looking for a good adventure story in the Star Wars universe from a different point of view - of a Jedi story with a twist. Check this one out. It especially helps that this is told in the first person.
Corran Horn is a CorSec agent and a pilot - but he also has some Jedi skills. When he eventually decides to combine all 3 he is unstoppable.
Pretty good book from what I remember. Told in Coran Horn's perspective in first person.
It's amazing what they used to jam into Star Wars books; this is like 3 different arcs in one. It's fine content but there's a lot of weird heterosexuality (not like that the straightness itself is weird, just how it's phrased?) The whole thing at the beginning with the baby plot was uncomfortable, and I never want to read the word "loins" in another Star Wars book if I can help it, because it appeared WAY too many times here. Also it spans a lot of other books, which is cool if you know what happened there but could be confusing. It wasn't a terrible book, there were just a number of moments that made me roll my eyes.