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laurencoffey 's review for:
Shatterpoint
by Matthew Woodring Stover
I love books and reading and literature and all that. The classics are great, and I love me some modern classics even more. I'll read non-fiction and memoirs and love every bit. Now this, this is literature too. Let's forget it's a Star Wars book for a quick second and analyze it like anyone would a work of "real" literature. The novel addresses genocide, fighting over resources, warring factions and tribes, military presence, colonization, the power and brutality held in rural lands, conflict with self and conflict with nature. All that while giving you an entertaining story of fighting for salvation of a friend, doing the right thing even when it's a hard thing, and (bringing it back to that this is a Star Wars book) what it means to be a Jedi and live by their unique code. Matthew Stover has a beautiful way with words and his writing taps into the feelings, conflicts, and emotional toll of each character. This was great. This was "Heart of Darkness" with lightsabers. This is literature.