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michaelchurch 's review for:
Inferno
by Troy Denning
It has admittedly been a while since I last read anything in this series, so maybe I oversimplified where the story was at in my head. A lot of Star Wars books get too detailed in the political drama aspects for my tastes. While this one had some of that, there was much less of it, focusing instead on some of the general good versus evil themes that I enjoy more.
I was a little torn by the complexity at times. Sometimes it was astonishing how detailed the machinations of Jacen were, but other times he seemed to be missing extremely obvious problems with his plans and creating blind spots about what he wants to do and how he wants to see himself.
I was frustrated that there were 3 different times the story could have been ended, but it didn’t. Each time it was because some character was taking a supposed moral high ground that still ended up costing scores or hundreds of lives. These war stories do a good job of highlighting how war is hell, but then also accidentally villainize their heroes by showing us the big picture of how their choices hurt people across the galaxy.
The highest praise I can give this is that it flew by and it actually makes me eager to read the next one.
I was a little torn by the complexity at times. Sometimes it was astonishing how detailed the machinations of Jacen were, but other times he seemed to be missing extremely obvious problems with his plans and creating blind spots about what he wants to do and how he wants to see himself.
I was frustrated that there were 3 different times the story could have been ended, but it didn’t. Each time it was because some character was taking a supposed moral high ground that still ended up costing scores or hundreds of lives. These war stories do a good job of highlighting how war is hell, but then also accidentally villainize their heroes by showing us the big picture of how their choices hurt people across the galaxy.
The highest praise I can give this is that it flew by and it actually makes me eager to read the next one.