A review by eveejoystar
Deceived by Paul S. Kemp

3.0

When I first started this book I thought about giving it two stars, but something changed.

Let me start off with the things that I disliked. Some might seem like I'm nitpicking, but hey! it's my review. ;)

I felt like the first couple chapters were terrible. They didn't get me interested in the story and the battle scenes were awful. I started this book in July, got to page 28 and then just stopped until I picked it back up again as a part of my New Year's Resolution. That was pretty much the only thing pushing me. It took me a whole week to get to the part where I actually started to enjoy it. That was pretty much my main gripe about this book. Also, what kind of nickname is Z-man? That bothered me so much. While I was reading I was thinking, "Maybe I should pretend I read the rest and just give it two stars". Obviously I ran across some things that made me change my mind and add a star.

My mind first changed when

Spoiler

in Chapter 5 Zeerid sees his daughter in the park. Some emotions started rolling over me, and my throat started to get tight. This also happened when later in the book they ran into T7 and it gives Aryn Zallow's lightsaber. I'm not someone who normally gets emotional, so that's definently going to bring my rating up.

Also, later on in the book I started to love some of the characters. You couldn't just say, "Oh, he's just another Sith Lord, or Oh, she's just another Jedi". They differentiated from the pack, and that really made their stories interesting.

But the whole way through, I was definently rooting for Zeerid. I wanted to see him make his daughter proud.