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I don't think I'll be reading any Star Wars books that don't involve Jedi. It was just... not that interesting.
Biggest problems with this book are:
- So many interludes. Every other chapter has an interlude that doesn't connect to the story at all. Some of them are ok, but most of them just feel like filler text to make the book longer.
- Too many characters. Having a lot of characters isn't a bad thing, but Wendig didn't develop many of that characters and introduced new characters way too late into the story.
- "Quick-Step". Wendig just uses weird phrases like "she did a quick-step to the door." It's just distracting. Just say "She quickly steps to the door." Quick-step is not a thing that anybody has ever said. I understand what it means, but it just feels like an unnecessary phrase.
- Every thing had to have a Star Wars adjective. It couldn't just be a deck of cards. It had to be a deck of Looteenia holovid cards. It felt like he was just adding things to the Star Wars universe for the sake of added to it, and not because it added to the story.
- One of the reasons I read this book is because I heard that there was an LGBT main character. There is... I feel like the reveal was such a let down. The characters sexuality doesn't play into the story, which isn't a bad thing. It's just a characteristic of one person, like hair or eye color. Like in real life, being gay doesn't define your personality. My main problem with the reveal is that the other character suddenly seems so different. It's revealed that a character is gay, and then the other character in the scene is suddenly a Vulcan, not understanding emotions. It was just very strange to read.
- At times it felt like Wendig wrote this book hoping it would turned into a movie. Like, it was first a screen play, and then he made it into a novel.
- So many bad things happen to the protagonists that are immediately solved in their favor, mostly out of just being lucky.
It just wasn't a very fun book to read. And so many god damn interludes!
Biggest problems with this book are:
- So many interludes. Every other chapter has an interlude that doesn't connect to the story at all. Some of them are ok, but most of them just feel like filler text to make the book longer.
- Too many characters. Having a lot of characters isn't a bad thing, but Wendig didn't develop many of that characters and introduced new characters way too late into the story.
- "Quick-Step". Wendig just uses weird phrases like "she did a quick-step to the door." It's just distracting. Just say "She quickly steps to the door." Quick-step is not a thing that anybody has ever said. I understand what it means, but it just feels like an unnecessary phrase.
- Every thing had to have a Star Wars adjective. It couldn't just be a deck of cards. It had to be a deck of Looteenia holovid cards. It felt like he was just adding things to the Star Wars universe for the sake of added to it, and not because it added to the story.
- One of the reasons I read this book is because I heard that there was an LGBT main character. There is... I feel like the reveal was such a let down. The characters sexuality doesn't play into the story, which isn't a bad thing. It's just a characteristic of one person, like hair or eye color. Like in real life, being gay doesn't define your personality. My main problem with the reveal is that the other character suddenly seems so different. It's revealed that a character is gay, and then the other character in the scene is suddenly a Vulcan, not understanding emotions. It was just very strange to read.
- At times it felt like Wendig wrote this book hoping it would turned into a movie. Like, it was first a screen play, and then he made it into a novel.
- So many bad things happen to the protagonists that are immediately solved in their favor, mostly out of just being lucky.
It just wasn't a very fun book to read. And so many god damn interludes!