A review by seeing_ghosts
Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn

3.0

Not as good as the first book in the series by a mile. Struggled a lot with the pacing and also starting with three points of view was a too convoluted and hard to follow. It picked up for me once we narrowed down to two points of view but ultimately feels like filler to get us to book three. Wasn’t as intrigued by the relationship between Vader and Thrawn as I feel I should have been - I think it lacked some complexity ? Especially on behalf of Vader it would have been so easy to add a bit more zest and conflict to his feelings about anakin and perhaps that would have made the back and forth of stubbornness between the two characters a little more palatable? I’m not sure.

Anyway the book was still good because it’s Star Wars and loving Star Wars will always carry my enjoyment of these books whether they’re lacking or otherwise - I am totally biased. Looking forward to reuniting with the characters I sorely missed in this book while reading the next one!