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Life Debt
by Chuck Wendig
"As he goes one and on, she nods gamely. All the while, Sloane feels like her boots are stuck in a mire, and the mud keeps pulling her down, down, down until her mouth is full of it and her lungs too, and all she can do is drownh in the much as the Empire she loves slips away"
And that is right where I am giving up on this novel at page 178. That paragraph pretty much sums up my feelings as I reach page 178 of 430 pages of "Star wars Aftermath: Life Debt".
I struggled through "Aftermath" scratching my head at the twitter-esque "writing" and new characters I didn't care about at all. Where were Leia, Luke, Han? Even when you got a glimpse of them, it sounded nothing like their familiar voices at all.
The premise that you have Han going AWOL from the Rebellion and rushing to save Chewbacca and liberate the planet Kashyyk from the Empire sounds exciting. To get that wrong, or make it dull seems next to impossible. Why then, is this the slowest most badly written Star wars novel i have ever laid eyes on?
After twenty years reading the EU novels that kept Star wars alive post-ROTJ for the fans, the EU that Disney have purchased and erased, these new ones sound and feel nothing like Star Wars, and Disney have made a serious error in judgement that these are the first of the new EU out of the gate. Lifelong fans are not going to buy something just because its "Star Wars", and new fans wont stick to this. That they gave this author THREE novels to churn out is astounding. So I'm skipping these two and going straight onto "Bloodline", which ten pages in grabs me far quicker than any of this dreck.
And that is right where I am giving up on this novel at page 178. That paragraph pretty much sums up my feelings as I reach page 178 of 430 pages of "Star wars Aftermath: Life Debt".
I struggled through "Aftermath" scratching my head at the twitter-esque "writing" and new characters I didn't care about at all. Where were Leia, Luke, Han? Even when you got a glimpse of them, it sounded nothing like their familiar voices at all.
The premise that you have Han going AWOL from the Rebellion and rushing to save Chewbacca and liberate the planet Kashyyk from the Empire sounds exciting. To get that wrong, or make it dull seems next to impossible. Why then, is this the slowest most badly written Star wars novel i have ever laid eyes on?
After twenty years reading the EU novels that kept Star wars alive post-ROTJ for the fans, the EU that Disney have purchased and erased, these new ones sound and feel nothing like Star Wars, and Disney have made a serious error in judgement that these are the first of the new EU out of the gate. Lifelong fans are not going to buy something just because its "Star Wars", and new fans wont stick to this. That they gave this author THREE novels to churn out is astounding. So I'm skipping these two and going straight onto "Bloodline", which ten pages in grabs me far quicker than any of this dreck.