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A review by wyrmbergmalcolm
Shield of Lies by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
2.0
After book 1's appalling start to the trilogy, I wasn't going into this one with any great optimism. The first hurdles was that for some reason the three storylines that were intermingled in the first book have been segregated into three separate stories in this one.
So part one in the continuation of Lando's adventures with the mysterious craft, this was really bogged down with a whole lot of not a lot of anything much happening and ends with no real development. The mystery was vaguely interesting, but just dragged.
Part two was Luke's quest to find his mum, and was by far the worst section of the book. I recommend skipping this bit entirely which is easy to do given the layout of this book. The character of Luke is unrecognisable and the woman he's travelling with is the worst in every possible way. Dreadful stuff.
The final third focused on Leia and the actual Black Fleet crisis and was the better part of the book. In book one, Leia was terribly written, but here she's much more like her usual self. The story does get bogged down again with the minutiae of politics and military manoeuvring, but I found this section far more compelling than anything book 1 and the rest of this book had to offer.
This book really was an effort to get through, only one more to go...
So part one in the continuation of Lando's adventures with the mysterious craft, this was really bogged down with a whole lot of not a lot of anything much happening and ends with no real development. The mystery was vaguely interesting, but just dragged.
Part two was Luke's quest to find his mum, and was by far the worst section of the book. I recommend skipping this bit entirely which is easy to do given the layout of this book. The character of Luke is unrecognisable and the woman he's travelling with is the worst in every possible way. Dreadful stuff.
The final third focused on Leia and the actual Black Fleet crisis and was the better part of the book. In book one, Leia was terribly written, but here she's much more like her usual self. The story does get bogged down again with the minutiae of politics and military manoeuvring, but I found this section far more compelling than anything book 1 and the rest of this book had to offer.
This book really was an effort to get through, only one more to go...