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andredistel 's review for:
Tarkin
by James Luceno
While still reading:
So far, this has been my least favourite of all the SW novels I've consumed. And I think it mostly comes down to there being no stakes. Tarkin won't die. Vader won't die. Sheev won't die. And the other characters we don't really care about, because they never get properly introduced.
I feel like if this book was written from the rebels' POV, it would be much more exciting. We'd build a relationship to them.
But instead, thanks to the first few chapters, we relate to Tarkin and his struggle to find his ship. But after the second or so escape, it just gets boring. We want him to catch the shipnappers, but we also know that nothing big will happen if he doesn't, because otherwise we would have heard about it in other media, probably.
Mulling all of this over, the best experience to be gained from this book would probably be during a chronological watch-through of the entire series, right after episode 3.
So far, this has been my least favourite of all the SW novels I've consumed. And I think it mostly comes down to there being no stakes. Tarkin won't die. Vader won't die. Sheev won't die. And the other characters we don't really care about, because they never get properly introduced.
I feel like if this book was written from the rebels' POV, it would be much more exciting. We'd build a relationship to them.
But instead, thanks to the first few chapters, we relate to Tarkin and his struggle to find his ship. But after the second or so escape, it just gets boring. We want him to catch the shipnappers, but we also know that nothing big will happen if he doesn't, because otherwise we would have heard about it in other media, probably.
Mulling all of this over, the best experience to be gained from this book would probably be during a chronological watch-through of the entire series, right after episode 3.