A review by aguazales
Shadow Games by Michael Reaves, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

2.0

This book just didn't do it for me. I was never caught up in the story. It never drew me in and held me in suspense like most of the other Star Wars books I've read. Another problem I had with it is the style in which it was written. Far too verbose for me. Some sentences seemed downright laughable. I quote: "The approaching ship was stealth black, so light-sucking fuliginous that it registered on Dash's wonky perception as a hole in space." And there are better ways to describe "very dark" than "stygian", in my opinion. This seems to be common to all of Mr. Reaves' material; in the first two pages of the included preview to his book "Jedi Twilight", I had to look up "ecumenopolis", "animalcule", and "interregnum." I pity the people who read that without instant electronic dictionary lookup.

Summary: The slow storyline, writing style, and all-around non-Star-Wars feel prevented me from enjoying this book. Oh, and did I mention that exactly 15% of this book is ads trying to get you to buy other books? Not what I paid for.