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machutown12 's review for:
The Approaching Storm
by Alan Dean Foster
This was better than I was expecting!
This book is marketed as a prelude to Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, but it really doesn't connect to the story hardly at all. The main through-line is simply the Separatist secession, and the Corporate Alliance is featured as opposed to the Trade Federation like normal, so that's a nice change.
While the characterizations of Luminara and Barris certainly don't carry over into modern canon (looking at you, Season 5 of CW), but it's still fun to see a story featuring them. I'm not sure that any one character had any significant amount of noticeable development, but they discuss repeatedly Anakin's impulsivity, which tracks with the pre-Clone Wars Anakin storyline.
The story itself is paced pretty slow, so I definitely get how some people would find it boring, but I found myself really enjoying the journey through the desert, along with the side characters they pick up along the way.
Definitely, a skippable book, but not bad by any means, especially if you are a fan of the Clone Wars era or Luminara and Barris. I would give it somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4.
This book is marketed as a prelude to Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, but it really doesn't connect to the story hardly at all. The main through-line is simply the Separatist secession, and the Corporate Alliance is featured as opposed to the Trade Federation like normal, so that's a nice change.
While the characterizations of Luminara and Barris certainly don't carry over into modern canon (looking at you, Season 5 of CW), but it's still fun to see a story featuring them. I'm not sure that any one character had any significant amount of noticeable development, but they discuss repeatedly Anakin's impulsivity, which tracks with the pre-Clone Wars Anakin storyline.
The story itself is paced pretty slow, so I definitely get how some people would find it boring, but I found myself really enjoying the journey through the desert, along with the side characters they pick up along the way.
Definitely, a skippable book, but not bad by any means, especially if you are a fan of the Clone Wars era or Luminara and Barris. I would give it somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4.