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Title: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 4) by James Luceno ISBN: 0-345-42860-9 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (83 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: ZZZZZZZ - a real sleeper
Comment: Forget Nodoze man... just read this!! This is James Luceno's first star wars book, and I have to give him a little slack just because he is new. However... He failed to capture the tone, and the general overall feel of the series that the other authors had created. Although discriptive with his words, he doesn't use them to capture a scene... he just uses them to be discriptive. Text books do the same thing. Although he did try to do some funky stuffs wuth his approach... like writing from Threepio's view at Chewie's funeral... he just doesn't pull it off. He doesn't advance the plot, or add to the charector at all; (this entire book is about Han.) And I don't know Han any better now than I did before. 350+ pages of total waste.
An A for effort. A failing grade overall.
Rating: 3
Summary: Anti-climatic .. drops plot for character
Comment: I've been reading each NJO book in succession and have found that this book is the most boring. Reading a Star Wars book I root for the bad guy .. since the good guys always win anyways. And this book dissappoints me. The Vong achieve almost nothing - it seems nothing happens that affects the war. You could almost skip this book in that sense.
Instead you get to read how Han accidentally, through lots of luck and coincedence, saves the day. It's just not gripping enough. I wished Elan fared better, she was a very interesting character.
Where did Deign Lian go ?
I still give it 3 stars because despite the letdown feeling of the ending, we get to meet new interesting characters such as Droma and Elan.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Disappointment
Comment: I had hoped for more from the followup to the fantastic Dark Tide series. The book is not poorly written, and the story is generally satisfying, but the book focuses solely on Han Solo, completely ignoring the rest of the galaxy. While Solo's adventures are reasonably exciting, they failed to grip my attention, and I had some trouble getting through this book, for lack of interest.
Okay, to the story. Han Solo, who had been almost entirely left out of the Dark Tide series (which focused on the Jedi), is still mourning the loss of Chewbacca at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong at Sernpidal. Solo is highly depressed and takes his anger out on Leia and storms away on his own. While almost every one of the 'good guys' is left out, dont worry, the Yuuzhan Vong are present and give Han a hell of a hard time. Han allies himself with an old friend, and after a Yuuzhan Vong attack, a new one. By the end of the book, Han uncovers a Yuuzhan Vong plot to completely eliminate the Jedi, and does his usual hero thing to try and avert it.
Over all, the book is not terrible. Han Solo is true to his original character, an independent rogue, not the paternal Han Solo shown since the Thrawn Trilogy. For any Han Solo fan, this book would probably rank up with AC Crispen's trilogy, but as a New Jedi Order book, Hero's Trial is rather one-dimensonal, and any reader who is not a Han Solo fantatic will find themselves wishing that there was more mention of the Solo children, Luke Skywalker, Corran Horn, etc. This book is not vitally important to the series; nothing of any great import occurs, except perhaps the first real indication of the Yuuzhan Vong's hatred of the Jedi, which will play an important role later on in the New Jedi Order series.
A good effort for Luceno (his first Star Wars novel) but this book doesnt stand out and is probably my least favorite New Jedi Order book to date, perhaps even my least favorite Star Wars book to date (L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian saga may give Luceno a run for his money, though).
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Title: Dark Tide I: Onslaught (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 2) by Michael A. Stackpole ISBN: 0345428544 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Balance Point (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 6) by Kathy Tyers ISBN: 0345428587 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Vector Prime (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 1) by R.A. Salvatore ISBN: 0345428455 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 7) by Greg Keyes ISBN: 0345428641 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 8) by Greg Keyes ISBN: 0345446100 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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