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Title: Cloak of Deception (Star Wars) by James Luceno ISBN: 0-345-44297-0 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (66 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Never thought Politics could be so Interesting!
Comment: In short, this book was great. It provides an excellent story line and background for what happens in Episode I. When the Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter came out I thought that book would be the one to help answer the questions to Episode I, but as it turns out it was just a fun, albeit morbid, read. Cloak of Deception was the tool used to provide excellent background for Star Wars fans. Valorum is given much more of a role than in Episode I, along with each of the Senators we glimpsed for brief seconds in the movie. The taxation of trade routes finally makes sense as well as Jedi, Judicial, and Senate activities. Despite this book being the beginning of a saga, many old friends join us n this well thought out story, Darsha Assant and Anoon Bondara from Darth Maul. Vergere from Rogue Planet and the New Jedi Order. Even Tarkin and Sate Pestage make their brief appearances. This is a very worthy and exciting read. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This is an excellent book, and one of the better Star Wars books released in recent times. The book provides a great deal of the backstory behind episode I, and in my opinion, should have been released a couple of months after the movie.
The writing is solid, the dialouge worked in really well with the known characters. The characterisations were fairly good, but I found Captain Cohl to be a little bit two dimensional, he followed a pretty straight bad guy who eventually turns good path.
The book is mostly politics, I enjoy that sort of thing, and some of the Senate characters hardly seen in episode I have big parts here, Valorum in particular. Palpatine was also done very well, the more I read, the more he conformed to the character I had imagined him to be. I think most of all, I liked the details given about the pre-Empire galaxy in general.
James Luceno has done well here, better than those awful New Jedi Order 'books', it's painfully obvious in this novel that he has used the NJO map, but I guess no book can be perfect.
Overall, an excellent book, if you found episode I unsatisfying or you're simply a Star Wars fan, buy this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Palpatine's "tangled web" of deception is novel's focus....
Comment: "The Chancellor has little real power...he is mired down by baseless accusations of corruption." -- Senator Palpatine of Naboo to Queen Amidala, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
One of the intentions writer-director George Lucas had when writing the current prequels in the Star Wars saga was to illustrate how precarious democracy can be and how it can transform itself into a dictatorship. This little civics lesson, when added to the "main story" of how and why Anakin Skywalker becomes one of filmdom's greatest villains, was intended to answer such questions as "How did the Emperor take power?" and "Why were the Jedi nearly destroyed?" (Unfortunately, for many Star Wars fans, this civics lesson made Episode I seem like a galactic edition of C-SPAN, with all that talky maneuvering and manipulating in the Senate Hall.)
There are, however, some fans who do like the intrigue and political backstabbing that marks the end of the Galactic Republic, and James Luceno's Star Wars: Cloak of Deception gives willing readers a fascinating look behind the scenes of those "baseless accusations" aimed at Supreme Chancellor Valorum...the ones that are distracting the Republic's chief executive just as the Senate is about to be bogged down by the question of the taxation of trade routes in the galaxy.
Set shortly before the events chronicled in Michael Reaves' Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter and Star Wars: Episode I, Cloak of Deception follows Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi as they investigate the daring space pirate Captain Cohl and his gang, who have been striking at the heavily armed "freighters" of the Trade Federation...that greedy multi-system entity controlled mostly by the Neimoidians who have allied themselves with the mysterious Sith Lord. But is Cohl raiding the disguised warships just to steal from the rich and make a name for himself? Is he allied to those systems that are sick and tired of being extorted by the Trade Federation? Or is he merely one of many pawns being manipulated by Palpatine/Darth Sidious in his endless chain of schemes-within-schemes in order to create a major crisis that will push the well-meaning but ineffectual Finis Valorum out of office, thus paving the way for Palpatine's ascent to the Supreme Chancellorship?
This being one of several literary prequels to The Phantom Menace, savvy readers know the ultimate outcome of this story, but Luceno is one of the best Star Wars writers, and Cloak of Deception masterfully combines much of Lucas' back story and symbolism (Finis Valorum, the Supreme Chancellor's name, in Latin, roughly translates to brave or valiant end) with a suspenseful storyline replete with intrigue, action, and a more detailed look at Senator Palpatine and his cronies' plots and counterplots that will culminate in the Naboo Crisis.
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Title: The Approaching Storm (Star Wars) by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345442997 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shadow Hunter (Star Wars: Darth Maul) by Michael Reaves ISBN: 0345435419 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rogue Planet (Star Wars) by Greg Bear ISBN: 0345435400 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shatterpoint: A Clone Wars Novel (Star Wars) by Matthew Woodring Stover ISBN: 0345455738 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0345434110 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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