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Title: Star Wars the Rebel Dawn: The Han Solo Trilogy (Star Wars: Han Solo Trilogy (Paperback)) by A.C. Crispin ISBN: 0-553-57417-5 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (93 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sets up the trilogy well.
Comment: It has a great plot, and sets up the movie trilogy well. It wouldn't make a great movie, but it has a feeling of suspense. Unlike the other Star Wars novels, there is no specific "enemy", besides any authority in the area, pirates, and bounty hunters. Therefore you do not know what is going to happen and what the other side is going to do. This makes it more suspenseful, and it describes the pre-Alliance days of Han, Lando, Chewie and even Boba Fett. It also does a good job of eliminating all of the new characters, except Xaverri, Salla and Durga (who appear in later novels), that were created for the purpose of the trilogy. Bria was shot. Mako was perilized. Jiliac was killed by Durga. This makes it possible to not interfer with the future storyline. I did not like the gap in the middle, however. I think it was there because the other Han Solo Trilogy takes places then, but I have not read them and that is why I don't know.
Rating: 5
Summary: The End and the Beginning
Comment: 'Rebel Dawn' is another truly exceptional SW novel that carries the life of Han Solo right up the meeting at Chalumn's Cantina with a certain old man and farmboy. To say that 'Rebel Dawn' is a sort of a hsityor book is in many ways true, as it offers glimpses to the early days of the rebellion. Not that that's bad, at least not for me. I am a huge history buff, after all.
Everything is wrapped up here, essentially. How Han gets Jabba on his case, Han's falling out with Lando, Bria's fate... Very, very nice and well-crafted so that everything fits together as one. Admittedly it's a rather sad book once you get to the end, but it accuarely paints Han's life and sets up his new life beautifully. Like 'Hutt Gambit', this book creates an incredible view into the 'other side' of Star Wars, far from the gallant dogfights above the Death Star and heroism of Leia and Dodonna. Here the Rebels are still struggling, and instead of a romantic space duel we get a ground invasion on the mudhole known as Ylesia. And you also het the tensions between the two Hutt clans at their height. Nothing like wars between crime syndicates, after all. Durga's relationship with Black sun also helped set up 'Darksaber', adding a little bit of background and credibility to Anderson's hopelessly absurd novel. Han's relationship with Bria was also quite interesting to watch, and its ending is certainly riveting. The final scene with Bria, in my opinion, goes down as one of the best all-time Star Wars scenes and fully captures the devotion of the early Rebel troops as they fought against all odds for a seemingly impossible goal. I must admit that I found the interlude where Biran Daley's novels go chronologically somewhat awkward, partially because I've never read Daley's novels and simply pieces bits and pieces of information about them together from various sources. Still, this is just a minor flaw in on overwhelmingly superb book.
If for whatever reason you don't want to read everyting above, I'll simplify it here. 'Rebel Dawn' is an incredible piece of Star Wars history that adds background and depth to both Han Solo's life and the SW galaxy itself. Highly, highly reccomended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid if unspectacular finish to a well-written trilogy!
Comment: Picking up directly after the Hutt Gambit, Rebel Dawn suffers in comparison to its well-written predecessors. The book is much more predictable and the return of characters followed throughout the trilogy is a give. Bria, Han's love from the first book is reunited with the scruffy smuggler, only to betray him for the Rebel Alliance. Han loses all his friends except Chewie, but in the meantime is able to make the fastest Kessel Run ever, loses spice from Jabba and generally gets set up for plot points that take place in the classic trilogy. Although it is an above average Star Wars book, Rebel Dawn is a bit of a letdown after the previous 2 books, but is still an adequate conclusion to the Han Solo trilogy.
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Title: Star Wars: The Han Solo Adventures/3 Books in One by Brian Daley ISBN: 0345379802 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Splinter of the Mind's Eye: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345320239 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 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: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry ISBN: 0553574132 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Adventures of Lando Calrissian: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu/Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon/Lando Calrissian and the by L. Neil Smith ISBN: 0345391101 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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