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Jim books 4 friends. Joe books friends. Mark 55 books 0 friends. Angel books 97 friends. Post a comment ». Jan 09, PM. If anyone votes for the Darth Bane books high they should have their votes eliminated.
Those two books were the worst books I have ever read in the Star Wars theme. The author has no concept of what Star Wars was or is. Jul 12, AM. Joseph wrote: "If anyone votes for the Darth Bane books high they should have their votes eliminated.
The author has no concept of was or is. I can't possibly see how you can think the author doesn't know about Star Wars. The references to an even older time period should be enough. Sep 12, AM. Yeah I think that Joseph just has plain bad taste. I'm still catching up on many of the Star Wars books, but that's a pretty bad remark about the Darth Bane series.
Personally, I found the 1st book in particular to be one of the best Star Wars stories I've ever read.
Zahn is definitely king, but to read about the grand history of the Sith kept me anxious to get the 2nd and 3rd books! So screw you Joe. Sep 12, PM. Hey Deadnaut-screw you to. It is a joke if you think that a person of Bane's age can just pick up the Sith training and not only the top student, but all the other Sith Masters and Lords are not as strong of him and also scared of him.
Of of this because he draws from childhood memories. Then there is the whole Think Bomb he is able to do figure out reading old texts from the past Siths that kills all the Siths. The worst is the ending where he finds a 10 year girl to make her his apprentice. She killed 2 jedi's because they killed her cousins. If this author had any idea about Star Wars he would have known Jedi's don't just kill people. But then this little girl decides yes I want to join the Sith side and learn the evil ways.
I find this hard to believe. So, Darth Bane takes the title and claims this 10 year old girl to be his apprentice. Then he leaves her on the planet and says if you want off the planet to be my apprentice you have to get off the planet yourself.
So he somehow gets picked up by this rescue team of 2 adults and 2 boys because the Jedi folks would allow 2 boys to accompany them on a rescue mission and she kills them with the force that she just learned.
She meets up with Darth Right, most 10 year olds are lost and could never do this and he finds what he is looking for, but gets this creatures stuck on him almost like in the movie Lost in Space. But don't worry they are said to give him strength and won't kill him. Then it takes you 10 years later, the little girl is grown up, he says she is hot he made another reference on a Sith in the first book of how hot this other girl was , and somehow Darth has this creatures to multiply all over his body even though they were supposed to grow slowly , AND that Darth has this wealth of contactss and spies through out the galaxy even though he was this poor miner who knew no one.
Then there is this crap about casting spells and such. And he should know that the Chiss don't venture outside their galaxy very much and I am sure they didn't 1, years before Luke, Leia, etc.
He has no concept about the overall story board. Basically there is no story or plot. It never tells you why Darth was such a bad ass like he said he was. Sure he kills some Jedi's in the book, but he doesn't do much against them as a whole or the Republic. The book ends with Dartha and the girl escaping, not being found out and ready to do more in the future. Oh wait the last part was in book 2. Joseph, you either skimmed over the book or were just disinterested when you read it. The reason Bane could pick Sith training so easily was because he was the Sith'ari, the chosen one of the Sith similiar to the chosen one prophecy of the Jedi.
You also criticize the author for not knowing anything about Star Wars. You must have missed the part where the Jedi killed the 10 year old girl's friend, a telepathic species native to the planet, not her cousins. The rescue team that found her was comprised of a republic soldiers, and their two sons.
There were no Jedi on the shuttle. You talk about spells and such are not part of the Star Wars universe, but what do you think the Force is? Is a Jedi Mind Trick not a type of spell, and could it not be twisted by a Sith to be used for evil? Path of Destruction is the first in a three book trilogy, and to understand the whole concept you have to read all three.
This trilogy covers the Dark Side of the Force and how the Sith came to be as we know them in the movies. I just didn't like it, what is the big deal? Nov 24, PM. I like the books, and I agree with Infamous, but Joseph does have a point in that Darth Bane unrealistically has a lot of contacts that he has accumulated.
Even with him having ten years to get them Jul 13, PM. I like the books too, but each person is entitled to his or her own opinion.
Even though I liked the series, there were parts in the Bane books that made me go "Huh? Aug 22, AM. I never cared for the Zahn trilogy. Very dry and uninteresting except for Thrawn, who I think most people think of when they think of these books - that character solely elevates the material - the rest doesn't read like Star Wars.
Mara Jade is particularly one of the worst characters I've ever read in a book - a total one-upper The River Song of Star Wars. I think Brian Daley and Kevin J. Anderson best captured the feel of the original Star Wars. Matthew Stover did the most to 'push' the material. All his contributions are amazing, even Traitor, which is set in an era I don't much care about.
Shatterpoint is fabulous and his novelization of RoTS surpasses the original material. Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor is his sole stumble - I didn't find that very interesting. Where's the Medstar Dulogoy? I loved those as well. Feb 23, PM. I think it is funny how you bash what the author is writing in the Darth Banes series when the only thing he did was flesh out an already existing story from the Star Wars comics in this case published and years before the work on these books began.
The author does know his Star Wars I would say, he was even involved in the KotoR franchise which have the most interesting story and the most interesting characters in the Star Wars universe todate. Besides the books where many are crap and the movies there are many more sources for star wars fiction like the many many comics or games created around the universe and they sometimes give a better view than even the books.
The comment was 3 years ago. Let it go everyone Mar 02, PM. Why is star by star higher I would say top Apr 25, AM. The author has no concept of w I'm glad you posted this comment. I've been a fan of SW for thirty years but just started reading these books. My first experience was this trilogy specifically chosen because of reviews I found here. I'm very disappointed. May 31, PM. I've only read 32 books up to the date of this posting.
Dec 10, PM. I've only read 32 books up to the date of this posting " I agree with you as well that the Darth Bane Trilogy was good but not necessarily great because it was all very dark and not a good blend of humour; tragedy; action; suspense etc that you see in a well developed Star Wars novel that stays true to the movies.
Jun 03, AM. I'm not subbing to this unmoderated list full of non-Star Wars books. Aug 09, PM. When Avar Kriss is informed of the growth, she finds ten such items of debris and spreads the word that those people are to be saved as well.
As the rescue goal continues apace, Captain Finial Bright of the Republic Protection Coalition compromises his life so his staffs, Innamin and Peeples, can evacuate the wounded team of Solar Array X prior to it blows up.
Admiral Kronara loads Avar know what it suggests: because the celebrity is R-class, if the tank strikes it the star will almost double in dimension and start producing radiation lethal to the lifeforms in the system.
As an additional discharge proceeds, Avar calls out to the Jedi in the Hetzal system once more, established to save it. She brings them with each other in an initiative to use the Force to press the tank off of its clash. The initiative is immense and tiring, with some participants, such as Jedi Knight Rah Barocci, passing away as a result of fatigue.
At one factor Avar loses the tank, before Estala Maru finds it once more. Keven Tarr transmitted the Jedi effort on the HoloNet, making certain that they unconsciously had a stellar target market. The Hetzal system has actually been saved.
But it is not over. Someday later, the initial Development takes place in the Ab Dalis system. Seven fragments of the Heritage Run appear in the system. Six pass through harmlessly. The 7th hits Abdominal Dalis as well as kills twenty million individuals. In the results, Larence Garello of Garello Technologies chooses to transfer his business and also staff members. Nonetheless, the convoy is attacked, and not simply by any type of pirates: they are targeted by the Nihil, a specifically frightening group of marauders that have developed a reputation in recent years for leaving few survivors.
Larence Garello is not one of them. Lina has chosen to extend the hyperspace closure around Hetzal for thousands of parsecs up until more notification, which Noor warns could strangle the Outer Rim. Until now, fifteen Emergences have occurred, yet the cause is still unknown, as is the risk of a similar event. The Jedi verify that the situation does not appear to have actually been caused by Force individuals. Avar and Jora agree that the terminal is basically complete. Lina introduces that she desires the group to get to the origin of the situation, with the event as their target date, otherwise it could be completion of the Republic.
As the debris of the Tradition Run is pieced together in the Hetzal system, Avar, her pal Elzar Mann, Assistant Lorillia, Senator Noor as well as Keven Tarr review the scenario, as the hyperspace blockade increases with every brand-new Emergence. Keven suggests that with enough navidroids, he can reproduce the monitoring system he utilized during the catastrophe as well as have the ability to anticipate brand-new Developments. Avar as well as Elzar back him up, as well as Lorillia guarantees to obtain Keven the droids.
The Muun also recommends that the two Jedi visit the San Tekka clan, a family of prominent hyperspace miners that could be able to help. Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro, that hands out the distinct hyperspace Paths that enable the Nihil to travel in ways others can not, thinks the consequences of the Great Disaster notes the requirement for a temporary slowdown of operations, due to the risk of the Republic as well as Jedi finding out about their capacities.
Because one of the Tempest Runners agrees with him, it will certainly occur. However, Lourna Dee convinces Ro to accept a work suggested by among her Clouds: kidnapping a family from the Outer Rim globe Elphrona to ransom money to their rich relatives.
At that self-same outpost, Bell Zettifar is pushed off a cliff by his master so he can find out controlled descent, but is captured by Indeera Stokes when he falls short, something Loden knew would certainly occur. Although Celebrity by Star is certainly my preferred book in the New Jedi Order series, this book does not feel like a let down. It gives a solid psychological tone that follows Jaina around as she is being attracted by the dark side.
This publication is an outstanding follow up to the activity loaded publications that came before it and permits the reader to breathe a bit prior to continuing the epic Star Wars legend.
I feel for this writer, having to write the next publication, after the dark mess, as well as outrageous murder off of a personality the previous book left. Star Wars — Dark Journey Audiobook. She is mosting likely to need to manage all the major characters in grief … once again just what we really did not want.
This calls for a fill-in book, as well as she manages this needed pain segment without dragging us down further as the previous writer did. The characters emotions vascillate, as is typical, when one is forced to maintain operating after a loss. So obviously they have moments of sorrow, and afterwards something to keep them going because they have no choice. This was actually the very first publication in which I started to like Jaina, where she was allowed to choose, which advised me of her dad Han Solo.
The book is a great deal less complicated to check out, and also the activity is reasonable, unlike Celebrity by Celebrity with over-descriptions of the fight, utilizing terminology to discuss points that I do not even recognize what they are, nor might I even envision what was going on.
This was simple to read, and also satisfying. We also got some intelligent humor back right into the tale and also some stabs back at the mighty Tsavong Lah, to lighten what is an unavoidable depressing turn of occasions — because of the previous author who almost made me quit reading this collection. I was unable to put this book down. Dark Trip was another great book in the New Jedi Order series. Coming off the heels of Celebrity by Celebrity, Jaina as well as her Jedi friends leave the torment of the Yuuzhan Vong by jumping into the Hapes Collection, where vengeance continues to be of a disaster committed by one of the Solo brother or sisters.
It exists that politcal rivalies heat up in a competition to obtain Jaina to end up being the following Queen Mother of Hapes. Is he active or dead? Reading this publication will not tell you, yet I advise it anyhow. All I can state is, this book deserves two times what it sets you back. From the minute I picked it up, to twenty-three hours later when I ultimately completed it, I lived in the Star Wars world.
The writer actually nailed almost all the personalities completely, established the plot swiftly and successfully, and all the while kept me on the edge of my seat from page one to three-hundred and also one.
Dark Journey Audiobook. The intriguing part of this facet of the story is that in a lot of Star Wars books when a personality turns to the dark side it is depicted as a terrible mistake, but here, even when Jaina is doing things like shooting dark side lights out of her fingers, all of it is made to appear perfectly logical as well as also reasonable; I know I would certainly do the same thing if my sibling was killed before me. She takes a breath life into prequel canon that few authors ever before take care of, loaded with reverberating emotional depth as well as the nuance we actually deserve as well as require.
Okay … this book is impressive. Who recognized spending a week plus in hyperspace with Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as Bond Organa would certainly be such a thrilling reviewed?! I suggest that. This publication really reveals simply how much Leia learned from her adoptive daddy and exactly how Bail and Obi-Wan grew to rely on each other. Judging by the cover, I was expecting a limp, kids-oriented linkup to the animated t.
Instead, I located an engrossing tale of exactly how Legislator Bail Organa as well as Obi-Wan Kenobi build an one-of-a-kind bond during a mentally-grueling and physically-punishing goal to discover a reported planet possessing Sith artefacts.
Yet, the discussion, the characters, as well as the story are greater than sufficient to keep the web pages turning. There is a great deal to enjoy about this publication, yet the first thing I will certainly discuss is characters. Karen Miller, newcomer to Star Wars books, has actually flawlessly toenailed each and every one that she attempts.
The initial that enters your mind is Yoda. I was astounded, definitely surprised, when she wrote Yoda so beautifully— I can hear his voice from the movie in my head!
Too many authors just blend the sentences so they are backwards, but I might inform that Miller took the effort to work out the audios and also ensure it sounded like Yoda. Plus, this is throughout a war, not every person makes negative jokes like they carry out in Jedi Test. For among the first times in an unique yay! Likewise, Padme gets to show WHY she is supposedly such a fantastic politician, working as an intermediary for Bail as well as Obi-Wan. And also I love it when she informs Anakin to quit attempting to safeguard her from every little thing, to let her be her own individual!
You go, lady! Prior to I get to our major lead characters, I want to talk briefly regarding Anakin and also Ahsoka. Anakin is well done below, a qualified, yet confused Jedi. And Ahsoka is most definitely much more earnest, however fallible Padawan than the irritating Mary Sue from the motion picture.
I enjoyed their small talks, due to the fact that when they said, you found out aspects of them. Wild Space Audiobook Download. We have actually obtained Ben Skywalker on a solo experience that for me will be the defining mission that truly brings him into his own. We have actually obtained the return of the truly excellent Celebrity Wars characters like Lando, Wedge, as well as Booster — an absence this collection has actually really suffered for.
What more could you ask? Star Wars — Exile Audiobook Downlod. I was begining to really feel clinically depressed concerning this collection as a result of how dark the styles are, not that this book makes the story brilliant and also pleased however I was begining to find the series much less fun to review. I chose this book up as a last chance for the series and also review it cover to cover in a pair days. I enjoyed it, it really brings the tale back to the fun adventureous plot without shedding the a lot more threatening undertones that make it interesting.
This Star Wars series has actually been less than motivating in many facets, giving us a tour of various Celebrity Wars authors, reaquainting us with their staminas as well as weaknesses, and all the while complying with a really sluggish relocating master story. When you are utilized to taking a look at the films, with their clear story objectives and also activity laid out with extremely little else, and after that, with Tradition of the Force, are given unclear plot purposes as well as activity with a lot of additional product, it tends to have a diluting effect.
Only if you review like a banshee, and also receive from books 1 to 4 quickly, do you get discover some points beginning to move. Exile is the significant turning point in the series, where motives are found, as well as we can begin to understand the emphasis of the master plot by just having the personalities figure it out on their own.
Not only that, however each character in the stories is provided time to create, plan, and also be evaluated in brand-new and significant means. Jacen is plainly not the celebrity of this book, yet his parents, Han as well as Leia, in addition to old friend Lando drive an excellent part of the story.
While their story brings a great deal of the old good buddy smuggler comradarie back right into the tale, provided it a wonderful cozy allure, the important things taking place around Han and also Leia are in some cases a lot more intriguing the important things that they do themselves.
This is claiming a great deal, due to the fact that really, Han as well as Leia have a quite amazing ride. This book had heart, which the very first one did not, as well as this story had focus, while the first book was entirely scattered. Exile Audiobook Free. I truly seem like a great deal of the good concepts for this series stemmed with Aaron, and maybe he wished to do way too much with the plot of the initial novel and also neglected to simply sit down and also create a great book.
This book was a success on a variety of degrees, and also almost seemed to be an amalgam of the very best attributes of all the authors until now.
Plainly, Aaron needs to be the star writer of this series, and also is very needed to progress the main plot. With Han tackling a crazy objective from the Rebel Alliance after their close call at Yavin, he as well as Chewie wind up mosting likely to Hutt Space to conserve a Rebel soldier.
The quick pace, solid prose as well as excellent characterizations all collaborated for a captivating read. As would certainly be fitting for any kind of Han Solo tale, guide opens up in a cantina. As a viewers, this was a fun method to dive in, and also as part of the entire Journey to Celebrity Wars: The Force Awakens, I suched as the gimmick. It fit completely. In between his banter with Leia, Chewbacca or the Imperials, fugitive hunter as well as smugglers they satisfy, it always seems like something Han would certainly state.
Somehow Rucka finds his own voice for Han which sounds real to the personality yet with entirely brand-new dialog. Couple that with the exceptional use Chewbacca, and you have actually got a winning mix.
Han and also Chewie volunteer to travel to a seedy world on the fringes of Hutt Area called Cyrkon. So while Han is racing the Empire to discover the Rebel, the fugitive hunter and the Empire are likewise racing each other to obtain Han. The hunt becomes shoot outs as well as close calls as Han as well as Chewie make use of every technique they can consider to get away as well as succeed.
The whole point has a fantastic Celebrity Wars ambiance to it. It nails the personalities, includes all kinds of fun tidbits, as well as is simply an enjoyable flight. For beginners, the cover musician, Phil Noto, does a number of indoor images depicting scenes from the book.
In complete there are 5 double web page images. In addition to that, the product guide itself it covered in— or constructed from— gives the hardbound an actually wild, tactile feeling. I have actually never ever really felt a book similar to this prior to.
The important things is, everytime you most likely to select it up, it includes a brand-new feeling to your analysis experience: your feeling of touch. So here you have this enjoyable tale, this cool sensation publication, as well as these cool pictures all coming at you and contributing to your experience. I need to tip my hat to Disney Lucasfilm Press. This is a trendy publication. There are bugs. And also sentient crystals. The end of Callista by and large.
And a former Hutt Jedi? They have a populace of drochs on the planet, which allow old bugs that make use of living beings as hosts as well as eat their power. It makes the Black Death appear like that a person time you got the flu truly negative. Exactly how on earth a number of bugs preying on life energy suddenly changes into a plague is never discussed in such a way that makes much feeling.
Oh well. The good thing is that Nam Chorios obtains weak however continuous sunlight from their nearby celebrity. It is, you could say, a planet of twilight. Hambly was creating a lot of vampire fiction at the time, so basically think of these guys as insect vampires?
There are plenty of resemblances. If they leave via a going to spaceship … then we have actually got troubles. So the planet is cut off, yet Leia is still visiting it. She gets kidnapped by Ashgad due to the fact that whoop-dee-doo, what was she anticipating to happen once she went off guides?
Luke determines to head down to the planet due to the fact that his sis had already gotten word that Ashgad was a bad dude from … Callista! Luke figures he should simply attempt to encounter her nonchalantly and also look surprised, I think. Obtain outta town! Which is a remarkable concept! Hutt Jedi! So awesome! Beldorion was up to the dark side when he reached Nam Chorios on an objective as well as made himself ruler of the earth. Planet of Twilight Audiobook Download. Uh, much less outstanding.
With what? See, there is one more enchanting species on Nam Chorios called Tsil, which are sentient crystals. In order to do that, they have to obtain the crystals off-world, so they likewise need individuals to land on the earth— thanks Leia!
Evidently drochs can give you life power if you eat them? Due to the fact that you take in the energy they pull in from hosts? That, and the Tsil really enhance Force capacities. Yes, every one of these points do exist on the same planet, you know far better than to ask that now.
The moment of reckoning is nearby. Occasions in the New York Times very successful Star Wars The New Jedi Order collection take a crucial turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most unpredictable clash yet with the adversary — from without as well as within.
In the war against the fierce Yuuzhan Vong, the loss of Coruscant leaves the New Republic split by internal strife, and also on the verge of bowing to occupation. Yet those who steadfastly decline to consider abandonment — Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, as well as their children and comrades-in-arms — are figured out to take triumph against frustrating chances.
After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong knowledge, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a bold surprise strike versus an opponent flagship.
Yet even as opposing armadas face off in the midsts of room, intrigue runs widespread — in the warmed political race for Chief of State … in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot murders … and also in the inscrutable animal Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is difficult to anticipate. And as Luke Skywalker approaches improving the Jedi Council, the growing intrigue opposed to the means of the Force reveals a distressing tool made to obliterate the Yuuzhan Vong species.
Yet in doing so, they might be dooming the New Republic to coming to be the actual thing it has testified fight versus — as well as releasing the power of the dark side. Yes it is activity packed, and very dark yet fantastic too. The Vong are ruthless and also if they are to be defeated a great rate needs to be paid. Some followers may not such as the dark tones this collection has adapted yet I for one love it. Its about time the jedi fulfilled an adversary that had not been easily eliminated offf with one strike from their lightsaber.
I do nevertheless have a small complaint; having actually bought the audiobook version I believe it was a little bit also concise this time around round. Abridging a or page book is fine but a large book such as this and also with a slue of personalities, well I make certain there were sub-plots which I did not discover.
Yes, as constantly, the main tale existed and also music and also funky sound impacts yet I think they ought to have consisted of a bit a lot more. The viewers did a good task and as every other follower, I can not await the next one ahead outt. Directly, I want to see the collection get back at a little darker prior to the final pivotal moment comes; yet allows extra the solos for a while.
Extremely suggested. This publication is a wonderful enhancement to the star battles books. I love to pay attention to this amazing story of just how the rebels came to be to battle the empire for control of the galaxy.
It is a remarkable tale concerning a syth who figures out that he really is as well as to quote a phrase from the star battles films.
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