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Rating:  -
And indeed, this does smell vaguely Star Wars. But the fact that this story is about as Star Warsy as an episode of Deep Space 9 is painfully driven home by the attempt to buy your belief with the liberal scattering of names from the films and more successful games. Sadly, the entities in the books connect to their previous incarnations almost solely by name.
The story ducks and weaves around the plot, flourishing the film-names like an 8 year old waving hasbro figurines every time his story hits a thin stretch. Luke may spout "force be with you" or Han might mention the Millenium Falcon, but otherwise the bevvy of familiars are attached to poorly handled mannequins that bear absolutely no resemblance to the characters of the same names.
It's hard to tell whether this is because the author was afraid of genuinely wielding Luke Skywalker or if he had the story written and decided to try and fit famous names to some of the cast to meet executive desires to increase the chance of sales.
That said, when I stopped connecting Luke, Leia, Han, Wedge, R2, C3PO, etc with those in the Lucas films, it became a decent enough time killing read.
I think the best praise I can give this book would be this: This could easily be the script for the cut-scenes in a StarWars game, and although you might not find yourself hurrying through a gameplay segment to reach the next cutscene, you would certainly sit through each of them and feel entertained.
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I think overall Betrayal was a good book. It was interesting to see some sith history. I also liked that they introduced Ben Skywalker. It was unusual to see Jacen kill a jedi. It also showed some of the extent of Jacens force powers. I also liked seing some new characters, such as Admiral Niathal. If you read the New Jedi Order and the Swarm Wars series, this is the book for you. I would reccomend this book to all star wars fans.
John Grady Age:11
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I thought this was a nice start of the new series. It's going to continue Jacen's exploration of the Force. I'm excited to see where and how this goes. Plus I want to see how he handles Luke's reactions. I thought that was one of the best parts of the New World Order series with the Vongs was Jacen's maturity and growth through the Force. I really liked this book and how it flipped around to different worlds to keep up with the characters. It wasn't a whole chapter about just one thing but it was flipping you around almost in real time, so you could keep up. I liked how it brought back Han, Leia, Mara and Luke but one of my favorite things was the introduction of a Padawan, Ben Skywalker. I enjoyed how Luke was forced to make choices about where to send him. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to see how both sides of the Force could play out in one person.
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If you are a Star Wars fan, this is a must-read novel. It's very engaging. I read this book (and could hardly put it down) in 2 days. You will not be sorry. It's not boring or over-filled with technical specs like some SW books are and it's got a great story that you want to see through to the end. As soon as I finished this book I went out and bought the next 3 in the series (from a book store because I didn't want to wait another minute to get them in the mail). It's that good.
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So I did something I swore I never would do I brought another Star Wars book. It was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. It is in fact a lot more interesting then the vast majority of what passes for Timothy Zhan these days.
So basically the plot is as follows Corellia is on the verge of rebellion due in large part to one of my favorite bit characters Thraken Sal-Solo it is up to the Solos and the Skywalker's to make things right. Only this time a rift will develop between the two.
After a rough first third of the book a strong story develops with cameo appearances from Admiral Pellion, Wedge Zeek and a few others. The real standouts are Jacen Solo and how he starts to develop as a character and Ben Skywalker who is an interesting mix of the character triats of Anakin and Jacen at that age. There are even some interesting revelations that there were a few siths who were really not all that bad. This in turn begs the question; is this really truth or misinformation to set a particular character on a dark path?
Overall-An interesting beginning I hope the quality remains consistent.
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