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Dark Force Rising: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy) (Star Wars: the Hand of Thrawn, 2)

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The “Dark Jedi” attempts to attack them both and after a brief fight is knocked out by a laser blast from nearby R2D2. Second part of the New Republic trilogy (commonly known as the Thrawn trilogy for obvious reasons), which begins right at the end of the previous novel Heir to the Empire, and follows the events from there. Maybe it would have worked better if we got inside Thrawn's head this time but it's still the same thing where it's all through the point of view of captain Palleon. Evil Jedi extraordinaire who errrr does nothing except preside as court judge to a bunch of farmers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Also, here is hinted the first time in EU that the Senate took part in the destruction of the Jedi (which, honestly, is what they did. Zahn proves here that he can nail the character's voices without just recycling dialogue again and again (although a few classic lines make it into this as well! In conclusion, "Dark Force Rising" is a thrilling and captivating addition to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. La parte de Leia es la que más me ha gustado, ver su punto de vista como embajadora y política, además de su parcial entrenamiento como Jedi. Aun así estoy seguro que habrá novelas que disfrutare más aún que las de Zahn (y menos seguramente, habrá cada mierda ahí.Even the movies have mistakes of storyline between each other and they are just six films (for now). Además que continuamente la llaman Lady Vader, siendo ella todo lo opuesto a lo que era aquel, algo que debe afrontar. The other new characters such as Senator Garm Bel Iblis, Winter, Niles Ferrier, Councilor Fey'lya and Ghent are all one-note characters with a single defining characteristic each. This is the part I like the least, giving the empire too much of an advantage (they take about 170 for just 30 for the Republic. Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, C-3PO; even Chewie and R2-D2 all fall extremely flat when compared to their movie counterparts.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Twi'Lek females are always sex slaves, and Jawas are scavengers that apparently can be found off their homeworld of Tatooine (weird, eh? Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness, and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the dark side.The Thrawn Trilogy, of which this is the second book, set the standard for "non-canon" star wars books and is still among the best in that group.

I think she has even better books later on, but this book was excellent for her character development).Regardless, I'm confident it's going to build up to something spectacular, and I can't wait to find out how this trilogy resolves. Mara Jade, the former Hand of the Emperor, which we know here was one of several and not the only one as she believed, continues to attract my attention. While thankfully the books are all but saved by the presence of interesting newcomers Talon Karde and Mara Jade (despite their being fairly transparent Mary-Sues), virtually every single other new character is flat and boring. However, again, due that the novel was written several years before of that any happened before Episode IV, so it was great to watch all the details and planning done by Timothy Zahn, the author, about the Clone Wars and events around that era, however, nowadays there are already some “timeline mistakes”, but.

Han and Lando had more interesting things to do this time around because they got anew character to work with: Senator GArm Bel Iblis. With the aid of unimaginable weapons long hidden away by the Emperor on a backwater planet, Thrawn plans to turn the tide of the battle, overwhelm the New Republic, and impose his iron rule throughout the galaxy. Even though he didn't have much airtime, Wing Commander Wedge Antilles of Rogue Squadron was becoming a character which I really liked.

Overall I found Luke training under Cbaoth a pretty clever twist on the relationship between Luke and Yoda. To his character repertoire, Zahn adds Garm Bel Iblis, a former Senator from Corellia--and rival to Mon Mothma. Los buenos siguen siendo los buenos, los malos los malos (y tiene otra escenita a lo el Hobbit de que se van a enfrentar los “buenos” entre si, y de repente viene una nave de los malos y hace que se unan para defenderse antes este peligro… odio este recurso, aunque aquí está justificado) y el máximo peligro que tienen los protagonistas es que se les acabe el combustible en el espacio porque quitando eso son inmortales.

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