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Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing #8)
by
Michael A. Stackpole (Goodreads Author)
Sleek, swift and deadly, the famed X-Wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force the hard way--first in battle, the last line of defense.Now they must make a deal with the devil herself--an enemy whose ultimate goal is their total annihilation.
It's the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to unde...more
It's the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to unde...more
352 pages
Published
(first published April 1999)
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The sound effects and music made the story more fun than it otherwise might have been. Anthony Heald did a good job of reading it. The scene with the X-Wings ripping through the AT-AT's (as seen on the cover) reminded me of a Star Wars RPG game I played in my youth, wherein I took an X-Wing against an AT-AT and ripped through it - prompting us all to ask - why didn't the rebels send their X-Wings against the AT-ATs on Hoth? (Our answer was that X-Wings couldn't actually fly on planets - that the...more
Michael Stackpole returns to the X-Wing series after a brief interlude took us through Han and Leia's nuptuals and the Thrawn crisis. Things are decidedly different in Rogue Squadron following Wedge's promotion to the rank of General after Admiral Ackbar notes that his stubborn refusal to move up the ranks is inspiring his people to take the same stand and his bull-headedness is only hurting their careers. Wedge accepts the promotion and just about everyone else moves up as well. Corran Horn and...more
It was my least favorite of the X-Wing novels, and of the least enjoyable of the Star Wars novels as a whole, simply because I felt like I was reading a story that I’d read before, and that’s the main reason I’m crediting myself with an entire read even though I skipped about 100+ pages in the middle somewhere. It was basically the plot of all of the first four X-Wing books all mish-mashed into one. Corran goes missing, then comes back to life. Iella Wessiri shoots Isard to avenge her dead husba...more
If Joss Whedonand George R.R. Martin are well known for killing off characters we love, Michael A. Stackpole should probably be well known for faking the deaths of the characters we love.
A previous villian from the X-Wing series returns from the dead to extract revenge on Rogue Squadron and attempt to return to power. And Stackpole takes the opportunity to make sure that every character he has ever written for this series of books gets to add the words "returned from the dead" to their resume....more
A previous villian from the X-Wing series returns from the dead to extract revenge on Rogue Squadron and attempt to return to power. And Stackpole takes the opportunity to make sure that every character he has ever written for this series of books gets to add the words "returned from the dead" to their resume....more
“The way we rebuild the galaxy is by making lives better one at a time”
The New Republic is hot off the battle with Thrawn. Admiral Ackbar forces Wedge Antilles to accept a promotion to General so they can deal with the remnants of the Empire and the Prince-Admiral, Krennel, and rescue the remaining Lusankya prisoners. Little do they know that Isard is back and wants revenge.
NOTE: Listened to audiobook.
I Liked:
I don’t know if this audiobook was better edited, or I was paying attention better or t...more
The New Republic is hot off the battle with Thrawn. Admiral Ackbar forces Wedge Antilles to accept a promotion to General so they can deal with the remnants of the Empire and the Prince-Admiral, Krennel, and rescue the remaining Lusankya prisoners. Little do they know that Isard is back and wants revenge.
NOTE: Listened to audiobook.
I Liked:
I don’t know if this audiobook was better edited, or I was paying attention better or t...more
If, by and large, books can be compared to food - the classics being haute cuisine; the terrible books being dog-food - then the X-Wing series of Star Wars books (all written pre-Episode One, and based on the popular LucasArts games) could probably be best described as fast food: enjoyable enough in small doses but you wouldn't want to live on them and not always that memorable.
With regard to this book, which picks up from the end of Timothy Zahn's "The Last Command" (with the ending of that no...more
With regard to this book, which picks up from the end of Timothy Zahn's "The Last Command" (with the ending of that no...more
The penultimate X-Wing novel actually makes for quite good reading; great writing and plenty of action and suspense, with a little drama and romance in the mix. However, the ending (which I won't divulge here) is slightly disappointing, if only because I'm unsure how they could continue the story afterward. I know there is just one more, because I own it; we shall see whether it's any good.
Return to form for Stackpole, and a full return to the series for Rogue Squadron under now-General Antilles and Colonel Tycho. It also brings back some of Stackpole's characters and settings established in the x-wing comics and the first quartet of the novels. As always, Stackpole is on fine form, and the focus on Corran Horn is always a welcome one!
Stackpole is back for another turn with the Rogue Squadron plot, so of course the old nemesis Isard is back as well. I think there was some confusing stuff about clones around here somewhere. Well, who cares? We're not reading for completely coherent plots. We're reading for the dogfights.
Isard the enemy of the rouge squadron is back. And ready to kill the leader wedge antillles and corran withe the crew to the death.
One thing about these books. They tend to blend together, but they all have great cover art!
A gift for successfully ending the series. Predictable and pedestrian.
Not my favorite of the series, but still quite enjoyable.
I HAVE NOT EVEN READ THIS BOOK I DONT KNOW HOW I ENDED UP RATING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I enjoyed the novel, I think I read this too soon after the Wraith Squadron books make the shift back to Stackpole's characters and writing style. I enjoyed Isard as a villain in the first four books, but I felt like her schemes weren't as thought out in this book. I enjoyed seeing the old Rogues, but the switch back from the Wraith Squadron series held me back a bit too much to really enjoy this.
This eighth book is one of the best because it features the return of Ysanne Isard and a new thrat to peace. There is also a sadistic prison commander, Admiral Krennel. The action is taut and fast.
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Aug 24, 2007
Hunter Beck
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Everyone
Shelves:
sciencefiction
Too short and a relatively dissapointing end to an otherwise outstanding series.
It was okay. I just didn't think there was enough story behind it.
Jun 17, 2013
Rory
marked it as to-read
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