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Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
by Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
Becky's review
bookshelves: science-fiction, series, movies
Jan 10, 11
bookshelves: science-fiction, series, movies
Recommended to Becky by:
Trevor
Read from December 29, 2010 to January 08, 2011, read count: 1
When I started this book, I was NOT in the mood for it. But I seriously tried to give it a fair assessment as I read. Trevor has been trying to get me to open up to the Star Wars book world for years...
My final assessment: I may decide to read more of these when I have nothing else better in mind.
Pro: Luke's character development. He is so much cooler than the movies make him seem. Especially now that he's a real Jedi. He has much deeper feelings than you'd expect.
Con: Tons of spacey terminology that includes starships and TIE fighters, technology, and worlds, that isn't explained as well as it should be because you're supposed to already know a lot about Star Wars. I wasn't completely lost. But it did lack a lot of the exposition that would normally occur because most readers would already know EXACTLY what a TIE fighter looks like. Or EXACTLY what a star destroyer looks like. I sort of just made up a lot of stuff in my mind.
Pro: Kashyyyk. It was much cooler than I was expecting. The Wookies also.
Con: Leia and Han seemed very flat for most of the book. Not until about 3/4 of the way through did I really start connecting to either of them.
Pro: I like the idea of Mara Jade working for the Emperor in the movies. She is super interesting.
My final assessment: I may decide to read more of these when I have nothing else better in mind.
Pro: Luke's character development. He is so much cooler than the movies make him seem. Especially now that he's a real Jedi. He has much deeper feelings than you'd expect.
Con: Tons of spacey terminology that includes starships and TIE fighters, technology, and worlds, that isn't explained as well as it should be because you're supposed to already know a lot about Star Wars. I wasn't completely lost. But it did lack a lot of the exposition that would normally occur because most readers would already know EXACTLY what a TIE fighter looks like. Or EXACTLY what a star destroyer looks like. I sort of just made up a lot of stuff in my mind.
Pro: Kashyyyk. It was much cooler than I was expecting. The Wookies also.
Con: Leia and Han seemed very flat for most of the book. Not until about 3/4 of the way through did I really start connecting to either of them.
Pro: I like the idea of Mara Jade working for the Emperor in the movies. She is super interesting.
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Reading Progress
| 01/03/2011 | page 89 |
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21.0% | |
| 01/03/2011 | page 89 |
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21.0% | "the luke, leia, han storyline is more interesting that i thought it'd be so far. i just need to find a way to get into all the tactical spaceship crap." |
| 01/03/2011 | page 119 |
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28.0% | "after a lunch more of reading... i like luke a lot better. he's much deeper than the movies make him out to be. han and leia are sort of the opposite. and the space battles are still hard to follow because i don't know what everything is supposed to look like." |
