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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359761.Star_Wars_Legacy_of_the_Force_2_Bloodlines?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Star Wars: Legacy of the Force 2 - Bloodlines" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1174081931m/359761.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359761.Star_Wars_Legacy_of_the_Force_2_Bloodlines?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Star Wars: Legacy of the Force 2 - Bloodlines</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12672.Karen_Traviss">Karen Traviss</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15101099?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>Wow. I guess there aren't a lot of things I can say about this book other then I am not a huge fan of Karen Traviss. <br/> <br/>First of all, the woman cannot write Luke or Mara or Han or Leia for that matter. Thier conversations just seemed so out of charachter. <br/> <br/>And then there were the idiotic thought processes of Mara (really would she really not see the darkness surrounding her own nephew?) Not to mention the relationship between L and M and Ben. <br/> <br/>That being said the hardest parts of this last bit of the book: <br/> <br/>"Poor Grandfather: gifted, exceptional, dismissed, barely tolerated, largely untrained, abandoned. No wonder he resorted to crazed, desperate violence... <br/> <br/>I'm the second chance. <br/> <br/>The Jedi Council dropped the ball. And they paid for it. <br/> <br/>Jacen had accepted his Sith destiny, but now he understood not only that it had to happen, but why. Everything in his life had led to this point because Anakin Skywalker's destiny had been subverted and warped by well-meaning but blind Masters, sending him off on a tangent to do a flawed Palpatine's bidding instead of realizing his own full power. <br/> <br/>I am more powerful than any of you." (Jacen after Forcewalking back in time to see how the Council refused Anakin his title of Master) <br/> <br/>Ridiculous, I think the part when he admits he is prepared to kill Tenel Ka and Allana is where I decided I wanted to hurl. <br/> <br/>Though I will say that the most realistic moment of Han's was this quotation: <br/> <br/><i>I don't know who you are, but you aren't my son anymore. My Jacen would never do the kind of stuff you do. Get out. I don't want to know any more."</i> --Han. <br/> <br/>There are tons of gripes, but maybe its my dissatisfaction with the larger storyline: Omas, internment, secret police, Luke saying he 'isn't a student of history' when his whole life has been determined by the past. Anyway. I wasn't happy, but at the very least I've heard the series picks up with the next book..so stay tuned. (So I lied, I did have a lot to say) <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/279722?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>