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Thrawn is the kind of character that can easily be dull. His powers of deduction are so strong, he’s always fifty moves ahead of everyone else and super smug about it. This book makes the good move of showing him both out of his element politically as an alien in a prejudiced Empire as well as having to prove himself to skeptical and/or arrogant superiors, even when it’s clear he is right. Showing his rise to power is fun to see for the most part.
The b-plot of the book, the rise of Governor Pry ...more
The b-plot of the book, the rise of Governor Pry ...more
- Cut Pryce out of this book and you'd have maybe 250 solid pages. She brings nothing to the story but pain and misery for the reader, because she is so boring. Ever wonder how a D-list character from "Star Wars Rebels" got her first apartment in Coruscant? How about her second apartment? Yep!
- I have a pretty low bar, but I have to call it when I see it: Zahn's writing style just rubs me the wrong way. "Came" is a passive verb, and cannot be interchanged with "said", "shouted", "interrupted", e ...more
- I have a pretty low bar, but I have to call it when I see it: Zahn's writing style just rubs me the wrong way. "Came" is a passive verb, and cannot be interchanged with "said", "shouted", "interrupted", e ...more
Zahn did it again. Thrawn is amazing.
Oct 13, 2024
Jake
marked it as gave-up-on-or-read-parts-of
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Megan
added it
