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Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the hostile Sand People, have returned to the dunes of the desert planet Tatooine in hopes of finding what Luke so desperately seeks: contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke is hoping the old Jedi Knight's spirit will tell him how to help his love, Callista, regain her lost ability to use the Force. Tormented and haunted, Luke cannot rest until Callista is a Jedi in the fullest sense, for only then will the link between their minds and souls be restored. Yet brewing on Tatooine is news that will shake Luke and Han and threaten everything they value. The disturbing piece of information is that the evil Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon: a reconstruction of the original Death Star, to be named Darksaber. This planet-crushing power will be in the ruthless hands of Durga the Hutt -- a creature without conscience or mercy. But there is worse news yet: the Empire lives. The beautiful Admiral Daala, still very much alive and more driven than ever to destroy the Jedi, has joined forces with the defeated Pellaeon, former second in command to Grand Admiral Thrawn. Together they are marshaling Imperial forces to wipe out the New Republic. Now, as Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, Artoo and Threepio regroup to face these threats, they are joined by new Jedi Knights and Callista. Together they must fight on two fronts, outshooting and outsmarting the most formidable enemies in the galaxy. In Darksaber Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star WarsStar Wars books of the last thirty years!.… (plus d'informations)
Was it as bad as the first of the Callista novels, "Children of the Jedi", no. Is it good? Also no. Thankfully the publisher took the reigns from Hambly for this book (though why they gave them back for book three is beyond my understanding), though I'm not sure Anderson was the best go to try to fix what was wrong here. Some of the fault lies with still having to use material Hambly introduced. But some of it is Anderson falling into some of his own patterns for this franchise work that could use improvement. Don't get me wrong, the Jedi Academy trilogy was fun, but he leans back into several issues with characterization and plot that existed there. Framed in the trainwreck of the Callista trilogy they become a bit more glaring. Like most Star Wars stories, we've got two or three plots running concurrently, and trying to bring them all to a meeting place near the end. One involves the Hutt's, which are nice to see fleshed out here as I think the closest there was previous to this in publication order may have been bits and pieces in Tales from Jaba's Palace. Unfortunately, this sub-plot involves Anderson leaning into yet another super-weapon. Though it is entertaining to see the comically sub-par Hutt overseen weapons project. I think this material may have been better as a separate shorter work involving a few recognized names (like Madine), but staying entirely away from our 'main' Star Wars trio and companions. We get a little more Qwi Xux with Wedge in this plot too, which feels really extraneous and shoe-horned in. Again, probably better as its own shorter work. The Callista/Luke plot feels absolutely ridiculous, though I'm sure was required to be here by the publisher. Why are the Wampas suddenly smart enough too recognize and disable critical starship systems? Why are they strong enough to claw through ship hulls? Callista is written just as badly and one-dimensionally here as anywhere, and we get lots of just silly fighting between her and Luke. This sort of culminates in Anderson making even the Jedi apprentices and trainees almost unbelievably over-powered (moving/destroying 17 star destroyers? smashing star fighters in the sky?). I feel as though the novelists could have benefited from consultation with some of the authors that worked on the early Dark Horse comic story lines (Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi), who seemed to always have a better grasp on the scope, limits, and nature of the Jedi powers. Brighter points, saving this from one star...the peek into Hutt society and the darkly comedic tone you get with a lot of Hutt stories. We get to see a number of earlier characters brought back and fleshed out a little bit (Daala is *more* interesting here than previously, Pelleon as well). The sub-plot involving the Imperials warring internally....though it does feel artificially rushed/wrapped up in one book. Even chronologically, it feels like Daala is able to unite the the Imperial factions in a matter of days/weeks, and totally change their practices to the point of accepting women and alien troops? This feels like it could and should have been spread out over multiple books and been an 'A' plot, not something more like a 'C' or 'D' plot. All in all, unless you're trying to be a completionist and hit most of these books in publication order, skip this as well. ( )
La hermosa admirante Daala ha unido sus fuerzas a las del derrotado vicealmirante Pellaeon, antiguo lugarteniente del Gran Almirante Thrawn. Juntos estan reuniendo fuerzas imperiales para acabar con la nueva Republica. Entretanto Luke, Han, Leia, Chewvaca,Cetrespedos y Erredos con la ayuda ...
The most interesting part of this book is not the Jedi, or the apprentices, or even Luke and his soggy relationship with Callista, but rather it is the power struggle between various Imperial factions. ( )
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To Lillie E. Mitchell who does so much of the invisible work on these books, allowing me the freedom and the energy to tell my stories as fast as the want to come out of my head
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The banthas plodded in single file, leaving only a narrow trail of scuffed footprints across the dunes.
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The new Jedi Knights continued their work, linked together in the Force, and Luke Skywalker went to join them.
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the hostile Sand People, have returned to the dunes of the desert planet Tatooine in hopes of finding what Luke so desperately seeks: contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke is hoping the old Jedi Knight's spirit will tell him how to help his love, Callista, regain her lost ability to use the Force. Tormented and haunted, Luke cannot rest until Callista is a Jedi in the fullest sense, for only then will the link between their minds and souls be restored. Yet brewing on Tatooine is news that will shake Luke and Han and threaten everything they value. The disturbing piece of information is that the evil Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon: a reconstruction of the original Death Star, to be named Darksaber. This planet-crushing power will be in the ruthless hands of Durga the Hutt -- a creature without conscience or mercy. But there is worse news yet: the Empire lives. The beautiful Admiral Daala, still very much alive and more driven than ever to destroy the Jedi, has joined forces with the defeated Pellaeon, former second in command to Grand Admiral Thrawn. Together they are marshaling Imperial forces to wipe out the New Republic. Now, as Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, Artoo and Threepio regroup to face these threats, they are joined by new Jedi Knights and Callista. Together they must fight on two fronts, outshooting and outsmarting the most formidable enemies in the galaxy. In Darksaber Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star WarsStar Wars books of the last thirty years!.
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Like most Star Wars stories, we've got two or three plots running concurrently, and trying to bring them all to a meeting place near the end. One involves the Hutt's, which are nice to see fleshed out here as I think the closest there was previous to this in publication order may have been bits and pieces in Tales from Jaba's Palace. Unfortunately, this sub-plot involves Anderson leaning into yet another super-weapon. Though it is entertaining to see the comically sub-par Hutt overseen weapons project. I think this material may have been better as a separate shorter work involving a few recognized names (like Madine), but staying entirely away from our 'main' Star Wars trio and companions. We get a little more Qwi Xux with Wedge in this plot too, which feels really extraneous and shoe-horned in. Again, probably better as its own shorter work.
The Callista/Luke plot feels absolutely ridiculous, though I'm sure was required to be here by the publisher. Why are the Wampas suddenly smart enough too recognize and disable critical starship systems? Why are they strong enough to claw through ship hulls? Callista is written just as badly and one-dimensionally here as anywhere, and we get lots of just silly fighting between her and Luke. This sort of culminates in Anderson making even the Jedi apprentices and trainees almost unbelievably over-powered (moving/destroying 17 star destroyers? smashing star fighters in the sky?). I feel as though the novelists could have benefited from consultation with some of the authors that worked on the early Dark Horse comic story lines (Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi), who seemed to always have a better grasp on the scope, limits, and nature of the Jedi powers.
Brighter points, saving this from one star...the peek into Hutt society and the darkly comedic tone you get with a lot of Hutt stories. We get to see a number of earlier characters brought back and fleshed out a little bit (Daala is *more* interesting here than previously, Pelleon as well). The sub-plot involving the Imperials warring internally....though it does feel artificially rushed/wrapped up in one book. Even chronologically, it feels like Daala is able to unite the the Imperial factions in a matter of days/weeks, and totally change their practices to the point of accepting women and alien troops? This feels like it could and should have been spread out over multiple books and been an 'A' plot, not something more like a 'C' or 'D' plot.
All in all, unless you're trying to be a completionist and hit most of these books in publication order, skip this as well. ( )