JoeGKushner
Adventurer
So I just finished reading Bloodlines, the new entry in the "Legacy of the Force" or something along those lines.
Normally I tend to stay away from Star Wars books because the whole New Jedi Order thing killed the enjoyment of the Expanded Universe for me. Too long and too many changes.
This book attempts to roll back the clock on all those changes and even further roll back to the older generations of Star wars. For example, the Jedi Temple rebuild on Croscant.
The book has a few things going on. The Alliance versus Corellion is one of the big ones. It seems extremely stupid to me that the Alliance just doesn't disolve at this point and allow all planets to rearm. After getting their collective asses handed to them by the outsiders, you figure that they'd realize that they need some fire power. Heck, if nothing else, have Centerpoint be manned by a collection of Alliance planets.
Next up is Jacen's 'fall' t othe Dark Side. Boring. He comes off simply as a self righteous jerk and uses his 'time traveling' powers to spy his grandfather, Darth Vader, to insure that he isn't following the same path, which he is, just for different reasons.
Luke's son Ben isn't portrayed too bad but not really a lot of development with him going on outside of what I'd call typical 'growing pains'.
The older characters in the series, Han and Luke, are well, old bastards who act easily as if they were still in their prime, their age only coming up when compared with their youth in terms of their physical fitness or appearance.
Boba Fett. This is the reason I picked up the book. Good old Boba right on the cover. Well, he's dying see. Being a clone and all. And he decides that he's going to go check out his daughter who he hasn't seen in like 50 years. Then a younger female is introduced. It's blatantaly obvious after a few worded exchanges with her and what she's doing who she is. I don't know if the writer was deliberately planting such obvious seeds or what but man, I'm tired of writers assuming that the readers are plan stone stupid and have to spell out everything in the book.
Boba is also a whiner. Never before had I seen Boba written with a near obsession about his dead father. I don't know if the writer just saw Attack of the Clones or what but every other line is, "I miss my daddy. Damn jedi take everything from me.". Where's the vomit smiley I tell you?
The pacing wasn't too bad and some things get resolved even as other things are set up for the next book and some of the action sequences aren't too bad and I'm kinda curious to see how they're continue to evolve the EU now that it's out of the "New Jedi Order" area but as a first book to read in a long while, consider me unimpressed.
Did I just miss the 'good' qualities of this book or ?
Normally I tend to stay away from Star Wars books because the whole New Jedi Order thing killed the enjoyment of the Expanded Universe for me. Too long and too many changes.
This book attempts to roll back the clock on all those changes and even further roll back to the older generations of Star wars. For example, the Jedi Temple rebuild on Croscant.
The book has a few things going on. The Alliance versus Corellion is one of the big ones. It seems extremely stupid to me that the Alliance just doesn't disolve at this point and allow all planets to rearm. After getting their collective asses handed to them by the outsiders, you figure that they'd realize that they need some fire power. Heck, if nothing else, have Centerpoint be manned by a collection of Alliance planets.
Next up is Jacen's 'fall' t othe Dark Side. Boring. He comes off simply as a self righteous jerk and uses his 'time traveling' powers to spy his grandfather, Darth Vader, to insure that he isn't following the same path, which he is, just for different reasons.
Luke's son Ben isn't portrayed too bad but not really a lot of development with him going on outside of what I'd call typical 'growing pains'.
The older characters in the series, Han and Luke, are well, old bastards who act easily as if they were still in their prime, their age only coming up when compared with their youth in terms of their physical fitness or appearance.
Boba Fett. This is the reason I picked up the book. Good old Boba right on the cover. Well, he's dying see. Being a clone and all. And he decides that he's going to go check out his daughter who he hasn't seen in like 50 years. Then a younger female is introduced. It's blatantaly obvious after a few worded exchanges with her and what she's doing who she is. I don't know if the writer was deliberately planting such obvious seeds or what but man, I'm tired of writers assuming that the readers are plan stone stupid and have to spell out everything in the book.
Boba is also a whiner. Never before had I seen Boba written with a near obsession about his dead father. I don't know if the writer just saw Attack of the Clones or what but every other line is, "I miss my daddy. Damn jedi take everything from me.". Where's the vomit smiley I tell you?
The pacing wasn't too bad and some things get resolved even as other things are set up for the next book and some of the action sequences aren't too bad and I'm kinda curious to see how they're continue to evolve the EU now that it's out of the "New Jedi Order" area but as a first book to read in a long while, consider me unimpressed.
Did I just miss the 'good' qualities of this book or ?
