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The Hapes consortium, a cluster of sixty-three high-tech worlds, is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. When Han Solo hears the news of Leia's impending nuptials, he reacts with shock. Han always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, but in spite of his heroic exploits he feels she sees him as nothing more than a shiftless rogue and pirate, unworthy of her hand. Now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Tricking Leia into accompanying him, Han flees with her to the beautiful and untamed planet Dathomir, where he hopes to win her heart.
Fearing the imperious queen's reaction to Han's rash move, Luke Skywalker forms an unlikely alliance with Prince Isolder to track down the runaways. But as he, Artoo, and Isolder set off to Dathomir, Luke little suspects that it is the beginning of an adventure that will lead to the discovery of an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained 'witches'...and a showdown with an invincible foe. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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But Leia and Han were both *remarkably* out of character at times. I found the whole idea of Leia falling for some other guy and giddy over him because he's hot and rich pretty lame, and all of a sudden she doesn't seem to care for Han, after all that happened in the movies? And Han resorting to kidnapping her? I don't think so, the Han Solo we knew would have found something better to win back his lady love. Of course if he hadn't done that we wouldn't have gone to Dathomir, and wouldn't have a story. And, I read the novel looking forward to seeing their wedding, and it only gets half a page. What? Wasn't that what the whole novel is supposed to lead up to? Now I've never really been much of a Han/Leia fan, I would rather have seen her end up with someone more like Luke. But weddings are rare in SW, and this is probably the most important (aside from Anakin and Amidala, obviously...), and it deserved a little more book time. These sound like big complaints, but they aren't as huge as this review makes them look.
But this is still a good novel, not on the level of Zahn, but anyway a good read, IMO.
There must be hundreds of force strong people liveing on Dathomir. Why dont we hear about them before hand?
At the end of the book, Luke finds all those records. They were never mentioned again. Why?
Leia is NOT the kind of person who goes running away from the person she loves because her knight in shinig armor comes along. She never would have dumped Han because Isolder came along.
Aside from those things, the book is excellent. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes Star Wars.
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