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A secret revealed with a blast from the past...in the fifth novel in a thrilling new story arc for fans of the Legacy of the Force series, the Dark Lords of the Sith, and the most popular characters in Star Wars, Luke, Han, and Leia!
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The fifth instalment of the blockbuster multibook series, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fate of the Jedi is a good series of books,
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This review is from: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi - Allies (Hardcover)
Fate of the Jedi is a good series of books, long may it's ilk continue. Personally speaking it's this new material that makes Star Wars still interesting. The Clone Wars stuff is dull and the Old Republic stuff just does not click with me.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor book in a poor series,
This review is from: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi - Allies (Hardcover)
Having been somewhat disappointed by the whole "Fate of the Jedi" series, excepting perhaps Abyss, I wasn't really expecting much.
I was still disappointed. On the whole the book has it's moments, but I find the whole "insane jedi" thing a dull super-plot, Daala is clearly a patsy to be set up and knocked down by the end of the series, the Sith are an underwhelming gaggle of vaguely evil sounding names, Jag Fel and Jaina are desperate in their paint-drying odessey of will-they-won't-they, and Luke is once again the invulnerable Jedi Master who can't be killed. There is little or no tension built up between the Jedi and Sith despite them being forced together in unfamiliar circumstances. They talk a lot about disliking one another and suchhlike but don't really do anything. And this brings me to Abeloth. What were they thinking when they came up with that idea? it's like they returned deliberately to previous super-villainy characters to make her up. The best bad guys in these books have been fallible and understandable (Darth Caedus, Tsavong Lah, Nas Choka), but we can't be bothered with depth any more. I can imagine the debate at Skywalker Ranch: "Hey, now we've run out of good character development and any new ideas what shall we do now?" "Maybe... Release an all hardcover (cha-ching!) series complete with boring super villains and stable governments and all the lead characters being invulnerable again?" "Great idea" I despair, as I hated the early New Republic books for these reasons and it seems they are backsliding into this again. The NJO and Legacy series had real changes occur in them, they weren't perfect but they took us somewhere and changed our view of characters in the process, the FotJ series seems to be useless fluff, and Allies really epitomises this. Also, Christie Golden is a pretty good author, I don't blame her for the overarching stories that aren't really under her control, but did we really need whole swathes of the book given over to a paint-by-numbers description of why slavery is bad MKAY? Overall, a poor book in a poor series, read NJO or Legacy of the Force if you want some actual stories worth reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Now we're getting somewhere...,
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This review is from: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi - Allies (Hardcover)
I bought this book on the back of the slightly disappointing 'Backlash' and was delighted to find the narrative picks up the pace again whilst introducing new plot threads.
There are some truly heart breaking moments in this book; Tahiri's storyline in particular. The author pulls no punches, a trait sadly lacking in a lot of Star Wars novels. The gritty realism enables you to truly relate to the characters and engage in the human side of the story. I was, however, a little bemused at the ending - with Abeloth's plot line having a slightly underwhelming conclusion. Or is it a conclusion??? I guess time will tell, can't wait for the next installment.
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