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"A careful and effective mix of Gothic horror, survival thriller, and "Star Wars"."--Big Shiny Robot --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Building on the success of Fall 2009's Star Wars: Death Troopers is this
original tale of horror set in the Star Wars universe by horror master Joe
Schreiber, now in mass market paperback.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After the rousing success of Death Troopers, I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately it is one of the worst, most poorly concieved Star Wars novels for years. Dull,thinly drawn characters, villains whose motivations are never fully explained, unoriginal set pieces.
It tries, unsuccessfully to be copy Liam Neeson's seminal action flick Taken, even copying some dialogue from that film word for word, which I was frankly stunned the publisher allowed it to be included.
The action is badly written, especially in regards to any lightsaber combat.
These are stereotypical Sith with familar behaviour and traits, nothing new here whatsoever. You don't care who lives or dies.
In conclusion, this is massive disappointment that totally fails to build on the cleverness of genre splicing exhibited in Death Troopers.
It tries, unsuccessfully to be copy Liam Neeson's seminal action flick Taken, even copying some dialogue from that film word for word, which I was frankly stunned the publisher allowed it to be included.
The action is badly written, especially in regards to any lightsaber combat.
These are stereotypical Sith with familar behaviour and traits, nothing new here whatsoever. You don't care who lives or dies.
In conclusion, this is massive disappointment that totally fails to build on the cleverness of genre splicing exhibited in Death Troopers.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I know the idea of zombies and star wars sounds like it could be good, but thats only because of the 'star wars' part. Zombies are overdone and predicatable. I got this hoping it would suprise me but sadly it did not, the beginning is fantastic because its all very sith and evil, but as soon as the corpses start walking about it just turms into every rubbish zomibie horror ever created: "I know lets hide in this building while they bang on the door outside, what ever shall we do? OH NO Clive got bitten and didn't tell anyone now he's eating Samantha's face in the corner! " Honestly who doesn't see that comming?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I didn't quite know what to make of this book. Despite believing that Star Wars and Zombies goes together about as well as re-mastering and Greedo shooting first, I grudgingly had to admit that Death Troopers was a fairly enjoyable read.
Red Harvest, however, was not so good. It involved a plot so thin it was almost invisible and a cast of characters who were just wooden. Many of them were introduced in some detail before being killed off within a few pages which meant that the already short book (255 pages of story) was mostly made up of pointlessness. The main character was more like a whinging 6 year old girl rather than a Jedi and the Sith Lord's character was just idiotic and not at all intimidating.
What was an otherwise dull and rather inevitable story was made slightly more interesting by the way it was told. To his credit, Joe Schreiber does have a very light writing style and his descriptions of blood spurting and gut spilling almost made me chuckle on a few occasions.
Having said that, I stand by my opinion that horror stories don't really have a place in the Star Wars universe and this book really doesn't lend itself well. The story itself has no impact on the series as a whole so it's certainly one that can be missed. Of course, if you just want a bit of an escape from lightsabers, Jedi and space battles and want to read about Sith students and Jedi getting disembowelled, eaten alive and turning into Zombies then this book might be of interest.
Red Harvest, however, was not so good. It involved a plot so thin it was almost invisible and a cast of characters who were just wooden. Many of them were introduced in some detail before being killed off within a few pages which meant that the already short book (255 pages of story) was mostly made up of pointlessness. The main character was more like a whinging 6 year old girl rather than a Jedi and the Sith Lord's character was just idiotic and not at all intimidating.
What was an otherwise dull and rather inevitable story was made slightly more interesting by the way it was told. To his credit, Joe Schreiber does have a very light writing style and his descriptions of blood spurting and gut spilling almost made me chuckle on a few occasions.
Having said that, I stand by my opinion that horror stories don't really have a place in the Star Wars universe and this book really doesn't lend itself well. The story itself has no impact on the series as a whole so it's certainly one that can be missed. Of course, if you just want a bit of an escape from lightsabers, Jedi and space battles and want to read about Sith students and Jedi getting disembowelled, eaten alive and turning into Zombies then this book might be of interest.
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Sith Zombies!!!! Yuck
I would just like to say I hate horror stories and the genre in general so they might have coloured my review. Read more
Published 1 month ago by K. G. A. Alavi
Every bit the trash that gives Star Wars literature a bad name.
THE STORY:
Sith Lord Darth Scabrous has discovered an ancient Sith secret which he believes will allow him to live forever but which instead unleashes a plague of ravenous... Read more
Sith Lord Darth Scabrous has discovered an ancient Sith secret which he believes will allow him to live forever but which instead unleashes a plague of ravenous... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ian Tapley
Could have been set anywhere
To be honest I didn't really end up thinking of this book as a title in the Star War's universe as it had more in common with a fantasy urban horror story than anything in the Star... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
GREAT BOOK!!
I really enjoyed the whole sith/jedi/undead aspect of the book.His inclusion of an agricorp jedi and it being set on droomund kas dealves deeper into the starwars galaxy than most... Read more
Published 2 months ago by jangofett1136
Excellent read for the Star Wars fan
A good addition to the long list of Star Wars novels.
Perhaps not a must read but if you are interested in the Dark Side then yes, this is a book for you.
Perhaps not a must read but if you are interested in the Dark Side then yes, this is a book for you.
Published 8 months ago by John van de Laar
star wars book red harvest
to be honest , i havent read it yet as it's a christmas present to my self as i buy them and then give them to family and friends ' so that i get the right things. Read more
Published 14 months ago by mr carl
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