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“This is an amazing book, great for all of the Star Wars fans!!”
Celine wrote this review Tuesday, September 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is an intriguing book. It is a kind of sequel to Outbound flight. This story is set right after Vision of the Future and tells the story of Luke and Mara's mission to find out what happened to Outbound flight. Both novels can be read as stand alone stories.”
Jessica P wrote this review Monday, April 27 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A good sequel to Outbound Flight. At times the story simply plods along. It was nice to read a story featuring the rebirth of 501 Vader's First as the good guys. All in all a welcome addition to the Star Wars franchise.”
Andrew Johnson wrote this review Friday, December 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book suffers from many of the problems of Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (who coincidentally is a very prevalent writer of Star Wars novels). What I'm referring to is that horrible misuse of a book to sell books that came before it.
rOckY wrote this review Wednesday, September 3 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
In many ways, this felt almost like a duology with book one being Outbound Flight and this being its distant sequel set 50 years after the original. It still features a number of the same characters and in order to get the full benefit of the story, it really helps if you've read the book prior. For even greater enhancement, you should have read both books in the Hand of Thrawn duology. Did I mention Timothy Zahn wrote all three of those books?
This is probably the one Zahn book I like the least, but I will still admit that had I not read the prior books, I'd still enjoy the story. It certainly had the elements of a sort of mystery novel which did progress at a reasonable pace. The characters were mostly necessarily and a benefit to the story although some of them didn't quite make sense in the context of how they were before in Outbound Flight.
It's still worth reading but I'm not sure how much you'll respect Timothy Zahn after this. At least it brought back the 501st as an interesting military unit.”
“I haven't read much Star Wars lately, but I cannot pass up any written by Timothy Zahn. The book starts with a typical whodunnit as Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara Jade are invited to reclaim the ruins of the long-lost Outbound Flight, only to find their trip filled with sabotage and thievery. And that's not even counting what awaits them at the ruins. Once the culprits are revealed, things move at a quicker pace as the Skywalkers use their Jedi abilities to get out more than a few tight spots. The real highlight of the novel is the depiction of the Fighting 501st Legion of Stormtroopers. They also star in the short story,"Fool's Bargain," that's included with the novel.”
John M wrote this review Monday, June 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I was very excited to see Timothy Zahn return to the Star Wars universe and, as always, he didn't disappoint. I love how he continues to develop the Mara Jade character that I believe he created. This is a very well written and enjoyable book”
Justin M wrote this review Monday, April 28 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“brain candy”
plua wrote this review Friday, September 7 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“so you gotta read the other 5 Timothy Zahn books before this one....so what? they totally rock, too!”
Earthpsalm wrote this review Sunday, June 24 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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