by Aaron Allston
* Allston really needs to look into a thesaurus. Not everyone in the galaxy can be described as lean. And the two uses that I recall of the word diminutive were two uses too many.* Dialog, particularly banter, does not seem to be a strength of Allston. Except in cases involving the old X-Wing squadr...
I had given up on the New Jedi Order books for now; it was getting too tedious and I felt like I needed another series when it comes to getting my Star Wars fix. So I skipped ahead and picked up the first book of Fate of the Jedi, not without a bit of optimism, since I had heard good things. And I f...
Not a bad start to a new series. Allston is one of the better writers of the expanded universe and seems to be able to manage campy dialogue without it being too....well, campy. There's a lot of wry humor in some of the pairings for the simultaneously unfolding subplots that produce some witty bante...
I didn't like the beginning, but after that, it got better. I wonder what's going to happen to Luke after this. Guess I'll have to read the next one.
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