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siobhanparker
siobhanparker rated it 13 years ago
"The Last Command" was a fitting end to the official (or is it unofficial?) "Star Wars" sequel trilogy. There was plenty of action and suspense, and it wrapped up "Heir to the Empire" and "Dark Force Rising"'s loose ends. You'd definitely have to read the trilogy in order to appreciate it, but, if...
CKs Book Reads
CKs Book Reads rated it 14 years ago
This is literally the best mystery story I've ever read. It's classified as sci-fi because it takes place in the future on space ships, but it's basically a whodunit where the narrator has to solve the mystery before the crime gets pinned on him or he gets killed. I read this over 12 years ago, bu...
siobhanparker
siobhanparker rated it 14 years ago
Picking up where "Heir to the Empire" left off, Zahn continues the interstellar adventures of Han, Leia, and Luke after "Return of the Jedi". If you liked the first Thrawn outing, you'll definitely like this sequel; in fact, I wouldn't recommend reading "Dark Force Rising" unless you've already rea...
siobhanparker
siobhanparker rated it 14 years ago
Even though I've been reading novels from the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe (EU) over half a decade, I somehow missed out on the books that started it all: Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn" trilogy, of which "Heir to the Empire" is the first. "Heir" is actually not the first EU novel; that honor goes to Alan...
siobhanparker
siobhanparker rated it 14 years ago
I wasn't a big fan of the Thrawn trilogy. I thought Zahn's prose was awkward throughout that series. Still, I decided to read this one, since I already had it, and it was much better! It was very well-written, and the story drew me in. I look forward to reading "Vision of the Future".
siobhanparker
siobhanparker rated it 14 years ago
Timothy Zahn is not that great of an author. He uses weird expressions like "bit out" and "point," which I have not read in any books besides his. The story might be good, but it's not worth trudging through the bad writing style. I should have realized Zahn's writing was bad when I couldn't get ...
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Bryan Thomas Schmidt rated it 14 years ago
Another valiant Zahn effort with more focus this time on original characters. In this case, he has rogue stormtroopers and introduces Mara Jade, who is in his Thrawn series and other books as well. This is a lead in to his "Choices Of One" which just came out and which features the same characters. ...
The BiblioSanctum
The BiblioSanctum rated it 15 years ago
I love Star Wars and I love Thrawn, but this series just didn't hook me. Let me just say I thought the story was quite good, but the writing style was hard for me to get into.
DayDreamer
DayDreamer rated it 15 years ago
Wedge looked out at the lights of the shipyard. So once again, as it had so many times before, it was all going to come down to a matter of trust. Trust in a farm lad, fresh off a backward desert world, to lead him in an attack on the first Death Star. Trust in a former high-stakes gambler, who migh...
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Bryan Thomas Schmidt rated it 15 years ago
I enjoyed this thoroughly. Full of tension and suspense like its' predecessor, Lynx finds Frank Compton chasing another mystery involving the Modhri group mind, the Spiders and the Chahwyn. In the midst of it, he falls in love with the woman he's struggling to protect, comes into conflict with a f...
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