Darksaber (Star Wars)
by Kevin J. Anderson

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Book Review: Anderson's best in the Star Wars Universe!
Summary: 5 Stars

Durga the Hutt, the new baddie for the book is a horrible, disgusting and yet hillarious enemy. There is a part in the book in which one of Durga's crew men, a nikto I believe, makes some mistake and Durga presses a button on his control pad. But instead of the Nikto, the Twi'Lek sitting next to him explodes in flames. Anderson discribes the moment with a chilling discription, "...the alien opened his mouth to scream, but instead of sound, flames erupted from his mouth..." and so on until you can't help but cringe. At the end of it all, with all eyes on Durga, the Hutt says "Whops, wrong buttton." Now is that not the most classic segment of a Star Wars Novel you can think of?

The only thing Anderson should learn to avoid is superweapons. Again we have a Death Star-like weapon that the bad guy uses. Zahn and the others have done wonders avoiding those things and yet Anderson keeps bringing them back. How many times has Zahn blown a planet up? 12?

All in all its a good book with a good plot, a good romance backstory and a wonderful bad guy. I give it a five and a round of applause, it easily makes the my list for the top 5 Star Wars novels.

May the Force be with you...

Summary of Darksaber (Star Wars)

It's eight years after the battle of Endor, and the Hutts are hoping to make a galactic power play using Lemelisk's latest project, a sort of cylindrical Death Star superlaser-on-steroids, dubbed Darksaber. But the newly empowered Rebels and the recovering Empire aren't sitting idle. As the book opens, Han and Luke are sneaking their way across Tatooine's Dune Sea, dressed in Tusken drag. Luke's looking to commune with Obi-Wan to learn how to save his Jedi squeeze, Callista, recently rescued from the innards of the ship computer on Palpatine's super-duper Star Destroyer. Meanwhile, the ranks of the Imperial Fleet swell under the charismatic Admiral Daala. Will Luke help Callista touch the Force again? Where will Daala's fleet strike a blow against the New Republic? Will Lemelisk's new invention hold together long enough to save his own hide? The skilled Kevin J. Anderson sure makes it fun to find out. --Paul Hughes

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