Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7) by Aaron Allston
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Book Reviews of Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7)
Book Review: awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
this book was great. i enjoyed reading it very much. i can't wait to read the last 2 booksBook Review: Legacy of the Force: Fury
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a disappointing read after 'Inferno'. Aaron Allston writes a good book, but this book wasn't the greatest.
Jacen/Caedus is very pathetic in this. Kidnapping his daughter to force his secret lover to turn her fleets over to him. How unbeleivable can you get! He spends a lot of time fuming about how unfair the rest of the galaxy is and how he is only doing what is best. To end this book he strangles, using the Force, a junior officer because she was not able to predict that a shuttle actually contained Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, another Jedi and some others to destract Jacen/Caedus and rescue Allana.
The Jedi are trying, unsuccessfully, to kill Jacen/Caedus and so far have succeeded in planting a tracer on him. Hopefully he won't change his clothes.
The Allana passages read like something out of a children's book. They could have been a book of their own. "What will I do if Jacen doesn't say the special words?" Ha, Ha, Ha.
Luke is still greiving over Mara's death and Ben is a little childish in the first half of the book. At least he grows up in the end.
Han and Leia have some very interesting scenes in this book. They had to go to some rather extreme lengths to gather some imformation to help Jaina, Jag, and Zekk track down Alema Rar. Now they have a good way to locate Jacen's/Caedus's ship.
Jaina, Jag, and Zekk are getting very close to locating Alema Rar. The breastplate and crushgaunts that Boba Fett sent proved very effective in the scene on the astroid. I won't say anymore on this cause that would be a spoiler.
The Confederation has unleashed an ancient superweapon in the Corellia system.
Luke and the Jedi plan an operation to rescue Allana and to destroy Centerpoint Station.
Wedge and Tycho get some brief scenes in this book and are now semi-allied with the Jedi, at least that is the case with Tycho, Wedge is diffently on the side of the Jedi.
I recommend this book only if you have read some of the other books in this series or have read a lot of the reviews for these book. Otherwise, you could skip this book.
May the Force be with us!!
Book Review: A worthwhile read!
Summary: 4 Stars
Aaron Allston does a great job in the 7th installment of the Legacy of the Force series. Above all else, he has crafted a well-paced novel with action and events spread out evenly. For those readers who want a build-up and big finish, this book is probably going to disappoint you. The last sequence is supposed to sound important, but I didn't get the feeling like anything was resolved by destroying something epic.
We also get to see some fringe charaters from Allston's previous book, and some good old charaters from...Allston's previous X-Wing books. However, this book is nothing like his previous work, with the exception of some good old pilots humor. It really broke the tension when people starting making jokes, thanks!
IF I liked this book so much, why only 4 stars? Well, because as the series progesses, I find it more and more ridiculous. Jacen seems a lot like the bad guy on every cartoon show, he always gets away...but just barely. Luke is torn emotionally, which is understandable, but it's hard to read...but not as hard as "Children of the Jedi".
Of course if your a fan, you'll enjoy the lightsaber duels, space battles, and plot deveolopment...but the more this series lingers on, the more I grow tired of it.
Perhaps in the next arc, we can have the bad guy go down in book 6, and use the next 3 books to deal with the aftermath....kinda more realistic.
But who am I kidding? If I wanted realistic, I would read something else.
Book Review: Tired Plot Told Star Wars Style and It Worked
Summary: 4 Stars
Warning, there may be mild spoilers ahead. The book is good, no doubts there. The whole business with Allana struck me as a very very tired plotline being used, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it actually worked. I wish Tenel Ka had a greater role in the story, but with two more books ahead, I can still hope. I shall endeavor to keep my comments related to this book.
Jacen's an idiot, as usual. Homicidal maniac too, but I guess if we wanted to get real technical he's probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Tired excuses aside, the authors of this series have done a nice job of presenting his unstable mental state.
There's one reason I would give this book 5 stars and it involves killing someone, but I shall refrain from mentioning who as that would be more than a little spoiler. Still I never did like said character and finally having said character offed was emotional bliss. We all know the authors have their pet characters, and this one just hung around for far too long. Annoying as all of everything foul.
Jaina has more than a cameo role, finally. Jag puts up some decent fighting. Han and Leia have their fair share of adventures. There's not much to complain about character-wise or plot-wise, aside from the sheer over-doneness of certain plot "twists".
Four stars for a well-written, humorous book in a series that is slowly improving.
Book Review: A good book in a good series
Summary: 4 Stars
Unlike most of the others I loved this book. Here we see Jacen fall completely fall into the trap of the darkside. Yes he wanted to bring peace and justice to the galaxy by learning the ways of the sith and the darkside. But like many before him, as he gained this power it began to corrupt him. And here we see him go full blown to the darkside. Even going so far as kidnapping his own daughter to get back what was taken from him in the last book. While it was pretty obvious he wouldn't do what he threatened, and was only using this as a ruse to get what he wanted, the face that so many people believed he would should tell anyone how twisted he's become. And finally we see Luke come around and start acting as a leader again.
Can't wait for the next installment.