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: "Very good" isn't quite so good.
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm not really OCD when it comes to the spines of my books being straight, but I like them to look somewhat nice. The web site said that this book was in either "very good" or "like new" condition (I don't remember which for sure now). However, when I got it, I was disappointed to see that the spine was bent as if the last reader had folded all the pages backward around the spine. Also, the spine was barely readable because it was almost all white from wear. Some pages in the book were even bent in a couple places as if they were used as bookmarks. Overall however, it was a great read. I wasn't disappointed by the content, simply the condition of the "very good" condition book.Book Review: Bitterly Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
Sadly this turned out to be another book about Han, Leia and all the old folks that have become so routine. Their dialogue is one dimensional, their quips predictable, and **yawn** not a single Jedi Master dies. Kyle takes a lightsaber through the chest. Does he die? No! He miraculously survives. Saba gets blown to bits. Does she die? No! She limps away. The great Sith Lord just can't seem to kill anyone but a scrawny newbie jedi and his own subordinates. No force lightning, no awesome Sith Lord kicking tail, just trusty Han with his good ol' blaster; firing away before his brain can even register what happened. Dang he's good.
There is no tension in the latest books in the series because we know the authors refuse to kill more of the old characters. I am growing so tired of buying a book I think is about the rise of a clever Sith, and end up reading about the invincible good guys. You know, the ones who butcher anyone stupid enough to disagree with their views, send friends on suicide missions and betray their homelands all in the name of the Light-side of the Force.
What happened to Caedus? He was so clever, so in control. Now he's a loser; tricked, decieved and out manouvered by a gang of self-righteous grandparents. The first few books tricked me into thinking we might have a grown-up book about a credible Sith. What we got was the same old hash.
Caedus is turning into a flat character, another psychopathic Palpatine. What happened to the Caedus that embraced the Dark-side for the good of the galaxy? I didn't count the pages that were devoted to this character I was begining to enjoy, but it wouldn't have taken me long. I don't think the author knows who he is. He certainly loves to write pages and pages about Leia and Han; Grandma and Grandpa save the day. Hurrah.
Coming up next, a book about Boba Fett disguised as a book about a Sith Lord. What was his name again?
Book Review: Fury is how bad this book and the series are
Summary: 1 Stars
Another very poor book in the Legacy of the Force series. Wish I could give the Legacy of the Force series negative points! By now the series is showing very poor continuity, unrealistic actions by the main characters and there is little in this that represnts the best of any of the Star Wars canon. I wish I had saved my money and avoided this book! The characters are so flawed and dark that there appears to be no point in mentioning the light or good side of the force. Even Luke has regressed and seemed to have forgotton all the lessons that he's learned from his past experiences and teachers. I almosy wished they had killed him of along with so many of the other main and minor characters killed in this series.
I'm sadly done with Star Wars for now unless future books return to a reasonable level of quality. This is poor writng and in many ways a poor rehash of the original 3 movies.
Book Review: Each New Book is the Worst
Summary: 1 Stars
It's so difficult to continue to pick up this book to read it, but I keep telling myself to finish the series I started.
Aaron Allston started out doing well in this series, but it seems from this book that he grew tired of this storyline. The other authors didn't help, especially Traviss' addiction to Mandalorians and their completely unrelated storyline taking up half of each of her books.
But, really, it is almost physically painful to continue reading this. The writing just plain sucks, and even the ideas of how events occur and characters' reactions to them are completely out-of-place and absurd. And I'm not even going to talk about the dialogue. Unbelievable. I mean, *I* almost feel embarrassed to read this.
Summing it up in one word: Disappointing.