Rogue Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 1)
by Michael A. Stackpole

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Book Review: I Have Come Home
Summary: 5 Stars

Wedge now leads the squadron and has spent the past while assembling the best of the best to be in the new Rogue Squadron. Enter Corran Horn, a young Corellian Security agent who left his homeworld to join the Rebellion. Next is Captain Tycho Celchu, a former Imperial pilot who defected after his homeworld of Alderaan was destroyed by the first Death Star. Alliance command doesn't like Celchu, forcing him to be escorted everywhere by armed guards and fly craft without weapons and armed with destruct mechanisms. Also added to the squadron are Ooryl Qrygg, a insectoid Gand; Nawara Ven, a male Twi'lek and former lawyer; Rhysati Ynr from Bespin; Bror Jace of the bacta cartel on Thyferra; Erisi Dlarit, who is from a competing family on Thyferra; Peshk Vri'Syk, a Bothan; Gavin Darklighter, cousin of Biggs and youngest member of the squadron at sixteen; Riv Shiel, a Shistavaenen wolfman with an Imperial death mark on his head; Lujayne Forge, a beautiful woman from Kessel; and finally Andoorni Hui, a Rodian.

Rogue Squadron is filled with terrific action that Stackpole has become famous for, basing a lot of the combat on the popular X-wing & TIE fighter games by LucasArts, and giving the reader a wonderful feel for starfighter combat. Stackpole conveys through his characters great emotion, especially through his alter ego and my personal favorite character, Corran Horn, who is the star of the series. Corran is also beginning to notice that he is privy to a much greater universe, and his relation to the Force may be greater than he ever knew. Wedge meanwhile must come to terms with ghosts from his past, while keeping the new Rogue Squadron from ending up like Jek Porkins or Biggs Darklighter who died at the Battle of Yavin. Wedge's attempt to distance himself from the rest of squadron fails, even after they start dying.

I'm sorry I never read these sooner, for they are excellent light reading and great fun! Rogue Squadron is peppered with great action, and some genuinely interesting and likeable characters. And, Star Wars finally gets some sex appeal as Corran Horn might be the first character to notice girls. Plus the book introduces the honestly creepy and decidedly evil Yssane Isard, who reminds me of a more vicious Emma Frost, and just as cold. She is a woman of beautiful countenance, but who can freeze a man's soul with a glance, earning her the name of Iceheart by allies and enemies alike.

The Force will be with you, always.

Summary of Rogue Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 1)

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