Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura
by Kathy Tyers

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Book Review: More fun long ago and far, far away...
Summary: 5 Stars

Still flush from the success of their critical attack against the Empire, the Rebel Alliance troops receive a distress beacon intended for the Emperor and his more powerful Death Star. It seems the Rim World Bakura is under attack by a hostile and previously unknown race from outside the borders of the Empire controlled universe. Seeing an excellent political, not to mention military, chance to shore up support for the Alliance in the coming chaos that will undoubtedly erupt following the spreading news of the Emperor's death, the usual suspects (Luke, Leia, Han, etc) round up and head out to aid the threatened planet.

As a Star Wars story this is a fairly routine, albeit fun, Space Opera filled with derring do and political intrigue. Some reviewers may grumble that there was far too much political intrigue, but I thought that it was well handled and realistic considering the tale's timeline. The book is filled with nice, little intelligent touches as well, like having the chief Imperial baddie not be some power mad Emperor wannabe. I also liked how Luke suffered some debilitating fallout from his final face off with the Emperor and Leia had to face some serious anger issues stemming from discovering just who her father really was. Sadly Han Solo doesn't get to do much except get jealous and shoot people (for different reasons, not jealousy). Comic relief is provided by C-3PO and R2-D2, naturally.

The reptilian Ssi-ruuk get a pretty high register on the Hissable Villain Rating Scale, the "entechment" of their human prisoners is fairly blood curdling and only surpassed by their abusive treatment and constant brainwashing of their Force strong 'pet'/prisoner Dev (a sad character that ads a bitter dose of pathos to this grand adventure series chapter).

While giving five stars to The Truce at Bakura may prove (with further SW spin-off reading) a tad excessive, the novel was far too entertaining of a read for me to be comfortable with just four stars. Recommended.

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