The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, Vol. 2)
by A.C. Crispin
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Author: A.C. CrispinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 1997-08-11
ISBN: 0553574167
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Spectra
Product features:
- 1997 - Bantam / Spectra - 1st Edition - Paperback
- Star Wars: The Hutt Gambit
- Han Solo Trilogy : Volume 2
- By A. C. Crispin
- Rare - Collectible
Book Reviews of The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, Vol. 2)
Book Review: "To make the big money, you gotta be willing to take those risks."
Summary: 5 Stars
"To make the big money, you gotta be willing to take those risks."
Han has just been dishonorably discharged from the Imperial Navy for intervening on behalf of Chewbacca, a Wookiee slave. Now, he is unemployed and burdened with a Wookiee, insistent on staying at his side due to a "Life Debt". But Han is clever. He pulls himself up and begins to hone his piloting craft by working for the Hutts, keeping just ahead of the bounty hunters, and meeting people who will influence his life in the future. Oh, and finding the ship that he has his heart set on: the Millennium Falcon.
NOTE: Based on the actual novel (read years ago) and the audiobook.
I Liked:
Having Han team up with Chewie really makes this novel better than its predecessor (which had him team up with Muurgh, a Togorian, and Bria, his Corellian love interest). We get to go with them through their journey, to watch as Han improves his skill, learns his trade, makes an impression on those around him, and meet up with people we know from other novels.
I adored how Crispin really put effort into the continuity of this book. We have Xaverri from The Crystal Star, Salla Zend from Dark Empire, Vuffi Rah from the Lando Adventures, Smuggler's Run, the works. I was particularly impressed with how Crispin intertwined her story with Brian Daley's The Han Solo Adventures (seen even better in the next book, Rebel Dawn. This is true dedication, to work around another author's creation, to spend time paying homage and referencing it. And I applaud Crispin for it.
The novel is definitely more episodic, with not so much of a single emphasis, other than the Ylesia plot you might remember from The Paradise Snare. This works to the story's advantage. Han's life wouldn't be dictated like a "normal" story, and I appreciate the "lack of a plot".
As for the Ylesia plot and the Hutts, I really enjoyed it. It is impressive for her to take the task of making the Hutts interesting, and Crispin succeeded. I felt they were very much like the Corleone's from the Godfather while without being a complete ripoff.
One of my absolute favorite moments in the book was where Boba Fett nearly captures Han Solo and Lando Calrissian comes to the rescue. I love the introduction to Fett, I love how Calrissian was able to get the jump on him, and I love how it set up Fett's grudge against Han Solo. It really showed Fett being a human and not just a flat robot.
I Didn't Like:
The segment near the beginning where Han meets a fortune teller that basically relates how he will become in the movies was unnecessary and only made for a "wink-wink" to what happens to him.
I didn't care how "Hoth" was mentioned. I like continuity, but do so many people have to be aware of these "out of the way" worlds? With the way things go, Tatooine is more central to the galaxy than Coruscant (makes Luke's statement in A New Hope kinda absurd now), Endor is a by-word, and Bespin is as popular as our Disney World. Get real. Make up some new planets!
I wasn't too fond of the time hopping. This may be in part because of the editing of the audiobook (they always cut out stuff from them), but I still felt a little jerked around.
My last big complaint: how the heck did Vader not sense Han in the Imperial governor's office? Han should not have survived that incident.
Overall:
This novel is really clever. While The Paradise Snare had a mediocre romance and a plot heavily borrowed from Oliver Twist, this one was clever and showed that Crispin was good at producing her own story and integrating someone else's. This is the one of the best "middle trilogy" books I've read in Star Wars.
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Summary of The Hutt Gambit (Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, Vol. 2)
Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler and thief.Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!
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