Fatal Alliance
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| Book Data | |
| Type | Novel |
| Series | Single |
| Era | Old Republic |
| 3643 BBY | |
| Publishing Data | |
| Author(s) | Sean Williams
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| Hardback | 27-Jul-10 |
| Lucas Books | 24-May-11 |
Synopsis
Smuggler Jet Nebula has stumbled across a treasure richer than he ever dreamed. The Hutts want to auction it to the highest bidder, be it the Republic or the Empire, both of whom hope to bolster their chances in the coming conflict. But the Sith are interested, too, and they don’t bargain with anyone; the Jedi High Council is sending someone to investigate; a mysterious Mandalorian is chasing something connected to a long-forgotten crime; while a spy plays every side at once. What Jet has unearthed will surprise all of them, and leave none of them unchanged.
Lord Depravus Says
Fatal reading - 08-Dec-11
Did you understand a word of that? No me neither and therein lies the problem with this book. It makes no sense whatsoever. I just couldn’t work out what was happening. Every time I turned the page it felt like I was starting a completely new book. We are introduced to lots of bland characters at the beginning and I never managed to work out who anyone was. Their names just didn’t stick in my head and none of them had much depth. The writing was rather laborious and the plot was difficult to follow and rather silly too.
I know this is a tie-in novel to a computer game but giving the force-sensitive characters powers like force shields is ridiculous. The concept of droids that appear to contain superior technology to anything seen 3000 years later was also hard to take seriously.
Also, like with all these new books set thousands of years before the films, I find the lack of technological and social development astonishing. I mean according to this book, the only difference in 3000 years appears to be the addition of the word “Nal” to the planet Hutta…
It is a shame because I quite enjoyed Sean Williams’ similarly computer game based book “The Force Unleashed" so this was rather disappointing.
So now to the good points about this book: The end.