Dark Force Rising: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy) (Star Wars: the Hand of Thrawn, 2)

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Zahn also did a great job with the cliffhanger at the last chapter of this book. It made up for the underwhelming climactic space battle and gave us something dark and ominous. Probably one of the best uses of the line "I have a bad feeling about this" I have seen in Star Wars. Well, there's not much makes up for this faux pas. I don't particularly recognise the old charcters in Zahn's portrayal, they're just names with a shared history that he occasionally alludes to with a choice quote ("never tell me the odds" said Han. Ohhhh Cheers Zahn. ahhahahah good one!) The newer characters are flat like pancakes that don't even have jam or honey on them. Which is ridiculous. Mara Jade bores me to tears. Again, Zahn had the entire universe to fill with cool characters and he creates someone who wants to kill Luke Skywalker because he made her lose her job via killing the Emperor. As Emperor's Hand you'd think she'd expect this. Or have a contingency plan. Or something. You'd think she'd be badass and kill Luke on a hilarious whim. But no, Zahn makes her an incessant whinger. Not so great to read about! Talon Karrde, Yawn. A smuggler with no good dialogue ... scheming Bothan Feyl'Ya (or something) at least had a plot role and I'd have liked to have gotten deeper into political intrigue within the New Republic. Fiction Book Review: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy: Dark Force Rising". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved July 21, 2016.

I also enjoyed Han's story in this book, trying to find the Katana fleet while also learning about the mysterious new characters that enter the series. Lando provides some great balance to the story. Tras los sucesos de la primera parte, la Nueva República (aunque los imperiales sigan refiriéndose a ellos como los Rebeldes) está en espera de los nuevos planes que el gran almirante Thrawn pueda idear contra ellos. Mientras tanto ciertos individuos, ya sabéis quién, iniciará planes propios para ayudar contra esta amenaza. Nuestros queridos personajes irán de acá para allá buscando información, hablando con posibles aliados y hasta con enemigos con tal de conseguir la victoria para los buenos. Es una novela muy entretenida, con diferentes cambios de localizaciones y muchos personajes. Me sigue llamando mucho la atención Mara Jade, la antigua Mano del Emperador, de la que aquí sabemos era una de varias y no la única como ella creía. The character whose story was the weakest was yet again Leia. Her story went a little too long, and wasn't exciting enough for how important and central it was to the story. It should have been in the first or second act, but not in both. Instead, the book just really drags in the middle when it shouldn't. Anyways, I went into Heir to the Empire with a little bit of skepticism. After all, the book is over 25 years old now, so I had the suspicion that maybe the reason people loved the Thrawn books so much was because of blind nostalgia. But I was wrong, for the book still holds up reasonably well. While I don't love it as much as other people do, I still would consider it a great book and it's reputation as a ground breaking classic for the Star Wars franchise is very well earned.The number-one New York Times bestselling Heir to the Empire was the publishing event of the year, the first novel to continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo, beyond the events of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now comes Dark Force Rising , the second volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn. Ha de comprender que los medios son tan importantes como los fines. Un Jedi utiliza la Fuerza para saber y defenderse, no para atacar.

Zahn, Timothy (2011). "Endnote 13". Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition. Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0345528292.Breznican, Anthony (November 2, 2012). " Star Wars sequel author Timothy Zahn weighs in on new movie plans". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved July 21, 2016.