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Star Wars: Shadow Games
By: Maya Kaathryn BohnhoffeBook Publisher: Random House
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Reader Review: Shadow Games is Star Wars pulp fiction. But a little more successful at mimicking the genre than Coruscant Nights, another fine Reaves trilogy. This is an actual hard boiled mystery. It's not the most complex mystery but it kept me interested right up to the last page. I've always thought of Dash Rendar as a bit of a poor man's Han Solo. And he doesn't disappoint here. He's is no Han Solo. But the authors don't try to fool us into believing he is. The fact that he isn't everything Han is only serves the story better. He's killable. He's just a regular guy. I don't know if Bohnhoff kept Reaves true to the mystery genre or if Reaves kept Bohnhoff true to SW but these two authors created a well thought out little adventure. A very odd thing about the book is show business in the GFFA. From what I've gathered from multiple sources starting with ANH, is that burlesque is a large part of entertainment. And Javul Charn is basically a Lady Gaga of the GFFA. I get the impression that our concerts are still more entertaining than any in the Star Wars Universe. That said, Shadow Games is not for every SW reader but it's a tight story. Not overly complex but contains the right bit of mystery, Han Solo, so humor, action, romance and weird musical numbers. I highly recommend it.
SOME GAMES ARE PLAYED FOR LIFE OR DEATH.
Javul Charn is the most famous pop star in the galaxy—and the runaway bride of a violent lieutenant in Black Sun, the crime syndicate commanded by Prince Xizor. Or so Javul says. Soon after Dash Rendar, broke and desperate, agrees to be Javul’s bodyguard, he realizes that openness is not her strong suit—and that murder is stalking her tour. Between the discovery of dead bodies in a cargo hold and an attack by an unidentified warship, Dash and co-pilot Eaden Vrill desperately try to understand who is terrorizing Javul’s tour and why. When Han Solo suddenly joins Javul’s road show, the stakes are raised even higher. Now Dash, who has a history with Han and an even worse history with Prince Xizor, follows his instincts, his discoveries, and Javul herself—straight into a world that may be too dangerous to survive.
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
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| Release Date: 11-29-2011 | |
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| Publisher: Random House Publishing Group | Store Sales Rank: 11240 |
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Title: Star Wars: Shadow Games August 4, 2012 Shadow Games is Star Wars pulp fiction. But a little more successful at mimicking the genre than Coruscant Nights, another fine Reaves trilogy. This is an actual hard boiled mystery. It's not the most complex mystery but it kept me interested right up to the last page.
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I've always thought of Dash Rendar as a bit of a poor man's Han Solo. And he doesn't disappoint here. He's is no Han Solo. But the authors don't try to fool us into believing he is. The fact that he isn't everything Han is only serves the story better. He's killable. He's just a regular guy.
I don't know if Bohnhoff kept Reaves true to the mystery genre or if Reaves kept Bohnhoff true to SW but these two authors created a well thought out little adventure.
A very odd thing about the book is show business in the GFFA. From what I've gathered from multiple sources starting with ANH, is that burlesque is a large part of entertainment. And Javul Charn is basically a Lady Gaga of the GFFA. I get the impression that our concerts are still more entertaining than any in the Star Wars Universe.
That said, Shadow Games is not for every SW reader but it's a tight story. Not overly complex but contains the right bit of mystery, Han Solo, so humor, action, romance and weird musical numbers. I highly recommend it.
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