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Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill
By: Aaron Allston , Ted HugheseBook Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Random House Publishing Group
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Reader Review: I enjoyed the craftsmanship. That's still there. I can appreciate the more somber tone. Love reading about someone who is a casualty of the YV war. I like that direction. But I found the book rather joyless and a bit information laden. It's not helping that I never get a feel for the villain. Therefore I feel no real urgency to catch him. I'm more caught up in the characters than the plot. Allston's other Wraith books had more fun in them. It's still stronger material than Scourge, Apocalypse, Revan and Shadow Games. It's just not as giddy as I was hoping for. In the end I'm wondering if it is "commercial" enough to entice Del Rey to have him write more about the Wraiths. It feels like a more personal novel but I think it's slightly less accessible than the first 3 Wraith books. It is interesting the difference between a Wraith book written in the 1990's and one written today. This is a darker era and it's reflected in the writing. I can appreciate that. I just felt a little cluttered with cast when I wouldn't have minded a smaller team and more character stuff.
The intrepid spies, pilots, and sharpshooters of Wraith Squadron are back in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which transpires just after the events of the Fate of the Jedi series!
Three decades have passed since Wraith Squadron carried out its last mission. Taking on the most dangerous and daring operations, the rogues and misfits of the elite X-Wing unit became legends of the Rebellion and the Second Galactic Civil War, before breaking up and going their separate ways. Now their singular skills are back in vital demand—for a tailor-made Wraith Squadron mission.
A powerful general in the Galactic Alliance Army, once renowned for his valor, is suspected of participating in the infamous Lecersen Conspiracy, which nearly toppled the Alliance back into the merciless hands of the Empire. With orders to expose and apprehend the traitor—and license to do so by any and all means—the Wraiths will become thieves, pirates, impostors, forgers . . . and targets, as they put their guts, their guns, and their riskiest game plan to the test against the most lethal of adversaries.
“A rare entry point for newbies to the Star Wars expanded universe.” —Kirkus Reviews
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and more than half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
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| Title of eBook: Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill | |
| Release Date: 08-07-2012 | |
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Not what I was expecting
August 25, 2012
Reviewer: A reader from VICTORIA, BC CAN
I enjoyed the craftsmanship. That's still there. I can appreciate the more somber tone. Love reading about someone who is a casualty of the YV war. I like that direction. But I found the book rather joyless and a bit information laden. It's not helping that I never get a feel for the villain. Therefore I feel no real urgency to catch him. I'm more caught up in the characters than the plot. Allston's other Wraith books had more fun in them. It's still stronger material than Scourge, Apocalypse, Revan and Shadow Games. It's just not as giddy as I was hoping for.
In the end I'm wondering if it is "commercial" enough to entice Del Rey to have him write more about the Wraiths. It feels like a more personal novel but I think it's slightly less accessible than the first 3 Wraith books.
It is interesting the difference between a Wraith book written in the 1990's and one written today. This is a darker era and it's reflected in the writing. I can appreciate that. I just felt a little cluttered with cast when I wouldn't have minded a smaller team and more character stuff.
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