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Before the Storm (Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis, Book 1)
written by Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell
Studio : Random House Audio
by Random House Audio
Release Date : 1996-03-01
Publisher : Random House Audio
Released : 1996-03-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 2
EAN : 9780553474220
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 86 reviews)
Our Price : $16.99
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It is a time of tranquility for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. But the peace is short-lived. A restless Luke must journey to his mother's homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quest to find her people. An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive power. And Leia must face down the ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war that could shatter the fragile unity of the New Republic. |
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Among the worst of the Star Wars books |
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Even die-hard Star Wars fans would not enjoy this book. As many other reviewers have already pointed out, it's boring! Practically nothing happens. A new and malevolent alien species appears, but there's no intrigue involved, no battles, and little suspense. Meanwhile Lando and Luke go off on their own missions that never develop into anything even mildly interesting. Everyone acts so out of character and there's so little plot that it gets frustrating to continue. Just avoid this whole series altogether. Somehow I stuck it out in spite of the boredom, but the conclusion of the trilogy did nothing to change my disappointment. Choose another Star Wars book to read; it's almost guaranteed to be better than this one. |
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Good satr wars book but drawn out |
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I like descriptions of the vehicles. Some new ones that I never heard of. I like hearing and reading about stuff I never saw in the movies. Some nice new characters too, Like Genaral A'baht and Kiles L'toth.There were also main characters from the the original Star Wars movies. I like when the characters are communicating by radio, Reminds me of the Star Wars movies. Very classic. I sometimes can hear the Star Wars Music playing in my head while I read this book. I would like to read some other Star Wars books in the future. This one wasn't bad at all. Like I said i like reading about new People and Vehicles from Star Wars. Not a bad book overall, Some of the Chapters were a little long. |
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These books made me mad... |
I love Star Wars and pretty much anything related to them. I can stand the unusual circumstances that our characters go through. I put up with the eternal Empire problems that plagued a bunch of the books in that era. I live through the silly plots and junk that are typical of sci-fi. But I can't stand taking Star Wars and pretty much changing everything Star Wars about it. These books might have been good had they not starred Han, Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewie. However, this is not the case.
To sum up, the New Republic is getting pretty used to being at peace until the Yevetha (think: pre-Vong) come blazing a trail, hacking people up because they just like to. Leia runs around touting "Peace, peace, peace!" like a hippie, Han and Chewie pretty much do nothing of consequence, Lando is off trying to find a fleet of ships, and Luke, well, he hasn't done IT in a while, so when he meets this lady...well, let's just say it's a good thing the books don't center on THAT relationship.
When I finally read these books, I had already learned that Padme was Luke and Leia's mom so the fact that this woman tromps up to Luke and says, "Your mother is one of us" kinda ticked me off. But this is forgivable given Luke and Leia don't actually know their mom. What is not forgiveable is that Luke decides, "Hey, finding my mom is way more important than saving the galaxy like I've been doing the last twelve books and this woman is hot and single, so let's go!" What happened to Luke here? And how did he become the super-Jedi that he is portrayed in here? Rebuilding his dad's sanctuary? Why would Luke even choose Vader's sanctuary given that it is probably filled with a Dark Side presence?
Leia is a complete snob. She is nothing like the fiesty princess we fell in love with in A New Hope. Han is the incompetent daddy. And Lando is off finding these ships...why?
Bad, just plain bad! If Jedi Trial had never come out, these books would have been the worst in the series. As it is, they tie. If you buy to complete your Star Wars set, first off, buy used paperbacks, and second, read at your own risk. |
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There is a great disturbance in the Force. |
This trilogy is probably THE worst in the ENTIRE SW series (possibly even worse than TPM). Do yourself a favor, avoid this trilogy. You will thank those of us who warned you. Probably the worst turn in the trilogy (and probably the one that angered me the most, because it just seemed so cliché and not completely thought out) was finding out why Luke was dragged all over the galaxy: because his guide wanted to find out if she could trust Jedi. So, she based whether or not she could trust him on how he reacted to her lie (the lie that she knew ANYTHING about Padme, which was nothing).
And really, how many times are we going to have another Empire, or another form of the Yevetha or Yuuzhan Vong? Having yet ANOTHER form of the same old thing has really gotten tired. Yes, that's a word I would use for this trilogy: tired, with a healthy helping of not-thought-out. |
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What in the world.... |
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Ok I gave this book there stars for effort. there were some good parts to the story, but not many. The book is far to slow and makes no since to me. Luke is off trying to find his mother who has some force talent called the "white current", that really makes no since to me, seeing that im relatively new to the star wars universe beyond the movies, I was under the impression that Padme had no talent whatsoever with the force, not to mention, they have luke's mother being from a planet i have never heard off before, padme was from naboo. the author did a horrible job with luke and leia both, Han was done alright but he is not in it much, same with chewie, in fact he sends chewie back to his home planet in the first few moments of the book. he did ackbar decently not great. and characters like Wedge Antilles, were just thrown in there for what reason I dont know, he didnt have any part in the story but the one time he was mention. so all in all, 3 stars for effort 1 for the actually story. If I was you i would just skip this triliogy as I dont see and revelance to the rest of the star wars story line and this triliogy will just confuse you. |
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