Release Date: 07/03/13
Publisher: Arrow Books
SYNOPSIS:
Ever since Emperor Palpatine's Order 66 - which called for the execution of all Jedi - Jax Pavan is the last Knight around to fight the dark side of the Force. Together with his droid I-5, Jax has eluded Vader time and again, all the while wreaking havoc against the Empire through the underground resistance on Coruscant. But now the Rebel's leader on the city-planet has been captured, and it's up to the Last Jedi to ride again ...possibly for one final adventure.
REVIEW:
I’m a huge fan of the Star Wars Universe so when I get chance to delve into the dark times when the Jedi were in hiding and Vader was at his pinnacle, I really can’t wait to see what happens. This book by Michael and Maya hits a lot of my expectations with a cracking lead character, some wonderful illusion and brings to the fore a sleight of hand so much so that you’re left wondering how its going to continue so much so that when I hit about half way through and was left for a while in the doldrums until it picked up again a little later, almost as if the story had been expanded from a very sharp novella to reach novel length.
This of course left me feeling a little cheated and to be blunt I’d rather have cut out a lot of the unnecessary bumf that was added purely so I could keep to the meat of the tale. That said it is still a cracking story but for me, the editing could have been tighter to keep the reader on the edge of their seats.
Release Date: 01/12/11
SYNOPSIS:
Stranded on Tatooine with a broken-down hyperdrive, Dash Rendar and crew--his Nautolan copilot, Eaden Vrill, and a droid named Leebo--have to find a way to raise credits. It comes in the lovely form of Javul Charn, a multi-talented human holostar being stalked by an over-zealous fan. She needs bodyguards to protect her during her tour along the Corellian Run; Dash needs credits. It's a perfect match...until things begin to go wrong--seriously and dangerously wrong. By the time Dash realizes that the threat to Javul is not what it seems, he's in up to his neck in a conspiracy that goes much deeper than anything he would have signed up for. Even with the help of his hated rival--Han Solo--will Dash be able to protect this spoiled entertainer, all the while being reminded that he couldn't protect his own family?
REVIEW:
As a regular reader of the Star Wars universe titles by Arrow, I always look forward to something that is a little different to a lot of the other books out there. So I was looking forward for quite some time for this title (whose name was chosen by the fans) to be released as it takes a time in the universes history that is little known and allows the author a lot of freedom.
There’s moments of great peril and of course a kick ass story that whilst it may not affect the universe as a whole in much the same way that the New Hope plot does it’s one that will have the reader hanging onto the various plotlines as well as outcomes as choices and personal conflict keep the reader guessing. It has great prose, the authors know what they’re doing and it blends together seamlessly so that the finished book is something that the reader will enjoy picking up and reading until the final page. Great stuff.
