This series is good but not as good as the corellian trilogy. I couldnt put that book down, this series of black fleet crisis doesnt have me as interested
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Great product, good price too
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I needed it to replace the copy I had stolen when I was back in high school. Interesting story with the Black Fleet crisis, but the three book set seemed to take awhile getting everything set up for the story
loved the condition, not as good as other sw novels, kind of leaves you hanging as compared to other sw books. the format is a little different too, you almost get bored with one storyline after a while.
I bought this book for one of my friends' children who collectors everything Star Wars. I know he will enjoy it very much.
Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis Shield of Lies Shield of Lies is the second book of a three book arch. It was written in September of 1996 by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It was released in softcover format by Bantam Spectra books. Author Kube-McDowell made two disastrous mistakes in writing this book. The first was the narrative style he chose for writing it, and the second was the specific story elements he spent most of his time focusing on. In "Shield of Lies", he decides to change his format to very long individual chapters that are almost the length of mini-novellas. The average chapter length is about 40-50 pages. This is incredibly tedious reading if the reader is not interested in the particular subplot being covered. Perhaps if Kube-McDowell had focused on more compelling elements of this trilogy, the long chapters would not have been so troublesome. Unfortunately, the bulk of the time spent in this book is on two of the most inconsequential and tedious storylines in the history of the Star Wars Universe: Lando Calrissian's exploration of something called the Teljkon Vagabond, and Luke's hermit-like existence and search for his mother. Lando's 'adventure' involves Lobot (who you might remember from "Empire Strikes Back"), C-3PO, and R2-D2 and consists of nothing more than the four of them wandering around a long, meandering labyrinth. It's practically impossible to visualize what they are doing and even if the reader starts to grasp it, it doesn't seem like anything of any consequence is being done. The other subplot, Luke's hermit-like state and search for his mother, has been rendered totally irrelevant by the Episode I movie and by all the novels that followed Black Fleet Crisis. Luke seems to be in some sort of mental state while in search of his new purpose in life and gets drawn into a quest to search for a clan of nomads where his mother might be. These nomads use some force called the 'White Current' which is simply a euphemism for the Force, itself, and, at no point, does Luke even come close to finding his mother or what happened to her. Based on Episode I, though, we're pretty sure she's not apart of this group. Both subplots are monumentally boring and made even worse by the fact that the reader has no reason to care about either one. Again. I as a true fanboy was not happy. I read this book but only read it if you want to read all the EU books. Latsyrhc Tamarack CollectiblesRead full review
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