Review

Have you read the latest installment of Star Wars? Wow! Words are hard to describe what I felt in that book. I was frustrated, scared crapless, angry, and at one point wanted to throw the book against the wall and vow to never read a SW book again. Why?

It’s just that good. Believe it or not, this was the sixth volume in the mega series entitled Legacy of the Jedi. It keeps getting better as time goes along. Unfortunately I have to wait until November for the next novel to come out.

Until then, I’m going to dream of Luke kicking the crap out of his nephew!

I guess New Voyages didn’t expect to get blasted with so many people wanting to watch their episode. Man, were they mistaken. We’ve been without Trek for a while now and people are chomping at the bit. I imagine with the news that the new movie is going to be set in the TOS timeframe, more and more are going to be heading over to New Voyages.

Good for them. They deserve it! Yeah, the acting can be corny but so was the original cast. The CGI is amazing! This was the way Trek was meant to be watched. I love the fact that I can burn these to DVD and watch them on my bigscreen!

Here’s a preview of the episode that most of us are still waiting to see. Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon.

The fifth installment in the Legacy of the Force series, Sacrifice knocks your socks off. It doesn’t pull any punches or spare your feelings.

Unlike Star Trek where main characters hardly ever die, Star Wars authors seem to take killing off main characters as an art form. Remember Chewbacca having a frackin moon fall on him during the Vong Wars? How about little Anakin biting it to save his teammate’s bacon? Jacen tortured.

In steps Sacrifice and true to its title, somebody dies so Jacen can ascend to the Dark throne. Remember little Jacen from the Young Jedi Academy books. That little quiet kid has become a real jerk. He continues to look at his grandfather’s flawed decisions and believes himself better but as the reader, we get to see that’s just not so.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the series but I also love the characters. They’re the embodiment of Star Wars. Who’s going to replace these characters if we keep killing them off and the younger generation gets darker? So far, the young ones haven’t really been popping out any kids and it doesn’t seem to be going to happen any time soon either. So where is it going?

Obviously, I’m going to read the next novel. Who wouldn’t? Luke is torqued and someone is going to feel his wrath.