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Rive Caedo

It looks like the Coruscant Nights series is somewhat unique in the fact that the first and last novels appear to have gotten better reviews than the middle one. It's somewhat unusual for a trilogy to have a strong finish and a slumping middle (the prequels could be argued to be this I suppose - if one liked Episode I but not II (and I have yet to meet someone who enjoyed I or II but not III)).

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Xander Vos

I agree, the last one is really quite good. But I didn't dislike the second one, it was just a strange style. No doubt the series is trying to mark the transition to the OT, and it was interesting, but yeah.
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Xander Vos

Well I finished it, and without ruining it:

Apart from a few canonical errors which I find really grating (primarily timing issues) this was another great read, but one I'd be more likely to pick up again. The introduction of a rogue Force User of unimaginable power definately had the feel of TFU, and it made for an interesting story.

Hard not to discuss the book much without giving away the ending, but it does leave it open for more books, and someone picking up SW books out of the blue would almost assume Shadows of the Empire - written by the same person - would continue the story, so I hope there'll be some sort of link.

8.5/10
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Xander Vos

Just had a bit of a shopping spree to celebrate end of exams. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a paperback Death Troopers sitting in my bookstore, because I didn't think it was out for a while. I think it's like Order 66 though, with the UK/Australia getting paperbacks much earlier. It's very thin though!

Also picked up Imperial Commando: 501st, because I want to see the story out to the end, which, sadly, will be in the next book because Traviss can't tolerate the way the SW people are mucking around with canon, and I must say I agree with her.

Finally cracked and decided to buy the first book in the Fate of the Jedi series, when I'd promised myself I'd hold out until they started coming out in paperback. Oh well. I haven't ruined the series for myself at all, so I really hope one of the Big Three dies, or else it's just another wasted series.
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Xander Vos

Seriously though. It's like 230 pages. It's tiny. I saw it and was like, surely this isn't the entire book, because the hardcover looks so much longer. Especially next to Imperial 'Epically pointlessly long' Commando.

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