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I don’t know if I’m just burnt out on Star Wars or if this one was just bad but I could barely focus on it.
Much better than the first book in this trilogy. Tahiri's arc is interesting and the search for Zonama Sekot heats up in this one. Unfortunately the series is starting to feel very played out. 3 books to go!
Tired of the Yuuzhan Vong? You picked the right book!Luke and gang still search for Zonoma Sekot, this time on the Chiss homeworld of Csilla and in a big library. Han and Leia and company flit to Bakura to recreate Tyer's "Truce at Bakura". And Nom Anor continues to be a heretic.NOTE: Based on audiobook and novel.Oh, novel, why do you do this to me? Even though I didn't like reading you the first time, I didn't start listening to the audiobook thinking, "I am going to hate this book, hee hee hee...
A book of three halves...(!)The Ssi-Ruuk story was surprisingly enjoyable - though the revelation near the end had predictable inevitableness.The Chiss story was fun, though the Zonama Sekot story (the reason for being with the Chiss) is rather tedious - rather like 'Gaia' in the later 'Foundation' books.Nom Amor's religion building is fun to watch - religions co-opted for political purposes, and with the potential to leave politics behind and forgotten....
Not one of my favorites. Sort of slow and a significant part of th book takes place in a library.
Interesting turn at the end. One more book in this sub series and back to normal writing not long sections with no chapters and randomly switching POV.
greed ,it's the only justification for such atrocity
For 2021, I decided to reread Del Rey’s first attempt at a multi-author book series in the Star Wars universe: The New Jedi Order, which was published between 1999 and 2003. This shakes out to 19 novels, two eBook novellas, three short stories, and a tangentially-related prequel era novel.This week’s focus: the second book in the Force Heretic trilogy, Force Heretic: Refugee by Sean Williams and Shane Dix.SOME HISTORY:Sean Williams and Shane Dix didn’t expect a lot of media attention for their S...
Del Rey started the New Jedi Order to get away from people trying to overthrow the New Republic and blame the good guys. So in this book, we get a plot about people trying to overthrow the New Republic and blame the good guys. What?Danni and Jacen have no chemistry together. Why are they making this a thing? The only good thing I have to say about this book is that Tahiri's struggle with Riina is a welcome addition to the series and the EU as a whole. Also, I only have three books left. "Thank t...
The sixteenth book in the New Jedi Order series, "Refugee", continues the story started in Sean Williams and Shane Dix's first book of their Force Heretic trilogy. That book, "Remnant", had been decent but plodding. Unfortunately, "Refugee" isn't much better.Searching the Unknown Regions for the legendary wandering planet, Zonoma Sekot, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, along with their team, recruit the help of the Chiss. They have been allowed to search the vast archives of ancient texts for any r...
2.5 stars
This book starts off rather promising. Other than giving us a lengthy exposition, it throws us into the action right away: Luke and co. are hunted by a species they visited in peace including a creature that could have come right out of the movie Alien. Meanwhile, Leia and co. are attacked by a bunch of battle droids on their trip down memory lane. Unfortunately, as soon as the first action is settled, the novel becomes a chore for a while with overly lengthy sequences, lack of action, and lack
Original review: https://myshelfbooks.wordpress.com/20...Little by little I’m reading this saga… Almost 15 years enjoying that far galaxy during its conflic against the Yuuzhan Vong. My intention was to read it faster, but publishers in Spain had another opinion, so I had to wait until my English was good enough to tackle that Universe in its original language. The New Jedi Order is the perfect example of why the Expanded Universe was so great and why it shouldn’t have been dismissed so promptly...
Honestly, this was probably the most pointless book within the New Jedi Order so far. It's great that the authors wanted to bring back some characters from books past (Truce at Bakura) and give the readers an idea of what has happened to those characters and planets since the Yuuzhan Vong War started, but the events in Force Remnant II: Refugee are ultimately irrelevant to the overall NJO story. As with many reviews, this one does contain spoilers. My biggest complaint with the book is the lack
I struggled, really struggled, to get into Remnant (the one before this), and I struggled even more with Refugee -- I just don't like the authors' writing style. It's dry, over-detailed and plain. Boring, in other words.I'm not keen on the concepts in this trilogy either. One is too predictable (The government of this backwater planet is corrupt! We know. The same happened in the last one. Yes, but the twist this time is; the government is doubly corrupt! ...Right. And the Yuuzhan Vong are behin...
What few books I've rated 1 star all have in common that I've literally lost sleep over how much I hated them.This is a stupid book written and vetted by stupid people.The climax literally would not have happened had Jaina remembered that she has the Force and can easily disarm a person. Jaina, in fact, really took the brunt of the damage when the authora decided to start waving their stupid stick around."Oh no, we[4 people]'re being menaced by one guy with a blaster and the one other guy he's w...
This one felt like a bottle episode, in that the main plot didn’t progress much at all. Instead, the main focus is on a single planet’s political chaos, and our hero’s are deeply entrenched. This one would be more exciting if I recently had read The Truce at Bakura, as it felt like a straight sequel to that rather than the next chapter in the Yuuzhan Vong epic. Hoping the Bakura plot is done and we can focus back towards defeating the real enemy soon.
The three storylines continue in the second book of the trilogy, using the same tricks as the first one – quick scenes as things bounce from one story to another in an effort to keep things interesting when they’re slow. The search for Sekot by Luke, Mara and Jacen was particularly plodding and frankly could have just been chopped in half. Adding a token kidnapping attempt was just a plot-stretcher.The Leia and Han storyline also quickly grew boring thanks to the (far too) extended description o...
Sometimes I’m in the mood for space battles and lightsaber duels. Thus, I took this book on a trip where I knew I’d have plenty of reading time and definitely time enough to make progress in my quest to read all the Star Wars books.I feel like the middle dragged a bit much with scenes of politics and library research, but the payoff was good in the end. I did appreciate this had it’s own story to tell even as it was book two in a trilogy that is followed by the final book in the New Jedi Order s...
Australian authors Sean Williams and Shane Dix offer up another solid entry in the New Jedi Order series. This one finds Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, Jacen Solo and the rest of their entourage traveling to the homeworld of the Chiss in the Unknown Regions. They hope to solicit the aid of the Chiss in their quest for the living planet Zonama Sekot. But there are conspiracies roiling under the surface on the capital of Csilla that may foil their efforts - and threaten their lives. Meanwhile, Han,...