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Highly enjoyable. The story is fun and full of adventure and imagination. The characters are interesting and intriguing. The development of cultures (species) and worlds attests to the bigness of the Star Wars universe and makes efforts to play in the less-explored parts of the sandpit.
Absolutely brilliant
My favorite thing about Star Wars books are listening to the audio performances. When they are well done, it is always a fun "listen". I also love the sound effects. Somehow that always enhances my enjoyment. Maybe it shouldn't, but it does....I can't help it.This one wasn't my favorite, but I still liked this...and I think the difference was made because I listened to the audio. So 3 stars.
I have good news and I have bad news.The good news is, of all the Sean Williams books I've read (The Force Unleashed, and the NJO Force Heretic trilogy), this one is the best.The bad news is that isn't saying much.A Sith, a Jedi, and a Mandalorian walk into a bar...oh, right, I'm supposed to give a summary not a joke!Through some crazy circumstances, an "eclectic" bunch of people all want the same thing. We have a Jedi Padawan, a Sith Apprentice, an Imperial spy (no, this isn't a spoiler), a dru...
Audible narrator rating: 4 starsStory rating: 3.75 starsBest part: hex droids Same old Jedi vs Sith trope. No surprise there.
I am giving this two stars only because it is a Star Wars book and I like Star Wars a lot. It's based on a video game that may very well be fun and enjoyable but the book pretty much wasn't. In the story a jedi. a sith, a mandalorian, an envoy and a smugggler have to team up to stop some killer droids. I didn't find the premise very believable. Or I should say I found it more beleivable when Captain Picard and the Klingons had to team up to stop the borg. It's more or less the same story. But th...
Sean William's "Fatal Alliance", the third novel in the Star Wars Old Republic series (although all of them are stand-alones, not connected in any way with each other other than the fact that they are set in the Star Wars universe), is a surprisingly decent action thriller that has somewhat restored my faith in the Expanded Universe series, specifically the Old Republic series-within-a-series. Based on a popular video game series that I have never played nor will I ever play, the Old Republic bo...
Sean Williams overcomes a bland cover, a generic title, and a shoddy video game premise to write what turns out to be a pretty satisfying foundation for the new line of Old Republic novels. What's more, Williams makes far more of an uneasy Sith/Jedi alliance in one novel than the entire braintrust has managed to do in six 'Fate of the Jedi' books.While Allston, Denning, and Golden (shudder) just toss some Skywalkers and Sith together for ambiguous reasons that serve the plot but ignore common se...
2.5 stars. I am not a prolific reader of Star Wars EU books so this review is coming from the perspective of a casual fan of the genre. As far as the book goes, this is not one of the better Star Wars books I have read. I would call it an okay "popcorn" book as it kept my interest for though most part but there were no real "wow" moments either. Basically, the book was okay but not quite up to the level where I would say I liked it. That said, I do need to give significant kudos to the productio...
Fairly insipid on all points--prose, portrayal of Star Wars backstory, and characters. Fairly is putting it much too fair. Williams is rote in his conventions, his narrative arc and his tone. It really hasn't anything to recommend it. Unbelievable conflict; eyebrow-quirking inanity in Jedi-Sith relations; dead-end dearth of subtlety. Da. That's sums it.
I was quite disappointed with this book. I have read very nearly every Star Wars EU book, and this was one of the worst.I wasn't too worried about it at first, because I did enjoy The Force Unleashed, another novel by the same author and also based on a video game (with the same title). Having played the game, I thought the book did a good job.Not this one, however. The writing was stilted, there was little to no description, and the ending seemed to be sort of like AI....it went on and on and o...
Much better than the previous entries in the Old Republic series. This story is not the usual simplistic morality play between hateful Sith and serene Jedi. Admittedly it does have some elements of that, but it wraps all up in more layers of moral and motivational ambiguity than is normal, so reads as a far more fresh take on that conflict than usual.The characters seemed much more well rounded (and well though-out) than in many other Star Wars novels, despite them falling quite obviously into v...
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance is so far the only star wars novel I can truly say I hate. Of all the old republic novels, heck star wars novels i have read, this one is definitely the worst by far. I haven't even read Annihilation, but i know it will be better for two reasons: First, it's written by Drew Karpyshyn, the same person who wrote Revan(which, at least, I adored on my first read). Second, there is no way it could be worse than this.THE STORY: A reviewer on this website nam...
Star Wars Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams4 – StarsAnother installment based on the MMORPG and we finally see the Mando's in action. Well, one of them at least.So at this point in the time line it hasn't been long since the sacking of Corellia. Many of it's citizens blame the Jedi and much of the senate is distrustful of them as well. Then they receive word of an auction by a Hutt. Both the Empire and the Republic are asked to send representatives to bid and are allowed to see some of what's on t...
TL;DR Review:3 stars. It was fun. Kooky, but fun.Long ReviewFatal Alliance is a tie-in/lore novel based mainly on Bioware’s MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). This is also the first Star Wars novel that I have read. I consider myself more of a casual fan who mainly enjoys the movies, comics, and games, but I wanted to give the novels a try. As I said on my review of Patrick Weekes’ The Masked Empire, I refuse to let books based on video games off the hook simply for the fact that they’re b...
It wasn't the best but certainly wasn't the worst. I really liked the characters and the story itself was intriguing. I found myself even whispering "wtf" once. Way too long though. I think 100 pages could have easily been cut, so by those last pages I felt myself rushing through it.
Unless a book really hooks me, I know I can take much too long to read. So maybe I didn’t devour Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Allliance in no time like I had expected, but at the same time I delighted in taking my sweet time to read it. I’ll cut to the chase here — if you can look beyond the faults that are so typical of novels based on video games, you will probably enjoy it. Keep reading for further thoughts, though I’m not going to go into the plot too much (if you want that information...
http://www.rantingdragon.com/fatal-al...Three and a half millennia before Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side and the rise of Palpatine’s Galactic Empire, the Republic finds itself on the brink of war with another threat: the Sith Empire. However, when a third party comes forward with a proposition neither side can refuse, things begin to heat up. Centering around a Jedi Padawan, a Sith apprentice, a disgraced commando, and an undercover operative ultimately looking out for number one, Fata...
The overall story in this book could have been great; Jedi, Sith, Empire, Mandalorian, and Republic are forced to join forces to overcome an incredibly powerful, mysterious enemy that threatens to wipe them all out. How could an author fail at telling such a compelling story? Unfortunately, this book fails on many fronts. The most obvious flaw was the writing. Aside from many grammatical errors, there were several, obvious mistakes in the book. At one point, the author identifies the species of
If you ask me, Fatal Alliance is nothing more than a fatal mistake.Needlessly long, repetitive and pointless, this novel is easily the worst of the Old Republic stories and easily one of the worst Star Wars novels I’ve read (in both the EU/Legends and the new canon).The problem is, that while the idea of teaming up some of the galaxy’s most popular sects (sith, Jedi, madalorians) against a threat that would wipe out everyone, seems like a good combination in theory, it’s a total mess once on pap...