Includes exclusive chapter from forthcoming book – Outbound Flight – by Troy Denning.
Ether Denning is an alias for Zahn – or someone got a little Cut and Paste happy ;)
(This fact has been pointed out several other posters on the Message Boards I go on, so the cred should got to them)
Okay now onto what’s in the book – that’s what matters right?
Well the first thing I’m going to say is: I sure hope nothing happens to Luke anytime soon – because he’s going to have to put most of his Jedi master’s in retraining focusing on working together and making up their Bl--y minds, if they don’t pull their finger out soon and start working as a group as a whole, with or without him.
Ditto for Jacen – I’ll get to him later.
It’s nice to see a bit of Luke and Han action – we haven’t seen anything like that for a long time, Leia and Saba were a riot as well, But I would have liked to see some Leia and Mara action, Because that has never really happened before.
A few months before JK came out I said Raynar was going to be a bad arse, well it’s getting to be that way, and it’s turning out that the Dark Nest are the one’s really running the show – actually it wouldn’t surprise me if Raynar is the one running the whole show, that he’s just being playing it dumb to fool the Jedi.
Alema is one twisted sister – to say that Mara’s the one that killed Padmé. Ha, All Luke has to do is look up the year she died in, and he would know Mara had nothing to do with her death. I think Leia would have been a bit more violent to her if she had of heard of that.
At least she isn’t trying to bonk anything that moves this time around.
Jaina and Zekk are still Joiners – someone un-join them before they get too creepy, it’s got to be possible surely? At while you’re at it un-join poor Ben, he got enough on his plate.
Now before I tear into Jacen – I want everyone who’s read Destiny’s Way to think back to that little talk Kyp (of all people) had with Jaina. I’ll use a line (which is not from Star Wars BTW) to sum up what that talk was about.
“Our Job is to protect the innocent, not to punish the guilty.”
(I’ll let you Figure where I pulled that line from :p )
Now I like Jacen don’t get me wrong – But I’m not going to say that he did no wrong in UQ.
Before DN started we were all fairly dead sure, that Jaina was going to be the mother of the DN Baby. So after Joiner King came out to find things had changed, that view changed, to the other twin Jacen siring the child with Tenel Ka. Before JK came out Jacen was a long shot chance at being the Father of the DN baby.
Now I know Jacen was shocked to hear that he was a daddy, and that he had Zero time to get over that shock…Because the bugs attacked about five minutes later, and Ben’s Joiner side kicking in adding to the insanity did help thing’s much and that’s when the real bomb shell for this book came in – it’s not really the fact that Jacen hurt Ben in that fight – it’s the fact that he didn’t care that he did, that’s the problem.
What happened to Ta’a Chume after that, may have well being Justified, But that is like someone taking the law into their on hands to go after a Rapist or a Killer, instead of leaving it to the Law enforcers – you might have stopped the person, but at the cost of landing yourself in trouble, which leads to the point I made earlier on this issue – Jacen in a way had stopped doing his Job.
He is at the moment falling to the dark side… and someone needs to snap him out of it before it’s too late.
Unseen Queen is a good read and leave’s a lot of questions too be answered – I can’t wait for Swarm War, when I reckon every thing is going to hit the fan, for Jacen.
I’ll give it a 7/10.
