Shadows of the Empire by Steve PerryMy rating: 6 of 10 stars
Pages : 385
Year : 1996
Genre : Space Opera
Series : Star Wars
What a nice little character Xizor. Oh well.
This includes a bit of spoilers but it's predictable since this book is set between the Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi. So you already know what is going to happen. Why did Luke "gave away" the droids, why Leia is a bounty hunter, why chewie is chain why Lando is a troop of the Hut and why Skywalker is a "badass".
This is a story that explains a bit on why it took them some time to save Han (1 year I think) but at the same time provided a new character Prince Xizor and his machinations to become the Emperor servant while the same time eliminate Darth Vader as number 2.
And to be honest that's the most interesting part of the story. Everything else was boring, from Leia to Chewie to Lando a Han Dash. this last character is the copy of hand, same traits, same way of speaking. If the writer swap the name nobody would have figure it out. Interestingly he puts Leia saying, do all people like Han behave like that? Is there a school? lol it's quite funny.
So why 6.5 Stars? Round to 7. Well because of Xisor and the last one hundreds pages that were good. Everything else was a bit boring. Again, the best parts were Xisor. Darth Vader & Emperor were also nice, but apart from that , no.
IT was nice to see Leia a bit different from high and mighty she looks like in empire strikes back and even doing stuff out of her character.
I had higher expectations for Xisor, but unfortunately we all know how it would end, after all in return of Jedi there wasn't any mention of it.
Another thing that upsets me is Luke. Everyone wants to convert , well Darth wants but I don't see the power he sees in him. He isn't powerful at all. I think Darth is kidding himself. He just don't want to kill his son. If they had killed Luke when they had the change, the Empire would survive. It's sometimes this badly written stuff that upsets me. Face palm situation. If the Emperor forseen everything, why didn't he forseen that.
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