Diving into ANOTHER George R.R. Martin novel was too much for my senses so I placed a bookmark in it and will leave it for an extended period of time. Although it bugs me that I haven’t finished it.
So what should I move onto after I get tired of a book? The ever faithful Star Wars series! However, I first read The End of Eternity which was a super good book. Thanks to Eric for recommending it.
Anyhow…let’s recap the whole Star Wars novel phenomenon – particularly The New Jedi Order series.
Star Wars novels (or the ones that came out in the past decade) are based after Return of the Jedi. So it’s just a continuation of the people you all love in various situations vs. the Empire (or what’s left of it) or random warlords that come around to wreak havoc.
So, someone had the brilliant idea to make this massive 25 book storyline that involved a new alien species that comes into attack our friends in the galaxy. A bunch of authors got in on this and contributed to the 25 book monstrosity.
Around the time this started (circa 2000), I finally gave up on the Star Wars novels because that was all I was reading. I moved onto other readings. Off and on, I’ve come back to Star Wars but have been hesistant to tackle The New Jedi Order. I had read Books 1 and 2 in the series and found them very boring.
So, what did I do? Well, I re-read book 1 which was still kind of boring but then skipped to Book 4.
Hero’s Trial is a great novel focussing in on our favourite nerf-herder Han Solo. It follows Han on a solo mission as well as a quest to find his soul after events that happened in Book 1 of the series (which are insanely rocking events). I’m sure if you really wanted to find out what happens, you can just google VECTOR PRIME. That’s the book’s name.
Anyhow, I enjoyed the book immensely and it did a really interesting job of bringing in characters that you don’t usually see – like Bossk the bounty hunter. I am hoping the rest of the series is more like this and I now have renewed strength in reading the entire series.
So, if you like a good Star Wars novel, take a look at Hero’s Trial for a good Han Solo story. The book stands alone well as you don’t really need to know what happened before other than the fact that there is a new enemy on the frontlines.