Some final thoughts on FotJ and Troy Denning’s Apocalypse

The Fate of the Jedi series has ostensibly been a trilogy drawn out over nine books. Lacking forward momentum, and somewhat unfocused it never managed to unite all of its cohesive parts into a unified whole. At least not until the final volume Apocalypse. This isn’t quite enough to save this series and doesn’t make [...]

SW: Ascension and some vague thoughts

I finally finished listening to the penultimate volume in the Fate of the Jedi series, Ascension by Christie Golden.  On the whole the story and pacing feels about even with the rest of the series.  How you taken that statement is entirely dependent on how you’ve felt about the series to date.  Ascension isn’t going to win [...]

Review: Conviction (SW: FotJ #7) by Aaron Allston

Conviction (Fate of the Jedi, Book 7) Aaron Allston LucasBooks, 2011 The 7th and latest volume of the Fate of the Jedi saga, Conviction, is here.  This time it’s Aaron Allston at the helm and this time…it’s more of the same.  First off let me start by saying that whoever wrote the back copy for [...]

Review: SW (FotJ) Vortex by Troy Denning [audiobook]

Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex Troy Denning, read by Marc Thompson Random House Audio (Lucasbooks/Del Rey), 2010   So whoever it is at Lucasbooks/Del Rey that decided it would be a great idea to mingle a little bit of cosmic and Lovecraftian horror into the Star Wars Universe (or horror in general given [...]

Star Wars Double Shot!

Backlash (Aaron Allston) and Allies (Christie Golden) March 2010 and May 2010 respectively LucasBooks Read by Marc Thompson The Fate of the Jedi arc rolls onward with Backlash as Luke and Ben are sidetracked from from their quest to follow Jacen’s footsteps after their encounter with Vistara Kai at Sinkhole Station in the Maw.  Luke, [...]

Review: Star Wars (FotJ #3): Abyss by Troy Denning

Star Wars (FotJ): Abyss Troy Denning, read by Marc Thompson Random House Audio, 2009 I’m am really enjoying the entire Fate of the Jedi series perhaps even  more then I enjoyed those first Star Wars I read way back in the 8th grade.  I don’t know if 8th grade me would agree.  He would likely [...]

Review: Star Wars: Omen by Christie Golden (audio)

Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Omen by Christie Goldman Read by Marc Thompson 2009, Random House Audio The first volume in the Fate of the Jedi series, Outcast, marked my first foray to the Star Wars Expanded Universe since the death of Chewbacca in R. A. Salvatores’ Vector Prime.  Outcast, and now Omen, are [...]

Review: Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (Audiobook)

Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi Book 1: Outcast Aaron Allston read by Marc Thompson Random House Audio, 2009 It’s been a while since I’ve read, let alone listened, to a Star Wars novel.  I think I stopped somewhere back around Vector Prime when I was generally frustrated with the direction of the current story.  Turns [...]