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Title: The Ballantine editor was drunk when this one went to print.
Review: Chalk up another author as being a flop in Star Wars. It was horrible. Allen made the twins, Anakin, Chewie, and the droids sub-human. All the characters thought the same, and the action was not the least bit engaging. I quit after the first ten chapters. While the concept for this trilogy is good, the author Ballantine got to do it does not live up to it and is not worthy of Star Wars. Nor is he true to the characters. Han would never think of getting rid of the Falcon. The droids would never be so formal with Lando, and Mara Jade wouldn't have such an edge to her. Allen joins the list of authors (Hambly, Anderson, Kube-McDowell, Rusch) who don't have what it takes to write Star Wars. Feel safe ignoring it.
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