The room features only one other piece of furniture: a tall black cabinet, sealed tight with a maglock." (p. On that desk is a blaster, a collection of quills in a cup, a bottle of ink. In the middle, a desk whose surface is made from some Sullustian frozen in corbonite. "It's a spare, severe room - red walls lined with manacles. The descriptions of the environment and the action reminded me of the narrative of a game master describing something to his players in a role-playing game. Whether they lived or died made no difference to me, and that's a bad sign. As I read, I found myself not caring what happened to any of them. the tech genius teenager and his estranged mother, the regretful drunken ex-Imperial, the hard-as-nails bounty hunter. This book is horribly written, with a jarring present-tense narrative. Numerous other reviewers have noted the poor writing style of Chuck Wendig. This was when I realized the Disney canon is absolute garbage. "The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops - it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight."Īnd that was the moment when my eyes started bleeding.
But they haven’t reckoned on Norra and her newfound allies-her technical-genius son, a Zabrak bounty hunter, and a reprobate Imperial defector-who are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire’s oppressive reign once and for all.
What she doesn’t know is just how close the enemy is-or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be.ĭetermined to preserve the Empire’s power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summit-to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles’s urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. Meanwhile, on the planet’s surface, former rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world-war weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he’s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding. As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance-now a fledgling New Republic-presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate.
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