‘Human,’ she may not be, but there’s a sense that her struggle against deterministic forces mirrors that of the human condition.įinally, the book is not a bad read. On another, I couldn’t help but sympathize with her struggle for identity. Omad Kaeg is hard not to like he may be cocky to a fault and incredibly naïve, but his heart is in the right place, and throughout the story I couldn’t help but picturing him as the son that Han would have always wanted (at least, the son without the force baggage who gets killed by his sister.) Then there’s Dena Yos, whose internal struggle to exert a sense of free will against the determinism programmed into her as a biot creation of the Qreph brothers can’t help but solicit mixed feelings from the reader. Secondly, in spite of being a book about Luke, Leia, and Han, Denning creates and gives voice to some fascinating characters. This book thankfully avoids the latter category. There are disappointing books, and then there are disappointing books in which one of the beloved figures from the Original Trilogy bites the dust. First, nobody fundamentally important to the Star Wars universe dies. It’s been more than a month since I turned the last page in Crucible, yet I still remain unconvinced that the novel-Denning’s 13th in the Galaxy Far, Far Away-really signals the retirement of Luke, Leia, and Han.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |