Where the fuck are the pictures: The Thrawn Duology
These are the final Star Wars books published by Bantam Books. These are the books that closed almost all the plotlines from the previous books. A very fitting end to a great run.
The story starts out twenty years after the A new hope, and ten years after the Thrawn Trilogy. Admiral Pellaeon is the supreme commander of the Empire's fleet. Not that it matters anymore. The empire is horrible shape. Virtually every world they used to control is now part of the New Republic. Pellaeon knows what has to be done, make peace with the New Republic.
But the New Republic can not make peace with itself. There is infighting in the senate, and corruption is rampant. The senate if full of power hungry oppurtunists, and no one can work together. Everything is made worse by the supposed return of grand Admiral Thrawn, who is actually a fake, a skam artist put in place by Moss Difra in an attempt to gain control over the Empire.
were these books as good as The Thrawn Trilogy? I don't think so. I felt that these books were trying to hard to be the original Thrawn books. Sure we got the end of the empire, Luke and Mara Jade getting engaged, and finally learning about Thrawns past, but I think both books were lacking in one major way. Too many plots. there was one that could have been easily left out. It was like Zahn was trying to stretch one book into two.
There were still many things I loved about them. Pellaeon was extremely well written and relatable. The scene where he found out about Thrawn coming back was heartbreaking. The Corran Horn-Wedge Antilles storyline was also very good, but I'm a big fan of both those characters so I may be biased a little. The Luke and Mara parts were good, especially near the end when they make a surprising discovery.
Overall I enjoyed these books. I felt these books were the end of an era. (I'll save my rant on the New Jedi Order for later.)
four out of five stars.
