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Loading... Darth Maul: Shadow Hunterby Michael ReavesSeries: Star Wars (32.5 BBY), Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire era (32.5 BBY)LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A better read than some Star Wars novels, but not anything I'd call a must read. I was interested in reading on just to figure out how the book's central conflict could be resolved without conflicting with what we know from the movies. The plot was well-done and it moved quickly without too much sacrifice of character development. 305/305 The story proceeds the first movie, The Phantom Menace where Darth Sidious plans to overtake the Jedi Order. But the plans for the blockade of Naboo have been stolen and Darth Sidious suspects a traitor. Now Darth Sidious' apprentice Darth Maul is sent to track and kill Lorn Pavan who is in possession of the plans. My favorite character is Darsha Assant who gets caught in between the chase with Darth Maul and Lorn Pavan. She is a jedi apprentice who fails her mission and finds herself being chased by Darth Maul. On her journey she encounters many enemies she must face and her skills improve drastically from her first battle to her last. As she encounters different situations she becomes more in touch with the force. I didn't like how the plot was just straightforward. It was just an ordinary plot, but the ending was a little suprising even though I've seen the movie. I'd recommend this book to Star Wars fans and people who want to know the story proceeding the Phantom Menace. no reviews | add a review
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The plot? Insidiously evil Darth Sidious is poised to launch the Naboo trade blockade featured in The Phantom Menace. But one of his alien henchmen has sneaked away to betray this scheme and must die. So must the traitor's contacts, smalltime crook Lorn Pavan and his uppity droid, I-Five. Likewise Darsha Assant, the female Jedi Knight apprentice who gets entangled with Pavan through either mind-boggling coincidence or the mysterious ways of the Force.
Michael Reaves makes a reasonably slick job of all this nonsense and is not afraid of clichés. Plenty of characters have wooden lines like "I've got a bad feeling about this," and "Too many questions, and not enough answers." Meanwhile in the Jedi council, Yoda makes characteristic remarks: "A good choice he would be... No accident this was."
Unfortunately, the well-known story line of The Phantom Menace defuses suspense in Shadow Hunter. That trade blockade has to happen despite the good folks' doomed heroics, and horrible Darth Maul (already far more powerful and deadly than the puny opposition he faces here) is fated to win out. This novel is for dedicated fans only. --David Langford
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Given that this book leads into the events of The Phantom Menace, the final outcome is assured. The story is pretty entertaining, though, amounting essentially to one long chase scene with plenty of action and a couple of side stories thrown in (Pavan's animosity toward the Jedi; Obi-Wan Kenobi skirting around the edges and nearly learning of Darth Maul's existence). Darth Maul in the film had a lot of promise as a villain that obviously wasn't realized, but ample evidence of his badassery can be found here.
Now, all that being said...this was my second reading of this novel, and I found as I went through it that I had only the vaguest recollection of reading it the first time around. As entertaining as it is, it's eminently forgettable, with no particularly memorable characters or events. I felt like Pavan and Assant were a hollow attempt at recreating the dynamic between Han and Leia in the original trilogy and some of the better novels. But I suppose the real point of this book is for Darth Maul to chop off some heads, and I can't give it any less than an A+ in that regard. (