Assault At Selonia

Review by: Toben

"Assault at Selonia" is the second book in the "Corellian Trilogy". It is better than "Ambush at Corellia", but still suffers a few problems.
The book starts with Han Solo in jail. He's being held by Thrackan Sal-solo, his evil cousin. Thrackan is actually well handeled, and believable as a villain, which rare with an evil relative.
Princess Leia Organa Solo is being held captive, too, in the center of Corellia's capital.
The book focuses largely on their attempts to escape, and fix the revolution that has started. There are also bits about Han and Leia's kids, who have fled the area with Chewbacca. More on those later.
The book is good overall, with a few downsides. First off, and most personally annoying, is that the show more book uses lots of dialect. You know, the "O'curse I'v dun wut ye esked m'tu" sort of stuff. Han spends most of the book with a Selonian (an alien race native to the Corellian system) who speaks poor basic (english). We learn that Han also speaks Selonian, but (you guessed it!) with a terrible accent. Ugh. This book (and the first in the series) is filled with typos. Allen uses the wrong names, skips letter, and makes other mistakes. It looks very sloppy, and is quite distracting. I don't like how the Solo children are handled. They are a bit too two-dimensional for my tastes, and I don't think kids should be quite so skilled with the force. Also, their sections seem odd and somewhat disconnected. They mostly serve to recap what has happened in previous chapters. If you have not read "The Thrawn Trilogy" and "Truce at Bakura", you may feel a bit lost in this book. Finally, ignore the back cover of the book (and the first one, and really, any Star Wars book) completely. It contains MAJOR spoilers for the end, and is in many cases wrong. Whoever wrote the back cover should be fired. Overall, this book is a fun read, and worth picking up. show less

Not a ton going on. A bunch of exposition and some action sequences but little character development. Still fit the bill for a easy read and fun to revisit after reading it as a kid.

Like many good "middle of the trilogy" stories, this one begins to gather the threads of the story together, creates new conflict and leaves one anxious to get to the end. I'm enjoying seeing Han & Leia's children, though mostly this book has a lot of action and not a lot of character development.

Jun11:

Characters: As mentioned before, it's who you think it is and it works well. Actually, I think the biggest disservice is that there is no bad guy to speak of. No real driving antagonist.

Plot: Well, he focuses less on the big picture and more about groups of people escaping things. Really though, that works.

Style: Still engaging. But just seems to be a string of loosely coordinated adventures.

Interesting developments in this installment.

Some of the first books I'd read as a kid. I wonder if they would be so great if I read them now???

Encerrado en una celda del planeta Corellia, Han Solo se encuentra a merced de su diabólico primo, Thrackan Sal-Solo. Thrackan planea restaurar el sistema imperial y hacerse con el poder absoluto…, cueste lo que cueste. Han tiene una posibilidad de detenerle. Pero para conseguirlo debe dar la espalda a su primo humano y unir sus fuerzas a las de una alienígena. Dracmus fue arrestada porque era una de las lideres de una conspiración contra la corrupta Liga Humana. Ahora ella y Han intentarán una osada fuga de Selonia para tratar de advertir a tiempo a Leia, Luke Skywalker y Lando del plan de Thrackan. Pero ¿puede confiar Han en que la alienígena mantendrá su palabra?
Mientras tanto, otras preguntas amenazan a la Nueva show more República… y las vidas de millones de seres inteligentes. ¿Quién está detrás del letal plan para hacer estallar las estrellas? ¿Por qué alguien intenta adueñarse de los poderosos repulsores planetarios de Corellia? ¿Y cuál es el secreto oculto detrás de la misteriosa Estación Centralia, un antiguo mundo artificial que ha cobrado vida tan repentina como inexplicablemente? show less