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Title: Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War, Book 1) by George Lucas ISBN: 0-553-57285-7 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.99 (70 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Bother....
Comment: I seriously enjoyed the movie "Willow", which this book (and the other two in the series) are a "continuation" of. I've wanted to read these books for a while, because the movie *sorta* left me with a question or two. All this series did was CONFUSE me. I'm an avid fantasy reader, so it's not like these are out of my genre, but the way the books are written, the "explaination" of how the "magic" works, even the events in the book, are so boring and confusing that after I forced my way through this book I had no desire to read the second. It took me a year and major desparation for something to read before I picked up #2. Two and a half years after I forced my way through 2, I finally read 3. Wasted time. I enjoyed the side panel of my cereal box more than this series. There was serious potential after the awesome movie, but they missed the mark by a mile with this series.
Rating: 1
Summary: Wherefore Art Thou, Willow?
Comment: While not the best fantasy movie of all time, Willow had its charm, not in the least of which were its senses of hope, wonder and humor.
Well don't come into here looking for any of that because it's gone; stripped away to make room for dark, brooding, and hugely convoluted.
Since it occurs in the prologue, it's no great spoiler to tell you that just about every character you knew and loved from the film is killed off in the first twenty pages or so, leaving you with a core cast of Willow and the inexplicably French Brownies, and even they are rendered nigh unrecognizable. The void is 'filled'-and I use that term as loosely as possible- with a dense soldier, a tomboy Princess, a zombie warrioress and, well, another dense soldier. Are we entertained yet?
Adding insult to injury, the story itself is a confusing, muddled mess so what should be a tense battle scene or a poignant moment is rendered unreadable. Claremont has a handful of favorite description nouns, which becomes readily apparent the fifth or so time someones says or does something with asperity, until you're rolling your eyes so often concerend parties will ask whether or not you're having a stroke. The worst of it is, the few times we do get any insight into what happened to other people between the prologue and the present things are presented so vaguely you're still none the wiser. Did Willow's son somehow get turned into a hellhound? Does Willow kill him? Is it the same hellhound that appears at the start of the book? I have no idea and I read the friggin' thing!
The dragon is the only piece of entertainment you'll find because he's the only one with any heart or humor to him, but even that was short lived as the author very kindly takes him away from us after a few, all-to-brief scenes. The solitary other plus the book has going for it is that it's so unlike the film in every way that it's unlikely to taint your feelings for it. A few of the characters have some coincedental names, that's all.
Save your money and re-watch the movie.
Rating: 2
Summary: Shadow Moon
Comment: A dark, twisted, and convoluted path for "Willow" to undertake, "Shadow Moon" gets points for creativity, but loses points because it so blatantly goes in another direction than that which was established by the wonderful film "prelude." Killing some of the major players and then renaming Willow himself is a sin. Of course, everyone likes to point the finger at Chris Claremont, completely forgetting that George Lucas is as much to blame. Lucas may have come up with the story for the film (easy enough, just take elements of "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Chronicles of Prydain" and bam! instant storyline), but he did not write the screenplay, so many of those brilliant bits from the film aren't to be credited his way in the first place. However, he AND Claremont are responsible for what happens in the novels, and what happens isn't good - both from a situational standpoint and from the perspective of "Willow" fans. This book may very well taint your view of the motion picture. You are forewarned - and for goodness sake, blame George Lucas as well.
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Title: Shadow Star (Chronicles of the Shadow War, Book 3) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas ISBN: 0553572881 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Willow: A Novel by Wayland Drew (Adapter), George Lucas, Bob Dolman ISBN: 0345351959 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title:Willow (Special Edition) ASIN: B00003CXDD Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title: Tatooine Ghost (Star Wars) by Troy Denning ISBN: 0345456696 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Kushiel's Avatar (Terre D'Ange) by Jacqueline Carey ISBN: 0765347539 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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