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Title: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 12) by Aaron Allston, Jonathan Davis ISBN: 0-553-71302-7 Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (53 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True to the Spirit Created by Lucas
Comment: Aaron Allston's 'Rebel Stand' continues the story of the first novel in the 'Enemy Lines' duology, 'Rebel Dream'. Luke Skywalker has sensed one of those famous disturbances in the force, and it is coming from Coruscant. The only problem with that is the former capital of the New Republic is firmly in the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong and is undergoing 'Vongification'. Meanwhile, Han and Leia Solo venture to a few remote worlds to set up Vong resistance cells, and they bring along C-3P0 and R2-D2 with them. Back on Borleias, General Wedge Antilles prepares to bring his forces into combat against the Vong.
Of all the novels in the 'New Jedi Order', 'Rebel Stand' proportionally gives the most face time to the 'classic' heroes. Although Jaina Solo, Jag Fel, and Kyp Durron, amongst others, are welcome and interesting editions to the cast, it refreshing to see Luke and Han play a more central role in the action for once.
For the most part, Luke's mission to Coruscant was well done. Luke's wife, Mara, a young Jedi named Tahiri, and the Wraiths (a CIA-like outfit for the New Republic) tag along. Their mission begins as an effort to organize the citizenry left behind on Coruscant, but changes when they discover an unusual larger than life Dark Jedi bent on conquest. For the most part, I was pleased with the Jedi's mission to Coruscant, althought I felt the duel with the mysterious Jedi went a little over the top at the end.
Maybe the most enjoyable moment of the book came in a scene starring C-3P0 and R2-D2. These two are finally re-united for some significant and memorable scenes. Their banter is classic Star Wars. The other famous duo, Han and Leia, also come off wonderfully in this novel. Han was at his wise-cracking best, and Leia has filled in for Chewbacca wonderfully as his new partner, now that she has gone 'scoundrel'.
As the New Jedi Order series has moved along, the series, thus far, has become more and more adept at capturing the feel of the movies. 'Rebel Stand' may have done the best job of that so far with parts of the novel reminding me of the original 'Star Wars', 'The Empire Strikes Back', and 'Return of the Jedi'. For a change, the writers have begun to focus less on what makes other forms of science fiction unique and returned to what makes Star Wars so great.
I'd recommend this novel to anyone reading the 'New Jedi Order' series. As with any novel in this series, I would recommend starting with 'Vector Prime' first, and at least read 'Rebel Dream' before thise. Starting with this one will ruin many of the surprises of the previous eleven novels in the series. However, this is one of the better novels, so it may be tempting to skip ahead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hooray for Allston!
Comment: This was a great book! We got to see many of our old favs is action, including Rogues & Wraiths, a little romance among all the couples (Jaina & Jag are wonderful, a lot like Han & Leia) an inciteful look into the Vong, & finally Luke & Mara doing something that reminds me of the way they were in the Hand of Thrawn duology. Lord Nyax was a interesting curve & a cool tie in of older books,Ep1,& Ep2. Luke finally figured out that stopping the bad guys isn't the same as aggression (something he use to know but recent authors didn't seem to know that.)Tahiri's pain revelation seems like a great lead to future events (Traitor perhaps?) and Wedge's x-wing battle had me racing to the next page as fast as I could read. Allston made me laugh out loud many times. This is what Star Wars books should be like!! I hope to see this kind of writing in the future NJO, the last 2 books have renewed my faith in this series, because I had been getting disappointed a lot before this. Other books have had some good parts but couldn't seem to hold it together for the whole book. This book held me captive from page 1 to 367, & dying to know what happens next. A small aside, I was very upset when Anakin was killed, but have to say that Jaina & Tahiri are now developing into strong female leaders, something that's hard to find in any story line. Keep up the good work Mr. Allston!
Rating: 4
Summary: 4 and a half stars... an enthralling work on behalf of A.A.
Comment: Out of all the New Jedi Order books so far, this one kept my attention the best throughout, for a variety of reasons.
First was the rapidly shifting plots and points of view - rotating through Jaina, Luke, Wedge and a variety of others, Allston takes careful time to flush out the storyline that each character finds themselves embroiled in. Of greatest interest to me was the Lord Nyax-Luke Skywalker story on Coruscant; for once an actual Jedi-on-Jedi contest, even if Nyax really couldn't be considered a Jedi, Allston's portrayal of him as a mute, hugely powerful and crazed individual was perfect. The display of power he puts on through the Force is also quite well described and explained.
As well, throughout the story I came to greatly appreciate the military tactics that Allston described in the defence of Borelias - the time and thought obviously put into each situation shows itself well.
More than anything though, I think Allston deserves credit for setting up the bridge between the two Solo books - Dark Journey and Traitor - a task not easily performed in that events throughout the Enemy Lines are related to what is happening in those books.
All in all a great read, and a fine progression in the New Jedi Order series.
4.5/5
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