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STAR WARS: AFTERMATH: EMPIRES END PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Chuck Wendig | 384 pages | 23 Feb 2017 | Cornerstone | 9781780892634 | English | London, United Kingdom Star Wars: Aftermath: Empires End PDF Book Though she was already a fantastic character even going back to her first appearance in A New Dawn, much of her growth has been seen in the Aftermath trilogy. The fighting is interrupted when Rax's Imperial forces begin bombarding Niima's convoy with turbolasers. Are we really not past this gimmick yet? Resistance Reborn This concluding entry features the same poor prose--writing that makes it sound like Wendig spends all of his time reading social media instead of good books. When it comes to storytelling, whether in film or in literature, a trilogy is hard to beat. He had not only ONE flagship Sloane is chasing Rax there, and Norra is chasing Sloane. The longer the war goes on for the Republic, the better for the criminals. Instead, if you're the creator of this series, you double down and make this error as dementedly egregious as possible! Digital Spy. Their efforts provide Chancellor Mon Mothma with the votes she needs, and the motion passes. I also got very emotionally involved in all the hateful online backlash over Wendig's inclusion of some gay characters, and that only bolstered my opinions of Chuck Wendig, and made me want to support him and this trilogy even more. Eventually, after the Empire loses on Jakku and Imperial ruling council member Mas Amedda crawls out of where Rax tried to imprison him, Amedda contacts the New Republic to surrender on behalf of the Empire, ending the war. Seeing a chance to break the stalemate, Ackbar contacts Commodore Agate. Eventually, they will all meet up at Jakku to decide the final fate of the galaxy. Goodreads Librari I was initially promised this series would be this generations' Thrawn Trilogy. Stay in Touch Sign up. But they saved Kashyyyk. The problem is that zero multiplied by a hundred is still zero, so what we end up with is something which might pass as a sub-par start if you were feeling charitable. Perhaps the archives are incomplete. The Imperial and rebel also discuss their motives for wanting to take out Rax. Brentin is killed during the struggle but Norra manages to pass Sloane a blaster , allowing her to kill Rax. On Jakku, Norra finds herself a captive of the Empire. The Guardian. People trusted Palpatine, once. Jas is angry with Norra for her impromptu landing since she did not have time to bring her weapons. Temmin weeps for his lost friend. Included in this is an impressive characterisation and backstory for the young General Hux, whose portrayal in the movies makes much more sense now. The New Republic ground forces clash with the Imperial Army. Norra allows Bones to exit the shuttle in order to find his master Temmin. It boils down their relationship to, once again, a lot of cliches about the mother being protective and the son wanting to prove himself. Shortly later, Solo returns to inform her that the New Republic is intervening in Jakku. Knowing that a re-vote has been scheduled to take place on Nakadia, Wartol is confident that Mothma's vote to secure military intervention on Jakku will fail again. It really does pack one hell of a punch and wraps the trilogy up really nicely in my eyes. That, alone, was worth the price of purchase. Are we clear? Corruption and dysfunction consume pretty much literally everyone involved in the New Republic except for the core OT cast, who are surprisingly inactive the whole time. Norra and her crew soar into the heart of an apocalyptic clash that will leave land and sky alike scorched. On the remote planet of Jakku, far from Republic eyes, the once- secretive Gallius Rax strives to rebuild the crumbling Empire in his own image. Like all ways not everyone gets out alive. Star Wars: Aftermath: Empires End Writer Want to Read saving…. I'm so ashamed. Almost everyone else. All right! Rethalow confesses that he along with Ek and Wieedo were bribed into voting against the New Republic intervention on Jakku in return for a favorable trade deal. As the Imperial fleet orbits Jakku, an armada of Republic fighters closes in to finish what began at Endor. Said battle of Jakku for me is worth price of entry alone. Product Details. Mothma reprimands Leia for sending Norra and her team on an unauthorized mission to hunt down Grand Admiral Sloane. Star Wars has never really been about realistic, or even action-movie, fighting and gore. This book teases at leia being a Jedi, Ben is born and Leia senses the light and dark in him. Twice now we have delved deep into the gibbering insanity of this failing series, and found nothing but the antithesis of good storytelling in our path. For what it was it was ok. Now, this sort of angle could work with a kind of Suicide Squad style story, but scene after scene keeps treating these guys like unambiguous heroes. What are the stakes for her as she steers the ship of state? Are we clear? No solid clues given. This truth is revealed early in the story and a pleasant surprise as I was of the mind Rax would turn out to be an agent of the still-mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Niima will come up on you fast. Given that the main point of this entire book was to convey canon facts to me, since it couldn't seem to convey an enjoyable story or likable characters, I am disappointed that Empire's End couldn't even really do that very well. Mon Mothma doesn't come off as very smart. Having said that, I'll be straight to the cinema for The Rise of Skywalker!! I went into this book expecting to be disappointed, and I think it helped me appreciate the story a bit more. Los Angeles Times. Kenobi: Star Wars Legends. They are: 1. While the building is clean, Conder finds a listening device implanted inside the couple's nanny protocol droid T-2LC "Elsie". Sloane confronts Rax, who has commenced what Palpatine called his "Contingency": the Jakku Observatory will destroy the planet and the entirety of both the Imperial and New Republic forces, plunging the galaxy into chaos. Star Wars: Aftermath: Empires End Reviews Troy Denning. March 10, Few of these ever actually tie into the big grand finale in play until the very end, resulting in scene upon scene of what's effectively dead air. The book was very slow in places, infact I think I fell asleep reading it a couple of points. The fledgling New Republic has suffered a devastating attack from the Imperial remnant, forcing the new democracy to escalate their hunt for the hidden enemy. Maybe they just don't like Disney owning the rights ; for the record, I've found the new film trilogy to be a big let down. Some of your favs will perish-- but I really liked that they committed to it. The New York Times. He walks to confront them but is knocked out by an unidentified person. Each book was better than the last culminating in a huge battle in Empire's End. His voice is followed swiftly by more thumps and thuds. Fresh from their latest mission, the team is asked by General Leia Organa to find her husband Han Solo , who has gone missing during a personal mission to free the Wookiees on the enslaved planet Kashyyyk. Time and again - like so many of Disney's creations - the book opts to loot bits and pieces from the old Expanded Universe and treat them like its own. On Chandrila, Chancellor Mothma convinces Sinjir to work as her adviser due to his persuasion skills and cynical attitude. I'm used to character names in the Expanded Universe sounding like they were made by shaking a box of Alpha-Bits, but Tolwar Wartol? Combined with the story's habit of bouncing about, from one end of the galaxy to the next, after extremely short chapters or even mid-chapter in a few unfortunate cases you can be left reading about an entirely new world and not realise it for several pages. A corrosive force, eating away at everyone and everything. Home 1 Books 2. Wedge establishes a flight academy on Hosnian Prime , where he and Norra will be instructors, and Temmin—now officially known as "Snap"—will attend. Truly this has been a disappointing series at every turn. They are determined and they want revenge. Rax then informs his captive audience that they will be watching the impending showdown with the New Republic. The premise of the book is Gallius Rax, agent of the deceased Emperor, has successfully scuttled attempts by the New Republic and Empire to make a peace treaty. Aftermath: Empire's End For the first time in a generation, democracy has been restored to the galaxy. Back on Chandrila, Leia senses the presence of the Force in her unborn son. Rae Sloane is a great protagonist-antagonist, and I understand she is featured in several other new stories. Non-combatant functionaries like Amedda are given conditional pardons. Sinjir continues working alongside Sondiv Sella as Chancellor Mothma's adviser. So this book came out in , two years before Rise of Skywalker. Looking for More Great Reads? But Sloane, too, is on a furious quest: pursuing the treacherous Gallius Rax to the barren planet Jakku.

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