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Summary: Very Good
Review: I was kind of dissappointed with Mandalorian Armor, but Slave Ship was much better. Every thing is clear but you still have to put the pieces together. The characters are nicely done. Neelah's character was a great mystery. Slave Ship is a pretty good Star Wars book without going in to the same old theme the other books are stuck in.
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Summary: Great for Boba Fett fans!
Review: This book is very entertaining. I have read all the other books that have included bounty hunters, and this one takes the cake. I can't get enough of it, I have read it from cover to cover several times.
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Summary: I think its great
Review: I read the first book and it was just as good
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Summary: Solid if unspectacular continuation of the Boba Fett story
Review: Slave Ship (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars, Book 2)
by K.W. Jeter, continues the story of Boba Fett immediately after the debacle in the Sarlaac's belly and in flashback to a time at the beginnings of the galactic rebellion. Jeter continues to weave in interesting characters and to make tell interesting tales, but his inclusion of the Kuati storyline makes the thrust of the trilogy increasingly predictable. He also spends too much time in Fett's head, rather than drawing primarily on people's reactions to Fett, which would make the authors point but at the same time keep an air of mystery about the bounty hunter. OVerall, Jeter writes a solid if prediactable tale outside the normal Star Wars genera, which does tend to keep the storyline nice and dark, a change during a time period when the expanded universe seemed to be going through a bit of a dry spell in the original ideas department. His ideas are new, but the way he implements them makes this book predictable but still enjoyable.
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Summary: The further adventures of Boba Fett...
Review: This book follows along the same lines as The Mandalorian Armor, but that's expected in a trilogy. The "now" and "then" convention is still used to denote the two different time periods, although this time we see that the "then" portions are really the story Dengar is telling to Neelah. Although this switching still seems a little awkward to me, it grows on you after a while.My favorite part of Slave Ship was the focus on Kuat of Kuat. In The Mandalorian Armor, we barely get a glimpse of this ultimate engineer, but in Slave Ship his character is fully fleshed out. His troubles with the ruling houses of Kuat provide the background for my favorite scene in the novel. Also, the subplot with Kuh'dar Mu'bat and his upstart Balancsheet is interesting. I still wish Jeter would have stayed with the original characterizations of the bounty hunters. Also, his writing style still does not seem well-suited to a Star Wars book, although it improved from The Mandalorian Armor. It's a good book, and definitely worth reading if you like Star Wars. I'd still recommend beginners to start with another series though.
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Summary: it's actually worse than the first book!
Review: This is the second volume of the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy. I read this book not too long ago and I'm already fuzzy on what exactly happened in it. The storylines began in "The Mandalorian Armor" have not been advanced much, except for what happened off screen. Boba Fett, having been rescued by Dengar, is trying to convince the galaxy that he is still dead, so he is hiding his true identity while going into business with Dengar. There is a lot of backstory going on (which I call the previous book). Then, in the other storyline occurring in the past we have found out that the Bounty Hunters Guild has splintered into two fragments. Xizor is still trying to destroy the Guild even farther so all that is left is individual, highly motivated, bounty hunters.
There is far too much backstory and characters explaining things and trying to find out how everything fits together. There is plenty of chapters with Kuat of Kuat and his shipbuilding yards and Kuat trying to hold onto the control he has over the Kuat Driveyards. "Slave Ship" is just a tedious book that takes far too long to accomplish far too little story and action. There were a couple of decent scenes (trying to capture the Imperial defector was very good), but overall this was just a fairly weak novel and was very, very disappointing.
Hopefully the concluding volume of this trilogy will be far better, because if I wasn't trying to read all of the Star Wars novels this would be a complete waste of my time.
-Joe Sherry
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Summary: Predictable and Slow
Review: I read any and every Star Wars book that I can get my hands on. The Bounty Hunter Wars series was no exception. About now, I'm wishing that I wasn't such a die-hard fan! I've always bben intrigued by the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back and I usually like to know the secrets behind the characters in the background of the trilogy. However, this novel doesn't give much insight into anyone except Bossk. This is the sequel to Mandalorian Armor, and the second book in The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy. A dancing girl that escaped from Jabba the Hutt's Palace is searching for keys to her past. She knows she wasn't always one of Jabba's slaves, and that Boba Fett is somehow involved. In this part of the trilogy, Boba Fett has healed from his injuries in the Sarlaac Pit and is on his way to an unknown destination in a stolen ship with Neelah (the slave dancer) and Dengar (his savior) in tow. Along the way, Neelah forces information about Boba Fett out of Dengar. There are some scenes with Prince Xizor, but each scene seems to be a repeat performance of the first. Kud'ar Mub'at started off as an interesting character, but then became increasingly annoying. What happens to his character is pretty predictable considering that the author finds it necessary to remind us several times how Kud'ar Mub'at came into power in the first place (I won't tell you what happens in case you decide you still want to read this series). The book starts slow, gets slower, and finally, at the end, begins to pick up speed. However, by then, most people would have lost interest. I'm still trying to figure out what Neelah has to do with all of this. At least in this sequel, we finally begin to realize why Kuat Drive Yards' Administrator wants Boba Fett dead. Hopefully, the third book in the series will be the best. If you're a die-hard fan like I am, then you'll read this book. Otherwise, I suggest you ship this series - you won't be missing much.
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Summary: "Shudder"
Review: Out of respect for the serise and Fett I gave this book 2 stars. It really deserves 1. What this serise does is take better already mapped areas of the Star War universe and stings them together in a totally unconving way. For example the wounds Fett suffered and the allience with Dengar has already been discused. Why do people feel the emd to rehash it? Overall-Whole serise total waste of time(unless you like The Black Sun).
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