There are some things I liked about the book and some I didn'tI liked:-That Mara Jade was there of course :0)-The action sequences are outstanding. I could almost feel parts of blown-up walls and buildings flying all over me through the POV from La Rone and company.-Timothy Zahn's command of the ...
Took a long time to read but the second half finished strong! Mara Jade, The Hand of Judgment, and Grand Admiral Thrawn, 'nuff said.
4th book in a series. Read this one for the Endeavour Award. I'm guessing its a classic murder mystery set on a train - sure to be an homage to something - the only thing I've ever heard of is Murder on the Orient Express. Except that it's a galactic train with aliens. An okay read and not re...
"A Jedi can't get so caught up in matters of galactic importance that it interferes with his concern for individual people"It's had a permanent space on my top books of all time, and there is a reason. Considered by most Star Wars fans to be the best Star Wars Expanded Universe novel and the birt...
A trilogy that evolved in a wise way. But it was so artistically done. HOW A TRILOGY SHOULD BEMaybe how a trilogy should be it’s that all three parts would be the same as good. I am sure nobody would mind about that.However, if perfection isn’t in the equation, I think that a wise approach is c...
So, after my last post, I realized that I kind of liked the idea of going through a book by each of my top five authors. And since I had just done a YA Leguin novel, it seemed only fair to follow it with another YA novel; this time, I went to Timothy Zahn, specifically back to his Dragonback seri...
Having cleared his name, Jack sets out to trace the mercenaries that blasted Draycos' people. To do this, Jack joins a mercenary organization, figuring he can use his proximity to their systems to break in and steal what he needs. Things go wrong almost from the start when Jack is prematurely shi...
I picked this book because I needed my "dragon" spot filled on the reading bingo. I asked a friend which dragon book I should read and she said this one. You could make a case that Draycos is not really a dragon because he’s an alien. But it’s in the title! And Jack calls him a dragon more than o...
I was reading another book, but I got so tired of the issues I had with that book, I had to take a break. Plus, I got to meet Timothy Zahn on January 8th, so I was pumped to finish reading my almost complete collection of Timothy Zahn published works!Humankind (to be politically correct) has fina...
I was a huge fan of Zahn's Star Wars sequel books when I was much younger, so I came into this hoping for a cracking good adventure ... and I was both disappointed and not.The mystery and intrigue in this novel take off to a quick start when Frank Compton sees someone murdered in front of him and...
Every time I think that Timothy Zahn is done with the Star Wars Universe, he surprises me by coming back. Zahn was conspicuously absent from the New Jedi Order series (an 18 book epic that pitted the cast of the original trilogy against a race of bio-tech wielding aliens), and his Hand of Thrawn ...
(Update July 2013: The Conqueror's series is one of the most impressive stories I have ever read (I've graded ~2000). Although not all the books earned an A grade on first read because of the complexity, the overall series is a strong grade A. I suspect each story will earn a grade A on second re...
"Conqueror's Pride" by Timothy Zahn is a good, solid space opera. It's a good read for fans of the genre.By "space opera", I mean a science fiction book that doesn't really explore any hard scientific themes, but instead focuses on plot and adventure. Maybe there will be some character developm...
Every time I read this authors name I imagine fat, old Kirk shaking his fist and yelling, "Zaaaaahhhhhn".Anyway, I actually read this because Nathan was wondering if Zahn was similar at all to David Weber. I hadn't read any Zahn before (except the first 30 pages or so of a Star Wars novel, I just...
(Update July 2013: The Conqueror's series is one of the most impressive stories I have ever read (I've read 2000). Although not all the books earned an A grade on first read because of the complexity, the overall series is a strong grade A. I suspect each story will earn a grade A on second read....
The Blackcollar marks the beginning of Timothy Zahn's career that would culminate in the creation of the best Star Wars trilogy on the market. As he is my favorite author, I couldn't miss out on this one.ETA 06/09/14: After reading more books and thinking back on my feelings for this book, I have...