Shield of Lies: Star Wars (The Black Fleet Crisis)
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4.2 • 30 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every belief about the use of the Force is about to be challenged. And while Leia ponders a diplomatic solution to the aggression of the fierce Yevetha race, Han pilots a spy ship into the heart of Yevethan space and finds himself a hostage on one of the vast fleet of warships under the command of a ruthless leader.
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
Customer Reviews
Meh
I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the first. The book is divided into 3 parts from 3 main POVs: Lando, Luke and Leia. Lando’s section which I really liked in the first book was utterly boring in this one as the 1st 3rd of the book is his POV trying to get off of the ship they are stuck on. This took forever to get through.
Luke had an interesting but also a frustrating 2nd section. There is action and a goal involved. I found it frustrating though that a. He’s spending his time with a person that detests his actions even as justified as he is in them b. I don’t know why he insists on sticking with her and joining her group. He has a group they’re called the Jedi and he leads them. Why he wants to leave that for no real apparent reason other than he doesn’t want to solve everyone else’s issues I don’t really know.
Finally, Leia has the 3rd POV except there’s not really much Leia. It’s maybe more Ackbar and seemingly the main nemesis in this book. There is little bit of politics in play here but nothing of real interest and it could lead the Republic into another war.
All that being said the title of this trilogy is the Black Fleet Crisis and I feel like outside of the initial mystery Lando was investigating this seems to have been forgotten and all of these side journey’s are distracting from that potential promise and that to me is real frustrating.