Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss
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3.9 • 51 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Jedi Master Mace Windu travels to a dangerous, remote planet on a mission that challenges even his deadly prowess—all to fulfill Qui-Gon’s last request.
The Jedi are reeling from Qui-Gon Jinn’s sudden death at the hands of a Sith. Jedi Master Mace Windu’s feelings about Qui-Gon have always been complicated—and have not been made any simpler by death. While they often disagreed, Mace valued Qui-Gon’s unique perspective, and their shared dedication to the Force made them allies. Without Qui-Gon and his unorthodox views, Mace feels out of balance.
While considering his fallen friend’s legacy, Mace is surprised to receive a final message from Qui-Gon, marked to be delivered to Mace in the event of Qui-Gon’s death. The message contains a last request: a plea to help the Outer Rim planet Metagos.
Many years ago, a violent solar flare transformed the surface of the desert planet into a landscape of irradiated glass—as beautiful as it is dangerous. Now most of the surviving inhabitants live underground, where rival clans fight to control the planet’s limited resources. As a young Jedi, Qui-Gon protected the Sa’ad farming clan from the planet’s less-scrupulous factions. The Sa’ad practice the art of dream-weaving, retaining their waking minds upon sleep in order to communicate and coexist with the wild creatures around them. Qui-Gon vowed to return if they ever required his aid, but now it falls to Mace to fulfill that promise. The Sa’ad’s leader, KinShan Nightbird, has begged for the Jedi’s help in freeing Metagos from the crime lords who threaten to eradicate her people’s way of life.
Intent on carrying out Qui-Gon’s final wishes, Mace travels to Metagos and infiltrates the enemies of the Sa’ad. But as the Jedi Master investigates the intricate web of adversaries and allies, Mace finds himself pushed to the boundaries of the Jedi code, with his beliefs and his relationship to the Force itself challenged.
Customer Reviews
Not like Mace…
Very abstract and difficult story to follow. Tells a story of Mace which drastically changes his character and in general all Jedi (from peace keeper(s) to that of a cold blooded killers).
A melting pot of madness
So many things wrong with this novel. In my decades of reading I’ve come across only a few books I couldn’t finish. This one I had to finish just because it was so bad I needed to see the unfolding disaster to its conclusion.
I could almost write a novel pointing out all the flaws from poorly written characters and world building to antagonists who flip-flop from being secondary characters to major characters and back again. The whole “flesh bridge” concept of Mace Windu’s nemesis didn’t make sense, especially the mechanics of how joining two species like that would make them more powerful than any Jedi. Instead, I kept picturing the awkwardness of two people tied together for a three-legged race.
Mace was a poor shadow of the character from the movies. He went from being tired all the time with issues accessing the Force to having unresolved childhood issues to having a romance that came out of nowhere and served no literary purpose. One notable part to point out is the random scene when Mace woke up and decided they needed to have a train heist.
The whole novel is filled with random scenes. Mace bounces around from one faction to the next and, for some unknown reason, everyone wants him to be in their club. From the way this book is written I picture a wannabe chef throwing in raw chicken, bananas, cheese, chocolate, some liquorice, and beets into a pot and shouting “voila.” I really hope AI was involved in the writing process because that would explain a lot.
The “epic” battle for the planet felt like someone telling me about someone telling them about something that happened to someone else. The reader needs to feel like part of the action, and this book failed at doing that.
Star Wars has been in my blood since the original movies were released and, for the most part, I love living in the SW universe. I can say this is easily the worst thing I’ve ever read, which includes episodes 7-9 and the book where bounty hunters got together and went to a wedding.