'Dark Nest I: The Joiner King' discussion

[Singin Hobo]

CLICK HERE FOR A SPOILER FREE REVIEW OF THE DARK NEST TRILOGY! (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=467928)

I would have loved to have seen more interaction with the Yuzzhan Vong than the very brief mention of them at the start. It seems like a very abrupt shift after having 20 books that were entirely about the Vong and now a trilogy that apparently doesn’t even include them in any real way.

Okay, I was going to be really pissed at this book for one thing: and that would be putting Leia back into the political arena and starting the whole messy business of the drama between her life as a leader of the galaxy and Han’s life as a low-life smuggler… blah blah blah. I honestly thought it was going to go the same way and I was sorta ho-hum about the entire book up until the point that Leia said what she said in the last two pages.

FREAKING AWESOME! Ever since I started reading Star Wars books I’ve wanted Leia to be a for real Jedi. And now that she’s actually going to take that on freaking RULES! And the fact that she asked Saba to be her mentor cracks me up… Barabels are probably my favorite EU species. They just crack me up :)

Moving on… the whole insect thing is kinda neat for a story, but I’m not so sure how it’s going to work for an entire trilogy. Though, it was very cool how he tied the whole thing into characters we forgot all about from Star By Star.

And don’t you think that Jaina is too important of a character for her to have to deal with this I-feel-like-an-insect complex for the rest of her life :rolleyes:?

Oh and one last thing… did you just freaking love the whole business of unlocking R2D2’s secrets? I sure as heck did. It’s so much fun to have the secrets that we know being revealed to new characters… at least to me it is. I know some of the traditional EU fans will find reason to hate it, but I love it. It’s crazy that they’re about 50 years old and they just now find out the name of their mother. I look forward to however that thread is continued throughout this trilogy.

[DarthLlama226]

One would think that they wouldve found their mother's name long before then, but hey...

Anyway, this was indeed a great book. There was one little thing that I didn't particularly like about the ships. I wish Troy Denning had gone a little more in detail about the StealthX's and ChaseX's, like how they are so much different from a standard XJ.

I think it says somewhere in the book that if the strike team stays away from any colonies for long enough, they will begin to regain their individuality. It might have been somewhere around when Cilghal was examing Tesar and all of them.

I personally don't like how Cal Omas has turned out. He seemed totally cooperative with the Jedi during the NJO, but now he is treating them like some Star Wars equivalent of a SWAT team, against the will of the Jedi? Or, even worse, treating them like Old Republic Jedi. Bad Omas.

[Singin Hobo]

But I thought that Jaina and whatzizbutt had somehow become true joiners by the end... what with the dancing and all the bugs crawling into their wounds.

As for Cal I don't like the character much, either... but it only makes sense that they should always be fighting with opposition from every direction... that's just what makes it a good story and the heroes more compelling... so I guess it makes the story better. I do think that sometimes them always having trouble and seemingly nothing ever getting resolved runs tired after awhile. :shake:

[Sirithe]

Okay, good book, glad Leias actually going to be full Jedi.
But the one thing, reading Unseen Queen, I just finished the prologue and I am sick of Joiner Jaina and Zekk, FINISH YOUR OWN DAMN SENTENCES!

[coheed]

I am bumping this ancient thread to say that the chapter where Saba hunts Welk and they duel is one of the coolest in all of Star Wars literature.