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Couldn’t even finish it.

Revisado: 02-07-23

I don’t understand how anyone can like this book. The author labels paragraphs chapters, no character has any depth, and there is no reason to care about any of them. It skips back and forth between sprinting through Guant’s backstory and the sprinting through the present day.

We meet Gaunt’s mentor for three paragraphs, then in the next flashback he is dead and its explained in two sentences. In the present it starts a battle then skips to several hours in. The book largely introduces characters that don’t have models for the game just so they can be killed off next “chapter.”

To top it all of the voice acting is cliche. Really, the regiment called “Tanith” are Scottish, and their leader is Victorian styled British? Yikes.

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Easily the best Thrawn Novel Yet!

Revisado: 03-11-21

Zahn knocks it out of the park here! Given almost complete freedom to do whatever he wants, Zahn shows us what Star Wars can really be, and what a story outside of the normal rules of Jedi and Sith, and Empire and Rebellion can really be like!

Also does a good job of showing Thrawn as a younger man, showing him grow and mature while still being recognizable and consistent. The new characters fit naturally into the setting and story, and Chiss Ascendency has become my new favorite Star Wars Faction!

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Scratches that Firefly itch perfectly!

Revisado: 03-11-21

Reads as a slightly stretched out episode of the show! Perfect for those feeling “only 1 season?” symptoms.

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Want to know what being high is like? Listen to this book!

Revisado: 03-11-21

I genuinely do not understand why this is considered a classic. It reads like an acid trip taken after you have started smoking weed. There is no rhyme or reason to any part of the stories at any point in time. I could not listen to more than about half an hour at a time because I felt like I was high despite being completely sober.

If thats what you are looking for, well, I suppose I can recommend it then. I suppose really small children would like it as well. Perhaps I am just not part of the target audience then.

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A waste of a good narrator.

Revisado: 10-04-19

Marc Thompson is probably the best narrator I have listened to through this service. His work with Timothy Zahn's Thrawn books, both the originals and the Disney timeline novels, is amazing. His voice is just as good in this audio-book, unfortunately, it is also the only good thing about this audio-book.
The story is bland, and unwilling to take real risks. There are several dozen instances of characters dying, only for the author to suddenly remember that he need that character for later and finding some cop-out to pretend they didn't just obviously die. It makes all potential danger meaningless. There is also next to no chemistry between any of the characters, even the mother/son relationship feels fake. It is also full of modern slang that doesn't appear in any other piece of Star Wars, and, most bizarrely, actually contains a reference to a 1930s cartoon character.
Check out the other books Marc Thompson narrates, especially all 6 of the unabridged Thrawn books (3 Legends, 3 canon)

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