Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 17) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix, and Jonathan Davis

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Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 17)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

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Audio CD

Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (July 1, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0553713663

ISBN-13: 978-0553713664

Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces ()

Product Description
The Jedi move one step closer to saving the embattled galaxy— only to confront a formidable wall of resistance.

The harrowing search for Zonama Sekot is finally over for Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and the others aboard the Jade Shadow. But joy turns to alarm when the living planet sends a defiant message: it refuses to follow them back to a galaxy full of war, exploitation, and misery.

While Luke works feverishly to persuade the elusive planet to reconsider, the Yuuzhan Vong launches a full-scale attack aimed at the heart of the new alliance. Sent to defend a major communications base, Han and Leia find themselves hopelessly outnumbered. Reinforcements are just too far away to help before everything is destroyed. So the courageous pair must now fight an unrelenting battle against staggering odds. Whether they actually survive is another matter. . . .

About the Author
Sean Williams and Shane Dix are the bestselling and award-winning coauthors of the Evergence series. Their last novels were Echoes of Earth and its sequel Orphans of Earth. Individually, both have numerous short story credits, and Williams is a successful author in his own right. His novels include Metal Fatigue and The Resurrected Man. His fantasy series, The Books of the Change, concluded in December 2002.

Williams and Dix both live in Adelaide, South Australia, a city Salman Rushdie once described as the ideal setting for a horror story. Dix lives with his wife, Nydia, and has two children from a previous relationship. Williams lives with writer Kirsty Brooks and DJs in his spare time.

For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com.au.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 17) (Mass Market Paperback) This is the 17th Book in the The New Jedi Order saga, or 19th if you count the 2 e-book only stories. Only two more books to go. The third and last book in this story by Sean Williams and Shane Dix, is the more entertaining of the three books, but that's not too hard to achieve. And don't get me wrong, there's plenty, I mean, lots of cinematic action around... but most of it makes little sense. The book continues with the 3 stories of the last two books: the search for the living-planet Zonama Sekot by Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Saba Sebatyne, Tekli, Danni Quee and the group of the Imperial Remnant helping them. Guess what? They finally found it. I have to repeat my recommendation to read another SW book, not part of the New Jedi Order: "Star Wars: Rogue Planet" by Greg Bear ... It's not very good, but you can understand the importance of Zonama Sekot, the interaction with the Jedi Vergere and Anakin Skywalker role in the history of this planet. If you think this idea of a sentient planet, I'll have to refer you to Marvel Comics, where "Ego, The Living Planet" has been around for some decades. Crazy, I know. I'm sure there must be a prior work in the SciFi literature somewhere. The best part of this story (and maybe the book) must be the narration of Zonama's flora and fauna. You can get to imagine this wonderful world, full of life and the Force. The problem with this part is all the secondary story, this rebel group in Zonama, and the decisions of Jacen Solo. It's really exasperating. It's almost as if Jacen is returned to his pre-Vergere thinking. And it's not fully explained (or at least satisfactory) the decision Luke makes. Finally, the story ends very weak, you can see Zenoama Sekot endured a lot of problems when it was travelling around the galaxy, but now the Ferroans have some technology which will prevent that of happening again, if there's going to be another "tour". Yeah, right. And then there's this news bulletin Luke gives to his sister in an insecure comm channel, when just some lines before Leia was making that evident to another person. You would think you'd like to be sure there are no information leaks. Another storyline is the one with Nom Anor and his rebellion among the Shamed Ones, which leads to nowhere. We continue to see Shimrra, and the Yuuzhan Vong finally appeared, but as another reviewer said, the Yuuzhan Vong are being dumbed down, they are not that formidable force we have seen in the first 14 books. And it's not that they have changed for the worst, it's only part of the storyline plan, I guess. There's no way the editor(s) could allow this very different (bad?) representation. The other storyline is about the party from the Galactic Federation of Free-Alliances formed by Han and Leia Organa Solo, Jaina, Jag Fel, etc. There's a lot of action here, but also, many holes in the story, or not fully explained things, or things handled with a degree of levity. There's one part of the story where you see both warring parts are expecting something to happen in the surface below, and you can't see clearly why one side of it want's so badly to be there. "Don't worry", it's "explained" at the beginning of the epilogue. It doesn't make much sense, really. Now, this is the book from the three-part "Force Heretic" that I read quicker and maybe I enjoyed most, but it must be beacause I already invested in the previous two books. This is the weakest books of all the New Jedi Order series, and it's a shame they dedicated three books to it. The last two books must be a great deal better than these last three to leave a good taste to the entire series. I really hope so.

Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 17)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.