Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension

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To put it simply, this book frustrated me. Why all the writing about government takeovers? Spend some time writing about the real story of this series: Abeloth, Vestara, Luke and Ben's adventure, Jedi struggles, Lost Tribe of the Sith, etc. Another frustration was inconsistency of character. Why would you have Vestara sincerely wanting to be a Jedi (even Luke says he senses nothing but the truth from her) and a few pages later, Vestara is killing a Jedi and saying she'll always be a Sith? That's not a clever twist, just silly, immature writing. The only way to remain consistent with the character of Verstara in the next book will be to have her dying while in the act of saving Ben's life. After reading this book, I felt like I was just getting to the meat of the story in the series. Unless the last book is 5000 pages long - catching up on all the stuff I felt was left out - I'm quite certain I'll feal cheated. Unfortunately, I'm an avid reader of all the Star Wars extended...Read more

As an avid Star Wars fan who LOVES the classic characters, I was left wanting with this book. I felt as though all the characters were a bit naive and juvenile, and that the themes/plot lines discussed should have been included much, much earlier in the series.

That aside, Christie Golden has never really captured my attention in any of her other books, but this book sucked me in. Every day, I couldn't wait to read it because it had enough action to keep me coming back. For most of the book, I felt as though I was waiting in line at an amusement park for the best ride. Sadly I was left disappointed at the end.

Each of the other books in the series has had a semblance of closure, but this is not the case with Ascension. When I reached the last page, I wanted to throw my Nook across the room (which would have been bad since I live in China). Instead I woke my wife with my screams of frustration.

Overall, this is an average SW book that every Classic...Read more

This story wasn't finished. I literally kept back paging in my Kindle to find out where i'd missed plot points that resloved themselves without any lead-in material, *cough* Khai's death *cry*. I'd already considered not buying this book as I didn't feel that Golden was really in touch with the Star Wars characters. Luke is apparently as moody as a kid, as she writes him he is always annoyed or angry and HAS to draw on the force to keep his calm. She tries to write these characters as if they were her creation and she's showing them to us through her eyes, except she didn't create them and their mannerisms have pretty much been in place for a loooong time.

As I stated earlier her plot mechanics just aren't there. This would've been a great book if she'd bothered to put some meat in between the slices of bread. We go from world changing events with the Lost Tribe to hahaaa we're over here now and had been setting this up for a long time aka the 3 years since we've...Read more