Questions About New Jedi Order Series (Star Wars: Expanded Universe)

[Stevil2001]

Re: Questions About New Jedi Order Series (Star Wars: Expanded Univers

Edge of Victory was awesome. It's not about the "Vong conquer planet heroes can only flee", it's about how Anakin Solo learns to become a hero, and it made the Yuuzhan Vong into an interesting culture with some depth.

 

[RandyS]

Re: Questions About New Jedi Order Series (Star Wars: Expanded Univers

I thought LOTF was the perfect length, and that something important happened in almost every novel, and the evolution of Jacen was handled excellently (better than Anakin in the Prequels).

NJO, all the books before "Star By Star" felt really repetitive and unnecessary. How many times do we need to see 'Vong conquer planet heroes can only flee'?

The Dark Tide two parter was fun, but I felt the Agents Chaos two parter, Balance Point, and the Edge Victory two parter were all repetitive. At the very least they should have cut Chaos and Edge into single books and eliminated Balance Point altogether. I just recently reread these books and I don't really get the point of this book aside from a little character turn for Jacen that could have happened elsewhere. I'm currently on-and-off rereading the Force Heretic trilogy because I can't get into it, it just feels unnecessary and strung out and boring.

Interesting. I had the same reaction. Not only to the Force Heretic trilogy, but to most of the rest of the NJO. It had it's good points, but mostly the whole thing felt strung out.