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Star Wars Fate of the Jedi 2: Omen

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Has anyone else read this yet? Came out a couple weeks ago.

I just finished the second book of the new Star Wars novel series, Fate of the Jedi. Omen is written by Christie Golden, a newcomer to the SWverse who earlier has written several ST:VOY books.

First off, this book is an absolute rip-off. It's bad enough that the 9 book series is completely in hardcover. But this one is 236 pages!!!! For $27!!!! Thank god I got this from the library :p

Secondly, nothing really happens in this book. Luke visits another random Force-user place that Jacen went to and yet another young Jedi goes koo-koo. That's really about it.

Also there was a subplot about a heretofore unheard of Sith cult on some backwater planet coming into contact with the Sith Meditation Sphere from the LOTF series... and they never come into contact with the rest of the story.

This literally felt like the first half of a novel. And since the SW books usually about twice as long as this is, that sounds about right. Still, I'm enjoying the series and look forward to learning what is causing the koo-koo Jedi.

Also they confirmed my theory from Book One, that the ultimate baddie is living in the Maw! Boo yah.
 
waiting for my turn to grab it from the library. 200+ pages is complete BS to have to pay hardcover prices for...
 
Waiting for paperback. First time I'm doing that for the 'mainline' SW line in a while. Just too short for that price and all the reviews say nothing significant happens.
 
I still am a little pissed that the entire series is going to be in paperback...I think they would have thought differently had the economy not gone bottom's up a couple ofmonths later. Anyway the book was a little underwhelming but enjoyable. I haven't gotten around to reading Omen yet, I just got it last week from the library and have yet to read it. I assume that these Sith are Darth Krayt's sith from Legacy that were speaking to Jacen when he travelled to Korriban.
 
No, those are the "One Sith" still hiding on Korriban. The novel mentions them in passing. This is a different group called "The Tribe". They've been living on a pre-warp planet for centuries after a Sith ship crash-landed and they've since interbred with the local people. They didn't even know what was going on in the world outside and thought the Sith had been ruling the galaxy for all these centuries.
 
Waiting to catch this one at the library. In a way I'm sort of glad it's a hardback series so it saves me money, though unfortunately I have to wait longer to read it. I read the first book in the series, and I thought that one moved a bit slowly. I'm not encouraged by your review for Omen in terms of pacing.
 
The first one was decent I thought, even if nothing huge happened, it was a good introduction but not epic. The second part is basically just a reiteration of the first book with no major new developments, with less action and less interesting scenarios. And even fewer pages :p
 
I read both of them in the bookstore's cafe. If I'd bought it, I'd be pretty pissed too. Not worth 20 something bucks.
 
I bought the first book, Outcast, which I enjoyed. But after hearing all the bad press about Omen, not including the page count for a $27 book, I'm going to wait till the rest of the series comes out in paperback.
 
Read Outcast cause of the Luke-centric story. Largely boring, with the baggage of the New Jedi Order and Dark Nest crap dragging it down. Ben is OK, but the other young Jedi are hugely irritating. Fallout from Emo Vader Part II is tiring, as well.

I figured the opening and closing would be in hardcover, but with all NINE in hardcover, and half-length to boot? No thanks. Not good enough to warrant my time, even in paperback.

What's wrong with trilogies or strong stand alones? Why does everything Star Wars have to be a never-ending epic journey of endless mediocrity or suck? Pretty sad when The Thrawn Trilogy is still the best EU book series. Three books filled with awesome. I wanted more, but if Del Rey had their claws in it, they'd have dragged it out for twenty progressively shitty random hack author crap. Better to have three solid books.

Bring back Bantam. I definitely had more fun reading those stories.
 
Well at least Outcast was 336 pages, though that's probably counting the 10 page preview for the next book...
 
Christie Golden wrote a half-book where nothing interesting happens? I'm shocked; shocked, I say. :lol:

I got so bored with LotF that I stopped reading four books in. When they announced that this series would be exactly the same, only switching Golden for Traviss, I knew that was it for me when it came to the future of this universe. Can't say I'm surprised by what I'm reading here, if still a bit disappointing.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
Her early work was good, but her latter books--particularly those meant to continue the series after the show's finale--were pretty bad. They were split into two duologies where each book had about the content of half of one, and where next to nothing happens until the end of the second half-book.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
Wow...and here I was looking forward to getting back into Star Wars books with the Fate of the Jedi series. I definitely wasn't going to buy any of 'em in hardcover, probably won't when they come out in paperback either...
 
Base_Delta_Zero said:
Read Outcast cause of the Luke-centric story. Largely boring, with the baggage of the New Jedi Order and Dark Nest crap dragging it down. Ben is OK, but the other young Jedi are hugely irritating. Fallout from Emo Vader Part II is tiring, as well.

I figured the opening and closing would be in hardcover, but with all NINE in hardcover, and half-length to boot? No thanks. Not good enough to warrant my time, even in paperback.

What's wrong with trilogies or strong stand alones? Why does everything Star Wars have to be a never-ending epic journey of endless mediocrity or suck? Pretty sad when The Thrawn Trilogy is still the best EU book series. Three books filled with awesome. I wanted more, but if Del Rey had their claws in it, they'd have dragged it out for twenty progressively shitty random hack author crap. Better to have three solid books.

Bring back Bantam. I definitely had more fun reading those stories.
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Amen!
I just started to re-read the Thrawn trilogy. Still an outstanding series of books. I agree, the Bantam Era is much better than Del Rey's current run. I miss the days when a stand alone adventure would be released. A series never went more than three books. Although I will admit that Del Rey finally started releasing some standalones like Shadows of Mindor and Millienium Falcon.
 
I'm waiting for paperback. I'm done buying SW hardcovers unless it's for a big event (like Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor). And after Del Rey's last "uber-epic OMGWTF biggest threat to the galaxy EVAR" series turned out to be a disappointing pile of crap, I'm not in as much of a rush to read SW novels as I used to be.
 
I prefer having epic series to stand-alones. Yeah the Thrawn Trilogy was stellar... but so many of the Bantam books were just awful. So I'd rather have consistency than a couple classics and a lot of garbage. This way it feels like a serial TV show of evolving characters and stories. I really enjoyed LOTF (except for the last book!) and I'm still looking forward to FOTJ despite this poor second book.
 
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