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| Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7) | 
 enlarge | Author: Aaron Allston
Publisher: Del Rey
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345477561
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: November 27, 2007
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Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacen’s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory–whatever the price.
While Luke grieves the loss of his beloved wife and deals with his guilt over killing the wrong person in retaliation, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk hunt for the real assassin, unaware that the culprit commands Sith powers that can cloud their minds and misdirect their attacks–and even turn them back on themselves.
As Luke and Ben Skywalker struggle to find their place among the chaos, Jacen, shunned by friends and family, launches an invasion to rescue the only person still loyal to him. But with the battle raging on, and the galaxy growing more turbulent and riotous, there’s no question that it is Jacen who is most wanted: dead or alive.
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 Fury signifying nothing February 5, 2008
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
After two volumes filled with major events, The Legacy of the Force series returns to form in this seventh installment. For the most part, you could skip it and not miss much.
While author Aaron Allston delivers a well-plotted and fast-paced finale, the ending leaves the story right where it began, with Jacen politically and militarily isolated and seemingly finished. The promise of a helping hand from Korriban, hinted at the end of the previous volume, turns out to be a feint, and no one has yet figured out Jacen is a Sith or Mara's killer.
Neither have they figured out that he's lost all sense of proportion. In order to bring the Hapans back into the war for the Galactic Alliance, Jacen kidnaps his own daughter. The Hapans instead withdraw from any outside contact except for a secret mission to the Jedi, who devise a rather improbable mission to plant on Jacen's body a tracer housed in a tiny piece of cloth the same color and texture as his clothing. They can thereby track Jacen's whereabouts and eventually effect a rescue - but only so long as Jacen doesn't change his clothes.
As in Allston's previous volume, Exile, Jacen walks into an obvious trap, this time set up by the Corellians to fry his fleet using Centerpoint Station, implausibly revived after being scrapped by Ben and Jacen in Betrayal (also by Allston). While the as yet unannounced Sith Lord loiters in space waiting for Centerpoint to complete its firing sequence, he allows his mother to come aboard "to talk." Instead of throwing her in the brig, the pair chat away the minutes while the Corellians take aim and the stowaways on Leia's craft pilfer data from Jacen's computers. The entire sequence comprises a long list of contrivances that make you want to give up on the book altogether.
Meantime, in an asteroid field far away, Jaina, Jag and Zekk prepare for a final showdown with Alema Rar, who is also being hunted by a Sith from Korriban eager to retrieve purloined Sith artifacts. Among them is Ship, which in the ensuing chaos flees to the Sith homeworld of Ziost, the Korriban agent in pursuit.
Along the way two major Jedi sustain life-threatening injury, but miraculously live to fight another day. A last-minute method for destroying Centerpoint Station is discovered, and Jacen can manage to kill only a Jedi-newbie and one of his subordinates, proving that he's not such a bad-ass after all and continuing the devolution of his character from a villain who reluctantly took up the dark arts in an effort to save and protect society, to a blinkered madman divorced from any rational view of the universe.
My best guess is that the next volume won't advance the series much further, though we're likely to get some interesting material on Boba Fett.
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The downward spiral continues... November 29, 2007
21 out of 34 found this review helpful
First of all, allow me to apologize to Troy Denning for my review of the last offering in this series, "Inferno". I was under the impression that the prior book was a momentary lapse in judgment for the direction of the series. Apparently what has happened is that the writers got together and panicked because they had actually written a believable, almost sympathetic character in Jacen Solo in the early books and needed some way to eliminate his humanity so that the reader wouldn't feel remorse when he likely gets bumped off later in the series.
Indeed, those of us living in grown up land realize that the world can sometimes be shades of gray, and the lines of good and evil are not as sharply drawn as we would like. Indeed, this is how Jacen first started on his path as a Sith Lord, hoping to use the teachings of the Sith without being evil. Indeed, the best of intentions and constant desire to do what was necessary - not out of malice or spite - just necessity in doing what was needed for the galaxy to be safe.
Now that Jacen has become Darth NastyEvil, all common sense has been thrown under the writer's feet, and every opportunity is taken for Jacen to come across as a psychopathic schizophrenic emo nut case.
Jacen: "I love my daughter and want to be with her."
** two pages later **
Jacen: "If you don't do what I want I'll kill my daughter!"
** ten pages later **
Jacen: "OH NOES! They are shooting at me and my daughter is with me! I'm so angry at them because I love her!"
The Star Wars that we "know and love" is back, with an out of control dictator using force-choke to kill subordinates, planet-destroying super weapons, and more cliches than you can shake a lightsaber at.
Yep, I must applaud the writers for taking this direction in such an "original" direction and reviving my interest in the EU. What really makes me upset is the potential this series had, and the sharp outline they decided to follow.
I can't wait for the next book by Mrs. Karen "Boba Fett takes up 2/3 of the book even though the other writers barely mention him!" Traviss. The preview at the end of Fury was priceless - Jaina thinks it might be too hard to fight Jacen with a lightsaber so the story of the book follows her having Boba Fett teach her how to hunt Jedi. Way to fit him into a story he doesn't belong in.
I.Am.Not.Kidding.
If you haven't started this series, I'd recommend against it because after book 4 or 5 things start to go downhill.
 A worthwhile read! November 29, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Aaron Allston does a great job in the 7th installment of the Legacy of the Force series. Above all else, he has crafted a well-paced novel with action and events spread out evenly. For those readers who want a build-up and big finish, this book is probably going to disappoint you. The last sequence is supposed to sound important, but I didn't get the feeling like anything was resolved by destroying something epic.
We also get to see some fringe charaters from Allston's previous book, and some good old charaters from...Allston's previous X-Wing books. However, this book is nothing like his previous work, with the exception of some good old pilots humor. It really broke the tension when people starting making jokes, thanks!
IF I liked this book so much, why only 4 stars? Well, because as the series progesses, I find it more and more ridiculous. Jacen seems a lot like the bad guy on every cartoon show, he always gets away...but just barely. Luke is torn emotionally, which is understandable, but it's hard to read...but not as hard as "Children of the Jedi".
Of course if your a fan, you'll enjoy the lightsaber duels, space battles, and plot deveolopment...but the more this series lingers on, the more I grow tired of it.
Perhaps in the next arc, we can have the bad guy go down in book 6, and use the next 3 books to deal with the aftermath....kinda more realistic.
But who am I kidding? If I wanted realistic, I would read something else.
 same old boring storylines again November 29, 2007
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
What would it take for the star wars authors to give a different spin on any star wars series . One wants the know how the Sith ever got to be in power for more than a year. With the ever powerful Luke, Leia and Han ,why even develop an antagonist in any series you know how it will end before you start to read any series. They had Thrawn , now Jacen and they will kill him off in one series as well and not let him be developed as an interesting and powerful character.
Why are the bad guys always stupid by the end of every series they ever write. For once give us something different do not insult us with the same old stuff and show everyone that the Sith are actually something that are a real threat to the star wars universe.
 Bitterly Disappointing November 30, 2007
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
Sadly this turned out to be another book about Han, Leia and all the old folks that have become so routine. Their dialogue is one dimensional, their quips predictable, and **yawn** not a single Jedi Master dies. Kyle takes a lightsaber through the chest. Does he die? No! He miraculously survives. Saba gets blown to bits. Does she die? No! She limps away. The great Sith Lord just can't seem to kill anyone but a scrawny newbie jedi and his own subordinates. No force lightning, no awesome Sith Lord kicking tail, just trusty Han with his good ol' blaster; firing away before his brain can even register what happened. Dang he's good.
There is no tension in the latest books in the series because we know the authors refuse to kill more of the old characters. I am growing so tired of buying a book I think is about the rise of a clever Sith, and end up reading about the invincible good guys. You know, the ones who butcher anyone stupid enough to disagree with their views, send friends on suicide missions and betray their homelands all in the name of the Light-side of the Force.
What happened to Caedus? He was so clever, so in control. Now he's a loser; tricked, decieved and out manouvered by a gang of self-righteous grandparents. The first few books tricked me into thinking we might have a grown-up book about a credible Sith. What we got was the same old hash.
Caedus is turning into a flat character, another psychopathic Palpatine. What happened to the Caedus that embraced the Dark-side for the good of the galaxy? I didn't count the pages that were devoted to this character I was begining to enjoy, but it wouldn't have taken me long. I don't think the author knows who he is. He certainly loves to write pages and pages about Leia and Han; Grandma and Grandpa save the day. Hurrah.
Coming up next, a book about Boba Fett disguised as a book about a Sith Lord. What was his name again?
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