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Allegiance (Star Wars (Del Rey)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Zahn
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 36912
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0345477391
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345477392
ASIN: 0345477391
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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 It aint the 'Thrawn Trilogy' thats for sure!!! May 24, 2008
Mando'ade Lee (Norfolk, UK)
As the previous reviewer stated, anyone who's enjoyed Timothy Zahns previous work will be left scratching their head in bewilderment.
I like many SW fans was thrilled with the Thrawn Trilogy and thought them most worthy of a place in the Star Wars galaxy. This offering however is sadly not.
The general premise sounded promising and I enjoyed the story of the Rogue stormtroopers, unfortunately that was as good as it got. Han grumbles his way through the story like a young Victor Meldrew clone and Luke has all the boyish charm and ability of a manaquin. That coupled with the fact Vader is made to look inept and Mara Jade is some sort of Jedi Master who is more powerful in this book than at any other stage in her life, made for a really sluggish read.
In the few pages she appeared, Leia was more like her true character but that did nothing to save the book.
In summary: A dissapointing offering from an author capable of so much more.
 Disappointing doesn't begin to describe it. April 25, 2007
Patch (UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can I say? If Zahn didn't want to write a book about the original Star Wars characters then he should have just said no.
As an original fan of the original films, I was looking forward to an all-too-rare outing of characters, themes and motivations in keeping with the films.
As it is we have this sad affair of far too many secondary characters and a suspiciously non-Star Wars plot shoehorned into the Star Wars mould with a plethora of pointless, skip-read 'alien' names like Ydor Vokkoli and Yeeru Chivkrie.
All the characters are annoyingly split up into separate plotlines and the machinations used to bring them all together hardly sparkle. Han and Luke are particularly flat, Han being so annoyingly moody that he may be the first man ever with PMT and Luke so dense it's a wonder he manages to get his boots on the right feet in a morning. Their only saving grace is that they were hardly in the book anyway.
Mara Jade on the other hand seems to be half a step short of a Jedi Master and based on this, if they'd just sent her to Endor then the Empire would still be in full-swing.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if I found out that this book was only outlined by Zahn and polished by a ghost writer- in fact I'd kinda like to think that anyway!
Nobody particularly does anything, nothing particularly happens and it limps into an ending so lacklustre that I honestly put the book down for about three weeks before I bothered to finish it.
Having stormtroopers in something doesn't make it Star Wars. If you want a good Star Wars read, then look elsewhere. If you want a good Tim Zahn read then look elsewhere. Basically, look elsewhere.
 good but not the best zahn novel February 2, 2007
G. Puxley (cambridge, england)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
If your a star wars fan or not i think you will enjoy this novel. But the one problem is it deosnt seem to add much to the star wars universe. Firstly the current legacy series is 40 years in the future from the moment where this novel is set. But saying that the book has got great action and makes you realise how characters develop on both sides. I think including the rogue stormtroopers the hand of judgement was good as it tells you us how really human stormtroopers are under that uniform. Another good thing was how the relationship between mara jade and darth vader played out, it was not quiet what you would expect. On a whole this novel pressed the right buttons.
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