Customer Reviews
A fair transition
Star Wars Recovery is a tag-a-long for the book Star by Star, published by the same author, Troy Denning. It is a good e-book to read, but you will need to read several other books from the New Jedi Order Series to understand what is going on.
The story takes place shortly after Balance Point, in which Leia is seriously wounded. Han takes her to Corellia, where she is admitted to a Bacta ward and is treated.
Along the story, we meet a group of Barbels, all of whom are Jedi, that play a prominent role in Star by Star. This is a good introduction for the characters, because in SbS, they sort of appear. Also in the story is the Solos finding more about Viqi Shesh and her corruption and collaboration with the Yuuzahn Vong. Han and Leia piece together evidence, such as an assasination attempt, CorDuro shipping & their collaboration with the Vong, and Viqi's interest in finding the Solos.
Denning throws some good fights in, when the Bacta ward is attacked and a cloud car chase.
So, overall, a good read for Star Wars fans, and one that provides some backround information on everything that is going on. The only problems are factual, such as CorSec, which had been eliminated years before, replaced by another group, and the part when Han takes on his temporary co-pilot, which seemed a little too trusting on his part and is not like him.
A short story that's worth the time and money
This is my first experience with Microsoft Reader. I thought it was great! I made the font larger, pulled a nice recliner over in front of the monitor, and had no trouble reading the story in one sitting. It's quite easy to work with, and the price was not really that expensive. Granted, you might be able to get much more story in most ebooks for the same money, but this was the only media that the story was available in. It was also a very fast way to acquire the story. The story takes some interesting turns and nicely brings some other plot lines back together. I liked the new Jedi characters that were introduced, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with them in future installments of the overall story. A worthy effort on the part of Troy Denning, and most people who are still reading the Yuuzhan Vong stories by this point are likely to appreciate this part. And, if you've never tried an ebook, take a chance. You'll probably be pleasantly surprised.
This whole EBook thing is really bad. Not Recommended.
First, when you purchase this Electronic book, your order is not processed until the next day so do not expect to download it until the next day. Second, you have to download this Acrobat Reader thing and if you already have the full Adobe Acrobat, you still have to download and install the reader program or you cannot download the book from the website. Third, you cannot print the book or even copy it into a word processor to print it. What good is it then? How am I supposed to read it? I certainly cannot read it here on my laptop screen! The book is 97 pages (Minus the copyright-coverpages etc.) in 8 chapters. Not long enough for the 3 bucks I had to pay for it in my opinion. About the book itself? I don't know. Until I can figure out how to print the frickin thing, I won't be able to read it to review it. But in all honesty, even if it turned out to be the best book in the entire world, I will still never buy another EBook again. This whole EBook thing is pretty stupid. Why in the world can I not print the thing? How do they expect me to read it if I can't print it? Do they expect me to go out and spend a few hundred bucks on a Palm computer thing just to read a book? I don't think so! Never again. I think I just wasted 3 bucks.
