Star Wars Legacy of the Force Invincible OUT TODAY!! May 13, 2008
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Finally it’s here!! The final book in the Star Wars Legacy of the Force series is out!
We’ve had some really healthy discussion about this for months on this site and there are heated opinions all around.
For now though I’m personally going to savor every page and take some time to read this final episode in this series.
For better or for worse Legacy of the Force has been a VERY eventful series, splitting the Galaxy, families and fans alike.
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Now I know what the Mara Jade fans felt with here death…….Why build the character up for a series just to let him…..I really…..and the next series?……please, the origins of the Falcon? So very disappointing….Gee thanks for the great series….I hope your pockets are lined nice and fat. Thanks for duping the fans, and thanks for ruining a great series…..why go through with a contest to name the next Sith Lord just too……WOW. Not amazing at all. You all ( Del Ray or whoever approved this Kriffing out come ) had a bunch of new fans just to sell and now..well….. WOW….
The only think good to come from this series was Karen Traviss and the way she wrote Lord Caedus and also the development of the Mando’s…I cna’t see what is soooo great about Denning..I just don’t see it. The series has been ruined! Completly and utterly. What the …… were these people in charge thinking?? WHAT! Shottie, unimanginative fools the lot! Excluding Traviss…somewhat….
This last book proved without a doubt that the books are NOT for the fans, that in fact, there for the puplishers to make dough. Caedus in the begining of this book was well writen..he’s seemed to not to be on the rise to make the same mistakes as other sith before him….and new future for the Sith could have been born through Caedus as he himself could have lead the charge for change in the future. He had a more paitient control and used it to control the Moffs…Denning and anyone else involved in this last book have failed everyone, except of course, the publishers…..to have a series that has taken out so many key characters just to have the series end in such a way is..foolish, selfish, inconcistant, thoughless, unimaginative…way to ruin a great series…way to destroy the reason for so many reader to turn pages…and then we read about the origins of the Millinium Falcon???!!! What? Oh geeezzzzz. I’m going to be hard pressed to read the rest of INVINCABLE but, since I can’t take it back, I’ll most likely finish it…..reluctanly….It’s obvouse that these forun are not getting read, if they were, they would have learned there lesson with the outragethe of Mara Jade Skywalker. No faith is left for me in these novels. Del Ray…wow… may the world boycot your next series….please…we must teach them a lesson.
Oh yeah…and don’t think that I didn’t get the fact that Lord Caedus did succeed. He saw the future and Allana was well and safe. That’s excaclty what Caedus wanted: to make the galaxy safe for his girl and other like her and I feel he did just that, but, the point that I wanted to make was that we wanted more of Caedus. Caedus as a ruler! For another series. Not to be killed of and then ambiguously have the auther imply that he has don what he was set out to do. Denning and the rest could have put more heart into this series….too much left unsaid…disapointing…very disapointing!
Denning rushed the killing of caedus. They rushed the killing of Anakin in NJO. Why build up such great charecters to kill them premature to say the least. I like Luke from what I gather the rest of you dont feel the same, but I swear if i read one more book where that geezer han solo is flying around saving the day with his solo luck i will scream. thoughts please.
Kenobi went out and lived as a hermit, Yoda went and lived in a swamp; Luke running around being the only one who is really Invincible is getting tiresome. Frankly I’d rather read ancillary stories such as the X-wing series with non force using characters than read another “Luke Skywalker rends the fabric of time and space by loosing a squeaker in the bathtub” story. The only thing he hasn’t done is fly out to the edges of the universe and set it spinning in the opposite direction to turn back time….
I sincerely hope that Lucasbooks gives this license to someone else at the end of this year. Del Rey has proven that they care nothing about their subjects or their readers; only their bottom line. I would have been happier if they had just put “STAR WARS” at the top of the cover and jammed the whole thing full of old Reader’s Digest articles, it couldn’t possibly have been any worse.
Another thing with this book was that there was no emotion. No emotional scene. Jaina wasn’t even crying or anything when she killed her brother. evil or not, its going to break your heart to kill him. But denning had nothing. And why did denning make Caedus really dumb at the end? He wrote him good in the beginning of the novel, then every chapter he was getting worse.
I mean, Caedus dies basically because Jaina snuck up on him and put a lightsaber right through him. Hey denning, you are so smart. that is the best way ever that a “hero” beat a “villian.” How did you come up with that? wow! I mean come on seriously, anything would be better than that. There was no epic battle, no emotion, just tip toe up to someone and stab them in the back. And basically both the twin fights were one-sided with Jaina kicking all the ass. What??? She even cut off his arm in the first fight, then totally whips him in the second. Thank god he had force lightening or he wouldn’t have even scratched her. HE WAS A SITH LORD, not a JEDI PADAWAN. in the back of the book it said one of the greatest sith lords of all time. What a joke. Caedus wasn’t even close. Could have been but writers didn’t want him to be. Guess that’s why he always lost in every book. I mean they couldn’t even have him “win” to make him more powerful.
When he got his arm cut off, I thought that denning might be going for a vader like transformation with at least Caedus living. You guys probably read my luke comments on the other site. So sick of that guy now too. PLease—Write his death ASAP!
I was talking about that with a mate of mine the other day who was reading these. Every time there was a fight he lost; despite his “Sith Battle Meditation” he continually got most of his ships blown apart in one way or another. Every time he fought with the jedi he lost. Either from being made to look the fool (usually with that annoying illusion stuff) or outright got his ass beaten, once by a recently released torture victim who sneaked up on him while he was in the process of strangling the galaxy’s most powerful man. Too bad Luke didn’t “train” with some Mandalorians or he could have ended it right there…
Talking about Jaina training with mandalorians, she didn’t even need too. She used nothing but force stuff, nothing mado, while fighting Caedus. So her training was nothing except for traviss to write in mando’s. Another bad thing about the series. And the writers writing in the Korriban sith just told us that basically Caedus had no shot of winning. The more I reflect on the series it is just poorly written.
Why kill off so many characters, especially good guy ones, if the series was going to play out the way it did and have a “good” ending. You would think it was accumilating because they were going for the “dark” ending, but apparently not. They made Caedus a lackluster sith with a weak, dull apprentice. At least it might have been desent if caedus’ apprentice was evil and full of ambition, lived and been the villian for the next series. Maybe Caedus’ legacy could have lived through the apprentice, if he actually had one that wanted to be a sith.