Fury

Action packed from start to finish this is a great installment in the legacy of the force star wars book series.

Jedi embark on a 3 fold mission. Ending jacen solos reign, rescue of alana solo and destruction of the dreaded centrepoint station.

Everyone is filled with fury as this book is aptly named and well done. I really enjoyed it

Sadly, this is one that kinda didn't do it for me.

Whilst having its moments, again focused too much (for me) on a lot of the starfighter stuff, and we spent an odd amount of time with the Confederation and the Galactic Alliance, rather than with our main heroes or villains.

Alema's story has finally come to an end, but I am none-the-wiser on the Sith here, and feel they could do with a bit more of an explanation. I'm very confused on who they are!

And I struggled with the pacing a little. I must admit this book bored me at points and I ended up skimming lots of sections enough to get through them without missing important details.

It is always nice to see characters like Wedge and Tycho, but beyond starfighter stuff, there wasn't a whole lot going on with them. I'm yet to really become attached to Syal Antilles, so a lot of this stuff just missed for me. I'm not even entirely what happened to Tycho by the end as I lost interest and felt very braindead reading it.

There were some good bits, such as Luke, Saba, and Ben's attack on Jacen, whilst it led to nowhere, and I was very happy to have Allana returned to Tenel Ka, and away from Jacen.

I do feel very sorry for Allana throughout the book, and I actually do care about her and Tenel Ka, and her finding out her father is Jacen is quite a sad moment. I do actually pity Jacen quite a lot in these moments.

Jacen would definitely disappoint Vergere, and maybe even Lumiya, as he is succumbing to his hate, killing an innocent Liutennant, and is also constructing a red lightsaber! Tahiri is under his control pretty much fully now, but we have barely seen her doing anything really.

I liked how much Kyle Katarn was in the book, and he got to fight Jacen which was pretty cool, even if he didn't win, he put up a good fight and nearly died. I'm glad Kyle survived because it would've been a pretty anti-climactic death.

Even though Alema has steadily become more and more annoying, I actually felt sad when she died. She said “remember”, and Jag (who strangled her to death) saw her when she was young and beautiful, which is all she has wanted since becoming deformed. I felt very sorry for her there. Her death is brutal, her arm being blown up by Jag, and then strangled.

It certainly wasn't a bad book, but wasn't one I found very interesting. I'll say it was good, but just not for me really, and I found it a bit of a struggle to get through. By that, I mean I was forcing myself to finish it really.

An awesome cover and some great moments for Ben and Luke, Allston writes characters superbly, but the story just didn't have enough going for me to really enjoy it at all.

A good entry but one that I didn't love.

7/10