Thrawn: Treason

3.5.

This book is alright. It's better than Alliances but way worse than the first book in the series. Thrawn essentially has to share his story here with Eli Vanto. Vanto is a great character and I'm happy to see him return but his lack of interaction with Thrawn is disappointing. Vanto's relationship with the Chiss borders on interesting but I feel like the Chiss are being hyped up with very little tangible information given about them. There's a lot of setup but little pay off.

The overall plot of Thrawn being played by Tarkin and Krennic is interesting and shows how intelligent Thrawn is through his utter dedication to detail and data. However Ronan is a terrible character and mostly acts as the audience who constantly challenges Thrawn for no reason beyond ‘that's not what I would do!”

The space battles are fine but the stakes are so low I feel it doesn't really matter. I don't really care about Chiss girls being enslaved so why should I care about these minor skirmishes? Thrawn versus Savit was a cool battle but ultimately it was inevitable nobody was going to die so the stakes were low and inconsequential.

Zahn wrote a story here that doesn't really matter. So the book as a whole while decently written is irrelevant.