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    Conquest: Star Wars Legends: Edge of Victory, Book I

    By Greg Keyes

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    The dazzling Star Wars space adventure continues in The New Jedi Order as Luke Skywalker, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, and others battle their deadliest enemy in a tale of nonstop action, shadowy evil, and spectacular triumph . . .

    No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown, Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi. Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible danger–and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin system–and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind.

    At Luke Skywalker’s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.

    When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends . . .

    Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJun 28, 2011
    ISBN9780307795540
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    Conquest: Star Wars Legends: Edge of Victory, Book I
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    Greg Keyes

    Born in Meridian, Mississippi, Greg Keyes has published more than thirty books, including The Basilisk Throne, The Age of Unreason, and The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, also writing books for Babylon 5, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, The Avengers, and Pacific Rim, and novelizing Interstellar and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. He lives, writes, fences and cooks in Savannah, Georgia. He is found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/greg.keyes1.

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    • 4/5
      A solid piece of work from Greg Keyes: he keeps up the pace of action while still working in lots of good exposition. Anakin Solo is the focus of the book, seeking to rescue a childhood friend who has been captured by the Yuuzhan Vong. Good plot, good characterization, and actual sympathetic characters among the Yuuzhan Vong, who are often treated as mere caricatures in these books.
    • 4/5
      One of the things that I initially really liked about the NJO series is that the Yuuzhon Vong were completely and utterly alien - that we weren't given any real introduction to them, and didn't know what they wanted. While that was good for the initial novels, it wouldn't be sustainable over the course of the full cycle of novels, so the Edge Of Victory duology comes at a perfect moment.Basically, with this book, we learn a lot more about the culture of the Vong, and we explore how the Jedi are affecting the Vong. I'm always hesitant when sci-fi stories feature 'warrior cultures', so it's good to see that they have a more varied culture than that (because let's be honest, a culture devoted entirely to warfare would be unsustainable, and would also never develop proper spaceflight technology, as well). The only downside to this book, I would say, is that the Vong biotechnology is a little too deus ex machina - it seems that they can grow whatever they need, whenever they need it, and that reduces some of the tension from the story.
    • 3/5
      Stuck on Yavin 4 while trying to rescue the Jedi academy students, Anakin succeeds in getting most of them out of the system - all except his best friend Tahiri. Captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, Tahiri has fallen into the hands of heretics determined to remake her into a Yuuzhan Vong, unless Anakin can reach her in time to save her identity. A short but fun novel.
    • 4/5
      The invading Yuuzhan Vong have come to realize the threat the Jedi represent to their plans, and have demanded that all Jedi be captured and turned over to them. The students at the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 are in danger, and Anakin Skywalker sets off against orders on an immediate rescue mission. The threat to the academy materializes and Anakin finds himself stranded on the Vong-occupied moon with his best friend Tahiri a captive.A strong entry in The New Jedi Order series. It is mostly focused on a single storyline which is better than the scattered plots of some of the other books. It is also interesting to have some development of an Expanded Universe character instead of just dealing with the characters from the movies.
    • 4/5
      This is among the best of the NJO books, perhaps SW books in general.When the Solo kids first started playing major roles in the Expanded Universe, such as in the Jedi Academy series or the Corellian trilogy, I usually rolled my eyes at the ridiculous situations they found themselves in and even solved as children (Jedi or not). Now that they're in their later teens, I can relish the roles they're taking on. This book focuses mainly on Anakin Solo, and I think Keyes does a very nice job with him as a character at this stage of life - powerful, raw, uncertain. This, I think, is the Anakin Skywalker we all wanted to see.I also like that we get a glimpse into Yuuzhan Vong culture beyond that of the warriors, and get a sense of them as individuals rather than just a mindless mass of violence. Finally we have an author who gives them some depth. I really dig the story surrounding their shapers and the protocols they must follow - it reminds me of medieval times when monks were proprietors of medical "knowledge" and treating patients with more scientific methods was considered heresy, even when it worked. Nice touch, that.I still think there's way too much deliberation on the nature and intent of the Force. Some of it plays into the story, but mostly it's just blather. I think there's a time and a place for that sort of thing, and in another, quieter type of novel it would be interesting. But this is a war story, and all this quibbling over what should and should not be done with the Force just seems like (and probably is nothing more than) a way to stretch out the story so it encompasses more books.
    • 3/5
      Another solid book in the series. It's fun to be in the Star Wars universe.