One of Daala's big features is trying to take out the Jedi, so I can see why. Especially toss in that she was a 'hard woman making hard decisions' when she did the legit cool moment of wiping out the squabbling warlords.
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One of Daala's big features is trying to take out the Jedi, so I can see why. Especially toss in that she was a 'hard woman making hard decisions' when she did the legit cool moment of wiping out the squabbling warlords.
RogueIce
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I only read the first two and then the one with Boba Fett and thought they were ok, but not great. And who knows how much of that was his wife I'll say 90% just because
Well to be fair, I never made it much past the Bantam Era TBH, aside from the handful of novels from authors I already liked (Allston's Mercy Kill and everything by Zahn) so really KJA stays in the negatives mostly because of that. Of course I know all about Traviss, and actually read Order 66 so she's definitely at the bottom, with the dreck that was both TFU tie-in novels (barely) above that - but I don't know what was the author or how much was LucasArts being wankers as far as all that went.
So from my (very limited) sample pool, KJA is third worst. Well, fourth worst because The Crystal Star was a special kind of Hell to read, but she only did the one book while KJA did several so...
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Lost Tribe of the Sith is some of the best late-era EU stuff.
And Knight Errant, as mentioned upthread, is really quite awesome. It and it's comic are some of the only late new sith war stuff- the only things late in New Sith Wars but still awhile pre-Bane- and it makes the era fascinating.
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Oh I loved the Lost Tribe of The Sith. At least until the introduction of Vestra Khai
I think they worked well as villains, too. Instead of being a new super-powerful sith threat that's supposed to threaten Luke somehow, it's a whole bunch of Sith... and due to being isolated, they *aren't* as strong, their best people are good fights for Luke's council but not him. And then there's the Abeloth situation which means the Jedi can't truly focus on them and to put a potential trump card in the mix.
Of the three Del Ray big arc villains they ended up the most solid.
Of the three Del Ray big arc villains they ended up the most solid.
Ser_Serendipity
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Excellent teenage memory: reading about Luke using a high-ranking Lost Sith with a pretentious title as a blunt weapon to beat another one down.
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Well honestly what actually beat the Vong at least by plot was the Mandolrians and their crushgauntlets
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I'm of two minds about her character.
1. Yeah, the concept seems kind of Twilighty and shit, and she's pretty blatantly an attempt to give Ben a Mara Jade.
2. On the other hand her concept could have been really interesting if it goes into nature vs nuture with the concept of a Sith society that no one has any choice but to be born into and to do something halfway OT-ish with the concept of redemption.
The main problem with the execution is that it was incredibly inconsistent, to the point that it felt like two of the writers were actively fighting over what direction to take her character. Only Aaron Allston even tried to give a smarter, empathetic take on her character that wasn't mired in gendered bullshit. And that was for one book.
Also, HOLY SHIT CHRISTIE GOLDEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WHAT THE FUCK WERE THINKING WHEN YOU WROTE ASCENSION. I gotta go dig up some of the reactions to "that" scene. You know what I'm talking about.
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It's almost as bad as Red Harvest. God now I need to wash my mouth out with soap.
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What scene?
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I mean, it's Aaron Allston though. Of course he'd be the one actually making an effort.
/Fan of his X-Wing stuff.
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You know, sentimentally speaking my favorite SW book series is the YJK, but God DAMN do I love those X-wing books. 
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You know, sentimentally speaking my favorite SW book series is the YJK, but God DAMN do I love those X-wing books.
I love them, though my favorite might actually be one that I've shilled before that most people haven't read. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.
By this point I almost feel like Starlord telling people its name.
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RogueIce
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That's the one with Scout, right? Who from what I've heard had a really great character arc with Yoda which Traviss proceeded to shit all over at the end of Order 66 to make her a Mando because Mandos Stronk?I love them, though my favorite might actually be one that I've shilled before that most people haven't read. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.
By this point I almost feel like Starlord telling people its name.
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Yes. It also had a good character arc for Whie and also Yoda and Count Dooku as well.
Just really good character, story, and thematic work through the entire book.
CommanderBlade
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God why does everything come back to Travis and her Mando's.
tankdrop24
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It's not our fault she keep making everything about them.
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It's like a whirlpool of suck/hate. It all circles back to her, because she tried to make it all about her snowflakes.
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Mandalorians in general are an example of what's wrong with the EU -- one interesting background character gets a whole species filled with people identitcal to whoever appeared in the movies, and that stereotype then appears everywhere.
That's hardly unique to her Star Wars writing and the Mandalorians, anyone similar enough to them in a franchise she's writing for gets treated like them.
