[Doelago]

Ok, here we go, my first ever book review! Just as a note before I start, the version of the book I am reviewing is the junior novelization, so dont get confused if I say something that differs from the other version...

Review: Star Wars the Clone Wars

"NOBATA BARGON! EECHUTA ROTTA ME PEEDUNKEE MUFKIN WAJEEKEE!"
―Jabba the Hutt

War has spread chaos across the galaxy, and Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker find themselves leading a massive clone army into battle against Count Dooku and his Separatist Alliance. On the planet of Tatooine, deep in the Outer Rim of the galaxy, crime lord Jabba the Hutt's son has been kidnapped. To gain the Hutt's allegiance, an advantage over Dooku, the Jedi have agreed to find and rescue Jabba's son.




This book was something I had high hopes for, as it was the novelization of one of my favorite movies, but in the end, I found it a little bit laking...

I will try to give you a basic concept of the plot. (Or should I just say: Warning! The whole frigging plot of the book is detailed in the following section if you press the "Click Here" button... You have been warned...)

The book follows the story of the movie quite accurately, almost perfectly you could say, as it does not differ from it in almost any way... It starts of like the movie, with just a small prologue at the start, and it jumps almost right away to Christophsis, a planet under attack from the Separatist alliance, and where the Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are fighting a desperate battle against the Separatists. The Clone army manages to push the first wave of droids into retreat, and just as they do so, a republic shuttle lands and out of it comes Ahsoka Tano, who becomes Anakins padawan against his own will. Then the second wave of droids come, this time protected by a heavy shield that the republic canons can not penetrate. While the clones are trying to keep the droids at bay, Anakin and Ahsoka go on a mission to destroy the shield generator. Quite a lot of arguing later they destroy it, and the republic wins just as reinforcements arrive.

The Jedi dont get any time to celebrate and are thrown straight onto a new mission. Not they are to find and rescue Jabba the Hutts son. They arrive to the world Teth. There the clone army starts an assault against an Confederacy held monastry. The republic troops take it after a brief fight, but they suffered heavy losses as several AT-TE walkers, along with several clone troopers got killed while climbing up the cliff where the fortress was located.

Soon Anakin and Ahsoka find Rotta, Jabbas son, and when they are about to leave, things get complicated. Separatist reinforcements arrive, and they are forced to withdraw into the fortress. They have a short fight with Ventress before escaping. Obi-Wan finally gets to Teth with republic reinforcements, and they start planet fall. Soon Obi-Wan gets his feet stuck in the mud and starts fighting Ventress. Anakin and Ahsoka find a empty cargo ship called "Twilight" and fly away from the surface of the planet.

On Tatoine things have also gotten complicated. Count Dooku has convinced Jabba that the Jedi where to ones that had kidnapped his son, and that they were now on their way to kill Jabba. Jabba gets angry and Dooku promises him that he will take care of the Jedi.

The Twilight gets chased by some droids and when it trues to dock on the republic ship the hangar it was about to enter exploded. They have enter hyperspace by themselves.

When they arrive to Tatoine, they get shot down by Magnaguard starfighters and crash land.

On Coruscant Padme goes over to Ziro the Hutts "house", and tries t convince him that the Jedi where not behind the kidnapping. It is revealed that Ziro was part of the plot started by Dooku, and Padme is captured. She manges to call for aid, and soon after that clone troopers under the command of Commander Fox storm the building and capture Ziro.

Anakin fights Dooku, while Ahsoka is ambushed by Magnaguards. Anakin escapes Dooku on a speeder and gets to Jabbas fortress. There he and Jabba are shouting at each other when Ashoka comes in and gives Jabba his son. Padme contacts the hutt that is about to kill the two Jedis and everyone gets happy when an alliance is declared between the Republic and the Hutt.

Best moment: When Captain Rex tricks the droids to believe that they are outnumbered even though there were only ca. 5 clones and over fifty droids.

Worst moment: There were several, but one that really annoyed me was at the beginning, the battle for Christophsis, and that was mainly because there was barely any clone action, even though there was plenty in the movie.

Favorite Character: Captain Rex...

Least favorite character: I have to say that Ziro the Hutt was, cause he threw forth such a bad show in the book...

Best thing with the book: The pictures in the middle of it, just cause they broke up the bullshit that was going on...

Worst thing with the book: The fact that it is almost all the time seen from Anakins and Ahsokas point of view, there was barely a page from the clones point of view...

What I would have wanted to see: I would have wanted to read about more clone action, for there was barely any in the whole book!

Overall rating: 8.3 out of 10

The book did a good job at keeping up with the story of the movie, and I know that it was the Junior Novelization, but still, they should have included more clone action, and that alone would have made me give it a 9 to it...


Any feed back is welcome, and also, do you want more reviews like this? Thanks for reading and may the force be with you!


Edit: Sorry, Spoiler tag added...

 

[Commissar Ploss]

I'd be happy if you hadn't given the book away... I'll elaborate further after i return from work today.

CP