Star Wars Red Harvest (Audible Audio Edition) Joe Schreiber John Glover Random House Audio Books
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The era of the Old Republic is a dark and dangerous time, as Jedi Knights valiantly battle the Sith Lords and their ruthless armies. But the Sith have disturbing plans - and none more so than the fulfillment of Darth Scabrous's fanatical dream, which is about to become nightmarish reality.
Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps - young Jedi whose abilities have not proved up to snuff - Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous. For the rare black orchid that she has nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire.
But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen virus that's worse than fatal - it doesn't just kill, it transforms. Now the rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a bloodthirsty hunger for all things living - and commanded by a Sith Master with an insatiable lust for power and the ultimate prize immortality... no matter the cost.
Star Wars Red Harvest (Audible Audio Edition) Joe Schreiber John Glover Random House Audio Books
Darth Scabrous has uncovered a Sith holocron with the key to unlocking immortality. The last piece he needs to unlock it's power is quite unusual, a very rare black orchid and a young member of the Jedi Agricultural Corps who tends it. However, unleashing the power of immortality has a surprise that even Darth Scabrous is not ready for. The virulent concoction he creates using the black orchid gets out of his control and begins turning an entire academy of Sith masters and students into something worse...This novel (and I'm using that term loosely here, it's really more of a novella at a full novel price...) is fast paced and exciting but also fairly deficient in several areas. The most glaring was that it's just not very "Star Wars-y." Sure, there are Sith and Jedi but beyond a very thin coat of Star Wars paint, this could be any action-oriented zombie novel. This isn't necessarily a bad thing - the action scenes are well done and author Joe Schreiber builds a relentless pace that comes to a satisfying ending - it's just a feeling that this novel was written to capitalize on the big zombie craze and then stuffed into the Old Republic era because that's where it wouldn't do any cononical damage.
Point of view characters are thin and die with such regularity that there's no character development and other than Darth Scabrous little to nothing is known about other characters, especially the Sith apprentices, so they're "Redshirt" level expendable anyway. As a stand-alone Old Republic novel, this isn't a bad book. If you're looking for an action story with light sabers and occasional Jedi vs Sith stuff thrown in, look no further. If you're looking for something even a little bit cerebral, you can skip this one.
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Star Wars Red Harvest (Audible Audio Edition) Joe Schreiber John Glover Random House Audio Books Reviews
Star Wars plus zombies should equal awesome right? Wrong. I've tried it twice now with Death Troopers and Red Harvest. I didn't like Death Troopers but since this novel involved the pre-Rule of Two Sith I thought I'd give it a shot. Problem is there are better Sith novels in the SW universe than this one and certainly better zombie novels out there.
I won't go back over what's already been said by better reviewers than me but I feel I have to mention two things that without spoiling anything should show you how awful this concoction is.
At one point the quasi-Jedi (as one reviewer pointed out he is not actually a Jedi) Rojo Trace tells a bounty hunter "I have a certain skill set...." ripping off Liam Neeson word for word in the movie Taken. I had to read it twice to believe an author loved that scene so much they'd steal it for their book.
The second most horrible moment for me was when one of the zombies who'd been beheaded actually stumbled across the room, picked up his severed head, and threw it like a baseball toward a Sith student. The head then bit him on the arm and that's how he got zombified.
Last thing. Why wouldn't a Sith just Force squash the zombie's brain inside his head? This was just bad. If you feel the need to read Star Wars novels instead of picking this one up I recommend re-reading the original Thrawn trilogy or even the Darth Bane trilogy if you need a non-Vader Sith fix.
The book was well written, I have to give it that. Otherwise, I don't think I was too agreeable with the zombie/star wars thing. It started a bit slow but everything from there took off. I read through it in about a day making it an easy read, but there were some description and gore that made me cringe. I'm not big on the zombie movement so this kind of turned me away, but as a dutiful Star Wars fan I read the whole thing. It's actually kind of sad once you get past this odd crossover. Otherwise, it didn't really add to the Star Wars universe at all.
I've read a lot of Star Wars books over the years and none have ever reached, or even attempted, the level of violence and viscera that Red Harvest achieves. That isn't an indictment but rather a warning for those expecting a more traditional Star Wars tale. Red Harvest takes the Star Wars universe to dark and disturbing depths. But while it succeeds at making a depraved Star Wars book, it never reaches past the level of mediocre. And that is because it isn't anything more than a mediocre zombie story. The Star Wars aesthetic boosts it somewhat but not enough to elevate this to an easy recommend.
This book was hilarious. Not because it was written as a comedy, but rather because it is just so dumb. The writing is fine, but some of this is so over the top it's ridiculous. There isn't a single character in this book (and we're introduced to quite a few) that I cared about in the slightest. They are not developed at all and are one dimensional with no depth whatsoever. I realize that most of the characters are cannon fodder like any good horror story, but at least give me some tension or something. This book provides no tension to take my mind off the stupidity of the plot and the complete and utter lack of character development. The only reason I slogged through was because this, sadly, is part of the Star Wars universe.
For the love of Vader, just ignore this book.
This is the first Star Wars novel that I haven't liked. Super lame stereotypical zombie story. You get the feeling that the author just slapped "Star Wars" on his zombie to sell the book. The story line has plenty of unexplained elements, and doesn't fit at all into the Star Wars "universe". The writing style itself is alright, but the story is absolute garbage. Authors often are given some leeway to explain some things essentially as 'the force did it', but this is really a stretch. He actually says that "The Sickness" creating the "teenage Sith zombies" is something separate from the Force, but with powers similar to the Force.
Darth Scabrous has uncovered a Sith holocron with the key to unlocking immortality. The last piece he needs to unlock it's power is quite unusual, a very rare black orchid and a young member of the Jedi Agricultural Corps who tends it. However, unleashing the power of immortality has a surprise that even Darth Scabrous is not ready for. The virulent concoction he creates using the black orchid gets out of his control and begins turning an entire academy of Sith masters and students into something worse...
This novel (and I'm using that term loosely here, it's really more of a novella at a full novel price...) is fast paced and exciting but also fairly deficient in several areas. The most glaring was that it's just not very "Star Wars-y." Sure, there are Sith and Jedi but beyond a very thin coat of Star Wars paint, this could be any action-oriented zombie novel. This isn't necessarily a bad thing - the action scenes are well done and author Joe Schreiber builds a relentless pace that comes to a satisfying ending - it's just a feeling that this novel was written to capitalize on the big zombie craze and then stuffed into the Old Republic era because that's where it wouldn't do any cononical damage.
Point of view characters are thin and die with such regularity that there's no character development and other than Darth Scabrous little to nothing is known about other characters, especially the Sith apprentices, so they're "Redshirt" level expendable anyway. As a stand-alone Old Republic novel, this isn't a bad book. If you're looking for an action story with light sabers and occasional Jedi vs Sith stuff thrown in, look no further. If you're looking for something even a little bit cerebral, you can skip this one.
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