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This book has the same problem a lot of star wars books past had. When centering a story on sith or empire figures it's very hard to make a sort of moral connection with them. It plays all sides of moral arguments to the point where nothing held any actual emotional weight. The whole "these ppl are just people doing their job" thing doesn't work when we know that their job is blowing up planets. And while the book tries to address that, you can only put so many generic flowery words around it. Ultimately, these are the bad guys and I'm cool with every one of them dying.
The way this book tries to get around that bit of moral weirdness is by having them go up against terrorists. Everyone can agree terrorism is bad so it doesn't matter who takes the terrorists out, as long as they are taken out. But so often it came across as . . .lazy seems totally unfair, but not super well considered? The book is never forced to reconcile itself with the fact that the empire is doing gnarly stuff. It dances around it so you can still have warm fuzzy feelings about the main characters. But it just doesn't work for me at all in that regard.

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also, no one in this book wears their cover to the grave. They're all disastrous undercover agents. Every single one of them just messes up over and over. I was surprised when the one character died, not because it was shocking, but because I felt like they had all given themselves away prior to that scene. And then, in the end, none of it mattered. Like, not a bit of all that work mattered. That was basically a disaster of bad storytelling. But YAY the main character is brown so woo woo *eye roll*

It's not awful. It's fast paced and easy to read. I just think all these books totally fall apart with their internal morality.

roblucas's review against another edition

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5.0

Very good. It was a much more complex, compelling story than I expected.

hannahelise06's review against another edition

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5.0

Inferno Squad was excellent. An easy, must-read for any Star Wars fan looking to get deeper into the story.

zestyudders's review against another edition

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5.0

I enjoyed this book. It serves as a prequel to the Battlefront II campaign, telling the story of how Inferno Squad came to be and most of the book focusing on a particular mission to eliminate the last remnants of Saw Gerrera's partisans.

ghosttears's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

jarichan's review against another edition

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3.0

Bücher aus der Sicht des Empire sind immer speziell zu lesen. Immerhin sind sie "Die Bösen", aber Star Wars dreht natürlich gerne alles mal ein wenig herum. Vor allem bei den Büchern. Auch hier erleben wir das Empire und die Rebellen aus der Sicht loyaler Anhänger.

Und vor allem: sie sind sympathisch! Man mag sie. Es sind hier keine Sith, die zu Werke gehen, sondern einfache Soldaten, die für das einstehen, woran sie glauben. In diesem Falle ist es eben das Empire.

Christie Golden ist auch für mich unterdessen keine Unbekannte mehr, hat sie doch schon einiges an Büchern zum Star Wars-Universum beigetragen (und anderen Welten auch). Somit ist sie eine versierte Autorin, die ihr Handwerk versteht. Das merkt man auch hier. Die Handlung ist gut aufgebaut, die Figuren entwickeln sich und als Leser ist man gespannt, ob das Squad seinen Auftrag nun ausführt oder nicht.

Wie gesagt - man fiebert eigentlich mit den Übeltätern mit. Das hat Golden hervorragend hinbekommen und zeigt so das menschliche Gesicht hinter dem Empire. So schaffen es die Bücher, die Welt von Star Wars zu vertiefen und zu erweitern. Und vor allem heben sie sich über das typische Schwarz-Weiss-Denken hinweg.

Faszinierend, was passiert, wenn man mal seinen Blickwinkel verändert.

tjlcody's review

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4.0

Have to say, did a good job building up some stuff for the game (which, tbh, did a terrible job story-wise and developing the characters).

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