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A review by jenny_librarian
Triple Zero by Karen Traviss
adventurous
informative
tense
fast-paced
2.75
This series is great about expanding more on clones and Mandalorian culture. I am loving those aspects and if it wasn’t for the things that give me grief, I would have given it 5 stars.
Unfortunately the things that bothered me were too obvious to ignore:
- The Jedi hating. It’s not just Skirata. This book bangs on again and again how awful the Jedi are. And having Etain as one of the the only 2 Jedi characters moderately present is not helping.
-Etain. The only female character with a decent presence (which makes all of this even worse, because in this book she’s just there to cause emotional conflict) and she’s just all around terrible. She still feels like a kid (it’s never specified how old she is – except that she passed her trials since Qiilura – but she reads very much like a teenager), but she’s thrown into this whole romance with Darman (which doesn’t feel organic at all) and gets herself knocked up within a week. The book would be so much better without her.
-The lack of any kind of diversity. I know, I know. It’s an older book. It makes sense for it to be very heteronormative and to include actual slurs (and not just SW slurs) on page. But I’m so tired of the heteronormativity and xenophobia.
Unfortunately the things that bothered me were too obvious to ignore:
- The Jedi hating. It’s not just Skirata. This book bangs on again and again how awful the Jedi are. And having Etain as one of the the only 2 Jedi characters moderately present is not helping.
-Etain. The only female character with a decent presence (which makes all of this even worse, because in this book she’s just there to cause emotional conflict) and she’s just all around terrible. She still feels like a kid (it’s never specified how old she is – except that she passed her trials since Qiilura – but she reads very much like a teenager), but she’s thrown into this whole romance with Darman (which doesn’t feel organic at all) and gets herself knocked up within a week. The book would be so much better without her.
-The lack of any kind of diversity. I know, I know. It’s an older book. It makes sense for it to be very heteronormative and to include actual slurs (and not just SW slurs) on page. But I’m so tired of the heteronormativity and xenophobia.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexism, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Child death, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation