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A review by telltalepage
Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel by Daniel José Older
5.0
I went into this for Han being a dad to little Ben and came out with so much more!
This was exciting, funny, fast paced, and made me squirm from unease more than once (hallelujah finally a Star Wars villain who is creepy as all hell and not involved with the Force). I'm new to the Star Wars world in books, but so far, this is definitely my favorite.
This follows Han Solo and Lando Calrissian after the events of Return of the Jedi. Han has a baby, Lando is CEO of a droid company....and then everything comes crashing down when droids start killing people. The story skips from present day, to two (three including the antagonists short chapters) different flashbacks; one for Han and one for Lando. It's up to our favorite human rebellion heroes to save the world from the notorious Pau'an, Fyzer Gor, and his plans for total galaxy domination via droids.
All of the threads of the story tie together so well even if you're not sure where it will end when you first start reading all of the different stories. As much as I'm not entirely on board with Han thinking he's a bad dad, Older did a great job showing the conflict within the scoundrel that felt realistic enough. Lando was also a great addition for a point of view character, as we got to learn even more about him and how his thoughts and emotions worked. It was adorable to see baby Ben (adorable and heart breaking at the same time) and seeing familiar faces like Leia and Chewie were also great at making the book fun and exciting.
The antagonist, Fyrze Gor, was....well he was sofucking creepy! I had no idea what to expect out of the antag of this book and then he was introduced and I could feel my skin crawling with the....wrongness of what he was doing. It made for such a compelling character, and I'd gladly read up more on the cult he created, just to give myself nightmares.
The writing with witty and fun and not bogged down with a lot of military tactics which made reading the Thrawn books a little sluggish for me. Turns out, I do 100% love Star Wars books as long as they're not entirely military jargon. That being said, there were some very modern phrases used within this, mostly by Lando, that totally yanked me out of the story. Most of the time, it was dialogue made from memes that I had seen on tumblr posts like years ago....written in this book. I'm not accusing anyone of anything but it was a startling and it pulled me out of the story more than a few times while reading.
Even with that, though, I still give this a 5 star rating!
This was exciting, funny, fast paced, and made me squirm from unease more than once (hallelujah finally a Star Wars villain who is creepy as all hell and not involved with the Force). I'm new to the Star Wars world in books, but so far, this is definitely my favorite.
This follows Han Solo and Lando Calrissian after the events of Return of the Jedi. Han has a baby, Lando is CEO of a droid company....and then everything comes crashing down when droids start killing people. The story skips from present day, to two (three including the antagonists short chapters) different flashbacks; one for Han and one for Lando. It's up to our favorite human rebellion heroes to save the world from the notorious Pau'an, Fyzer Gor, and his plans for total galaxy domination via droids.
All of the threads of the story tie together so well even if you're not sure where it will end when you first start reading all of the different stories. As much as I'm not entirely on board with Han thinking he's a bad dad, Older did a great job showing the conflict within the scoundrel that felt realistic enough. Lando was also a great addition for a point of view character, as we got to learn even more about him and how his thoughts and emotions worked. It was adorable to see baby Ben (adorable and heart breaking at the same time) and seeing familiar faces like Leia and Chewie were also great at making the book fun and exciting.
The antagonist, Fyrze Gor, was....well he was so
The writing with witty and fun and not bogged down with a lot of military tactics which made reading the Thrawn books a little sluggish for me. Turns out, I do 100% love Star Wars books as long as they're not entirely military jargon. That being said, there were some very modern phrases used within this, mostly by Lando, that totally yanked me out of the story. Most of the time, it was dialogue made from memes that I had seen on tumblr posts like years ago....written in this book. I'm not accusing anyone of anything but it was a startling and it pulled me out of the story more than a few times while reading.
Even with that, though, I still give this a 5 star rating!