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A review by kerrycat
Splinter of the Mind's Eye: Star Wars Legends by Alan Dean Foster
4.0
closer to 3.5
clearly Lucas didn't enlighten Foster as to his plans after the first Star Wars film, and Foster just had to wing it, which makes for some humorous speculation on his part that obviously goes against what we learn later in the original trilogy - including the physical attraction between Luke and Leia, which can be more than a little goofy and overdramatic. for instance: "like a missile launcher sighting on its prey, his eyes contacted hers. There was a brief, silent explosion before she looked hurriedly away." there's more of the same, and he stares at her a lot, thinking of how beautiful she is, what her lips look like, the sort of adolescent dreaminess you can't fault him for but now we know . . .
but there's some good lines here, too, and this one, while simple, jumped out at me, and I'm sure I won't forget it: "the water was as black as the inside of the Emperor's mind."
this and some inconsistent characterization aside, this was fun.
clearly Lucas didn't enlighten Foster as to his plans after the first Star Wars film, and Foster just had to wing it, which makes for some humorous speculation on his part that obviously goes against what we learn later in the original trilogy - including the physical attraction between Luke and Leia, which can be more than a little goofy and overdramatic. for instance: "like a missile launcher sighting on its prey, his eyes contacted hers. There was a brief, silent explosion before she looked hurriedly away." there's more of the same, and he stares at her a lot, thinking of how beautiful she is, what her lips look like, the sort of adolescent dreaminess you can't fault him for but now we know . . .
but there's some good lines here, too, and this one, while simple, jumped out at me, and I'm sure I won't forget it: "the water was as black as the inside of the Emperor's mind."
this and some inconsistent characterization aside, this was fun.