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A review by darkside1523
Victory's Price by Alexander Freed
4.0
Overall a really great ending to a very important trilogy in Star Wars canon. Freed might be the best writer of wartime drama and action in all of Star Wars. Stackpole, Allston, and Traviss wrote some excellent, action-packed Legends novels, but none of them factor in the drama, trauma, guilt, shame, justification, stress, camaraderie and other emotions that comes with those action scenes. The climactic final battle in this book extends about 100 pages and you don’t want to put it down until you get to the end.
The only thing that keeps this from getting 5* from me are the characters. They are amazingly deep and well written, but it’s hard to cheer for them sometimes. The pilots of Alphabet Squadron are imperfect and reluctant heroes. Yes, I understand that’s sort of the point, but it doesn’t make it any easier to root for them when their imperfections get in their own way again.
The only thing that keeps this from getting 5* from me are the characters. They are amazingly deep and well written, but it’s hard to cheer for them sometimes. The pilots of Alphabet Squadron are imperfect and reluctant heroes. Yes, I understand that’s sort of the point, but it doesn’t make it any easier to root for them when their imperfections get in their own way again.