Comments on: Suvudu Gateway Series: Jump Into The EU With Shatterpoint

By: Sigmund Shen

Sigmund Shen — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:57:30 +0000

Nice essay — I agree that it’s an excellent gateway novel and a great story period. My only reservation is that after starting with such a high point, a lot of other books in the wildly inconsistent EU will seem shallow and boring. A point is deducted for saying it has an Apocalypse Now vibe — that’s true, but it would be more accurate to give credit to Joseph Conrad.

By: Layma Vespera

Layma Vespera — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:28:51 +0000

I agree with your assesment – at first, I thought \no way is this a gateway book\ but you’ve convinced me. It’s one of my favorites for it’s complexity and blunt question.

What happens to peacekeepers when they are forced to make war?

Thank you for your review!

By: J Burns

J Burns — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:23:10 +0000

I couldn’t disagree more, actually. I had just recently read both of Suvudu’s recommendations for this & Hard Contact as I have been getting back into the EU after a several year hiatus. Hard Contact was great, but this… is something else entirely. At a whopping 410 pages, this novel could have easily been cut in half. And what a snore and a half it was! I’ve not had this much trouble getting through a SW Novel since The Crystal Star.

Mace continues to make one bad decision after another at the expense of others lives. ‘Why didn’t I kill Count Dooku?’ He makes the same exact mistake with the Kar Vastor character here! And it seems as though Mace continues to over complicate things in the name of ‘keeping the peace’, yet he has no problem getting into several physical altercations & border line ‘blood fever’ the entire way.

The overall message was not worth this long-ass read: War is Bad. The only interesting insightfulness comes from the crazed Depa BiIllaba when she states that War will kill the Jedi, as it is against their very beliefs. The POV journal entries were entirely unnecessary. If you want a good POV novel, pick up I, Jedi.

NOT recommended for the casual reader, especially as a ‘Gateway Novel’.

By: Andrew Jordan

Andrew Jordan — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:37:25 +0000

I’m not sure I entirely agree. I personally wasn’t a huge fan of it, but i only read the first 114 pages of it. It was hard for me to get through the rest, so I just put it down and decided to read Cloak of Deception instead. That was a pretty god novel as well. You meet a lot of the members of the Jedi Council that are in Episode 1. Though I’m not a huge fan of the novel, I do understand how it could be a gateway novel. Maybe not the best gateway novel, but defiantly a possibility.

By: Es

Es — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:56:53 +0000

This is the best one yet. (applause)