Helpful Score: 3
Despite all the hype about the first Star Wars/horror novel, it was just pretty ok. I will say, the author handles the horror parts very well and there's appropriate gruesomeness throughout the story.
However, it's not much of a SW story, more like a zombie story that happens to be in the SW galaxy. If you removed the two movie characters that make an appearance, you've got a zombie story on a spaceship. There's an attempt to develop the other "main" characters but really they're more like slasher film fodder than characters you get invested in. I honestly didn't care what happened to them and since you know the movie characters are going to survive, there's not a whole lot of tension. As I said earlier though, Schreiber is good at the horror bits and if nothing else I will check out his other horror books after reading this.
If you're a Star Wars fan that also happens to like zombies, then I would recommend this for you.
However, it's not much of a SW story, more like a zombie story that happens to be in the SW galaxy. If you removed the two movie characters that make an appearance, you've got a zombie story on a spaceship. There's an attempt to develop the other "main" characters but really they're more like slasher film fodder than characters you get invested in. I honestly didn't care what happened to them and since you know the movie characters are going to survive, there's not a whole lot of tension. As I said earlier though, Schreiber is good at the horror bits and if nothing else I will check out his other horror books after reading this.
If you're a Star Wars fan that also happens to like zombies, then I would recommend this for you.
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