Books New Novel! Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber

I fully expect the YV to be like the guy speaking Cheunh in Coruscant Nights.

 

I'll post a review soon. Already a few on goodreads. I liked it, but then again I'm a sucker for Maul. Some neat cameos and twists too.

 

If it's good I'll definitely get it. Would be a good thing to compliment the Darth Plagueis book.

While I'm at it maybe I oughta get the other Darth Maul books and the Episode I novelization. Would add to the "Palpatine is omnipotent and Plagueis was a drunkard" compendium.

 

I wouldn't call Lockdown a companion to Plagueis, but there is a twist that ties into the Plagueis novel. You'll get more out of it if you've read Plagueis.

Maul: Shadow Hunter was excellent. One of my top EU books. It's not so much about Maul but it's a fun read. By contrast, Maul: Lockdown focuses almost exclusively on Maul.

 

Does the Yuuzhan Vong speak Cheunh?

 

I see one of the reviews on goodreads mentioned nuclear weapons and that it ties into the Plagueis novel. That along with the mention of Komari Vosa earlier in the thread makes me certain in believing that Sidious was behind the near-succesful attack on Sojourn.

Yay or nay?

 

I'm about a quarter into this myself and I have to admit I'm digging it. Though the Plagueis connection seems pretty obvious to me at the moment.

 

So does Palpatine refer to the imminent Clone Wars as the Galactic Civil War or does he play the long game?

 

Here's my review:

http://poliscijedi.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-maul-lockdown.html

 

"I have been waiting a long time for this, my little green friend. At last, I will be able to name the wars."

 

How much does Plagueis show up in it?

 

Star Wars books posted the first nine chapters on Facebook, here's the link. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/85448/lockdown-star-wars-maul-by-joe-schreiber

 

I am somewhat intrigued.

 

Spoiler

And tried to kill Plagueis, only to fail to kill Plagueis, with the nuclear weapon Iram Radique had.

No, I haven't read the book yet. I made this educated guess before the holidays, the moment I read a blog mentioning a particular word.

 

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I can't stop myself.

Spoiler

IRAM HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

 

I'll admit, despite myself, I am intrigued. Schreiber seems to have a pretty good grasp of characters and plotting from what we've seen thus far, and the fight scenes are well handled. I didn't read either Death Troopers or Red Harvest, so, let me ask those who have: does this book seem like an improvement on those books stylistically?

 

From the excerpts I read of Lockdown, it seems to be a definite improvement over Red Harvest, which IMO was completely awful. I really liked Death Troopers though, and felt Schreiber was really adept at creating a convincing setting and creepy atmosphere aboard the Imperial prison barge in that book. While Death Troopers focused on a small group of characters and slowly built up the horror, Red Harvest was all over the place with a large group of flat and unsympathetic POV characters and lacked the mounting horror and creepy atmosphere of the first book. Since Lockdown is also set in a prison and seems to focus mostly on Maul, I expect this book will be more similar stylistically to Death Troopers than Red Harvest.

 

As bad as that cover is, I'm looking forward to this one. Then again, Schreiber's horror books have been something of a guilty pleasure for me.

 

I kind of dug the atmosphere and setting of Red Harvest myself. And I liked the BH and HK droid.

 

Nice hearing that this book sounds decent.

I am one of the few who enjoyed both Deathtroopers and Red Harvest, so it sounds like I'll hopefully enjoy this -- and the Plagueis stuff now has me intrigued, as I'd been worried this would just be a boring MAUL SMASH!!! story, but it sounds like there's still more to it than purely the wanton slaughter.

 

And it had a Nelvaanian. That redeems everything.

Everything.

 

Have this digitally preordered and cannot wait till it loads on tuesday next week,