PT Club Jocasta: Thrawn: Treason

And we're back to your regular scheduled programming. I apologize for the delay in getting up a new book club. Bet we're back and with a fan favorite character this time.


We're reading the third book in the new Thrawn trilogy, Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.

Let aim to start discussing towards the end of next week, so if you're currently reading it or are able to pick up a copy in that time, go ahead.

As always, remember that we're all Star Wars fans so be kind to each other.

 

I'm about halfway thru the book and am really liking it so far. I thought the first Thrawn was good (liked the interactions between Eli Vanto and Thrawn). Alliances was a let down for me. Too much time jumping. Went into this one not knowing much at all about the plot.

Very happy when Krennic shows up briefly at the beginning, plus Ronan basically being his surrogate. Enjoying how it ties into Rebels as well.

 

I'd say one of the best interactions during the first few chapters is the hologram conversation between Krennic and Savit. The arrogance dripping from Krennic is great.

 

There's one thing thing in the new Thrawn novels that at times is cool and at times is not. I like the detective aspect of him but the fact that he's literally always 182 miles ahead of everyone else is alittle too much at times. I get it, he's good a deducing things but c'mon would it really be bad to show him not be entirely right about everything (in this novel every single thing pans out for him).

For all of the times he's outsmarted everyone else and always knew what was going to happen, interesting that he was ultimately beat (at least in the new canon) by a teenage kid and space whales.

 

This book probably has some of the most technical space battles. Zahn really gets in the weeds during some of them.

 

I totally forgot this thing is still open. I do like this one more than Alliances solely for the fact that it’s a linear story. There was a string books where they kept jumping around timepoints (Phasma, Alliances, Last Shot).