Worst Star Wars novels

Now that I've read more than 50+ novels, I was just wondering what people think are the WORST novels in the EU? I'll give my list with a brief reason why.

Dark Journey - Worst of the NJO by far. No point to the entire plot, and it amounts to nothing more than a soap opera like episode that has no impact on the overall narrative.

Dark Nest Trilogy - the entire thing. This was a terrible and confusing way to follow up the NJO. Half the time I couldn't tell what was going on and most of the time I simply did not care. I really didn't like the overall premise of the Killiks and did not find them either interesting or worth suffering through one book, let alone three.

Approaching Storm - basically Anakin, Obiwan, Luminara and Bariss Offee wandering through the desert. Novel can be summed up in one word: BORING.

Jedi Trial - One page chapters? Every third page mentioning the troops dependence on water? Purple tea? Please.

Allegiance - Sorry Zahn but this one just didn't cut it. This book needed way more Vader, more Emperor, less stormtroopers and a more coherent story.

There are others but I'll stop there and see what others think.

Generally, we don't do "favorites" threads or the reverse.

 

I'll be the first to jump in and say Triple Zero. I thought Hard Contact was all right, but I swear that Triple Zero kept making me fall asleep.

I think that is one book that has a following of people that love it, and people that hate it.

That is the only Star Wars book that I regret reading (trying to at least...I honestly never finished it). I think some that have read more than I will point at The Dark Crystal though.

Carnage

 

Children of the Jedi, Planet of Twilight, and Crystal Star all have almost no redeeming value. The New Rebellion is slightly better but still bad. The Cestus Deception was boring while Jedi Trial was horrible anytime Anakin wasn't present. Those are probably my 6 least favorite SW novels.

 

I thought about adding Triple Zero but I think my problem wasn't so much the story, which I kind of enjoyed, but the fact that Karen Traviss likes to use the Mandalorian language so much. It was kind of cool for a little while, but it got pretty damn annoying throughout this book. In fact, even though I am enjoying the LOTF, I'm not really looking forward to the new Traviss novels because I know they are going to be Mandalorian heavy, and filled with even more of her annoying Mando tendencies. Maybe I'll be surprised but I have a feeling I won't.

 

I didn't know you could read a movie

 

Star by Star. Because it killed the only member of the younger generation who showed promise of being able to match the Big Three, to be the future hero of EU.

 

Before the Haters show up, I'm just going to point out that Dark Empire, aside from being awesome, is not qualifiable for this thread because it's a comic, not a novel.

Edit: Also, every novel that doesn't feature Kyle Katarn kicking ass.

 

Awwww, suck it up.

Show some backbone, or did Denning take that from you too.

 

Darksaber, I still feel ripped off for the fifty cents I paid for it.
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy

 

What has spine - or the presumed lack of it - got to do with the unnecessary killing of the best character among the younger generation of SW characters? Why would stupid decisions just have to be accepted?

 

Triple Zero -- My personal worst. Started out ok, then got boring. I also found it... well, depressing. And kind of angering, too... one of those novels you want to just enter yourself and start arguing with the characters about how hypocritical they're all being.

Darksaber -- CLICHED! All the villains were the "Muhahahahaaa I'm gonna talk over the universe with my super-dee-duper WMD!!! W00T!" type. Drove me nuts reading the darned thing.

Planet of Twilight -- This book depressed me. A lot.

Rogue Planet -- I love Obi-Wan. I loved the cover of the book. The inside made very little sense, and what sense it did make I usually missed because it was a bunch of yapping. Seinar and Tarkin were pretty much carrying it the whole way.

Ruins of Dantooine -- I guessed the plot twist from the very beginning. The only reason I kept reading it was because I was hoping I was wrong.

The last two JA books -- Like Darksaber. Only with gullible angsty brats with WMDs. To think I actually liked Kyp in the first book... *shudder*

 

Dark Journey- I really hate Mara Jade's icy "I'm a hero unto myself that is better than any of you" persona, and Jaina in this book was ten times worse than that. Add her 300 page long PMS trip in with substandard Vong villains and you have one bad novel.

Rogue Planet- I don't think I'm asking for much when I ask for a plot to make sense, or be interesting. Or, maybe I am and this book is actually genius.

 

I like the Triple Zero for the Mando language, especially, the poetic like chants. It makes me think of ancient tribes preparing and going to war.

WORST
Children of the Jedi, Darksaber, and just a whole slew of Bantam era books.

 

Approaching storm...the ending was bad
Allegiance...waste of time
Rogue Planet...can you describe more things no one cares about.

I didn't dislike any except Allegiance.

I haven't read some of the others...but I am going to read Crystal Star...i heard that was the worst of all

Oh yes, Splinter in the Minds eye...couldn't read it...Children as well. That is pretty tuff to do. I went back and finished Rogue.

 

Star By Star, traitor and Dark Journey. the trilogy of suck.

 

Jedi Trial - I felt that the parts with Anakin had some redeeming qualities (and for some odd reason Pors Tonith was the one thing that I liked most about that novel). The things that killed it for me were:
-The romance of Odie and Erk
-The logistics and artillery lectures.
-The introduction of a character just to kill him off in the same scene.

It came as a surprise to me because I read the prologue and then stopped reading it. In the month that passed before I picked that book up again I'd completely forgotten about it. Ruins of Dantooine eclipses Planet of Twilight as my least favorite SW novel.

 

1. Triple Zero
2. Jedi Trial
3. Planet of Twilight
4. Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
5. The Cestus Deception.

And I'll throw in The Truce of Bakura for good measure.

 

1. The Unseen Queen
2. Planet Of Twilight
3. Crystal Star
4. Jedi Trial
5. Medstar I

Those five above are really bad.

 

Triple Zero nearly destroyed my will to follow Star Wars until I rewatched the movies and read Betrayal.

DNT didn't help.

 

Bib Fortuna and the Rise of the Dark Falls

 

Just what you'd expect from a striker.....

I say LOTF: Tempest was by far the worst, there were some parts where the females were so weak that I began wondering if Denning was sexist....

 

oh god yes (and fixed)

or at least Mandalorian Armor. Never made it any farther than that. In fact, I never actually finished MA. Every other book I finished. Except this one. Ugh.

I have not read Approaching Storm, Planet of Twilight and Crystal Star, thanks to people on the internet and by now I don't want to either

that said

#2: Children of the Jedi - I've had to read the first page 5 times and still didn't get it. Went on anyway and hated the book. It's just bad.
#3: Cestus Deception - almost as boring as MA. I guess the fact that it was Obi-Wan was the only thing that made me finish this book (unlike MA, what do I care what happens to Boba Fett?)
#4: Balance Point - a couple of nice scenes but the rest of it is quite forgettable and not a huge joy to read. It was a hardcover, wasn't it? If so, I'm glad I waited for the paperback.
#5: Shatterpoint - I don't get what everyone sees in it, even though I love Stover's other two. Actually, maybe I do get it and hate it for that. This thing was far far too depressing, so much that it's almost completely unStarWarsy. All that death, torture, blood, mutilation, brainworms, sweat, exhaustion. Ugh. It got to me and I didn't like it.


honorable mention: The Jaina parts of The Swarm War. The bug that died every chapter was the only redeemable aspect of that, because it's hilarious.

 

My three least favorite EU books are:

The Crystal Star
Hated everything about, especially Waru. I'm thankful that I'll never have to read it again.

Shatterpoint
Sorry, but after about 200 pages of Stover shoving "WAR IS ****!" down my throat every other page I couldn't take it any longer.

Traitor
I don't what I hated more: all the "Is or isn't there a Dark Side" debates that this books has unleashed upon our board or Jacen acting like a total wuss for the entire book.

 

Shatterpoint - I've read Heart of Darkness, watched Apocalypse Now - I didn't need Stover to remake them with Mace Windu.

The Jedi Academy Trilogy, though my love of I, Jedi eases the pain.

LotF: Bloodlines - I had high hopes for LotF then Traviss had to write this, after Sacrifice i might skip her contributions.

The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy - Boring, poorly plotted, irrelevant, superflous, etc, etc.

Planet of Twilight (why were the Giza pyramids on the cover?) - Pretty boring.

Splinter of the Minds Eye - due to when it was written its so incongrous with the rest of the material. Plus its just not really to my taste.

NJO: Vector Prime - Not for Chewies death, which I felt was long overdue, the authors (with almost no exceptions) had been using him as a combination of Set-dressing and ScoobyDoo style echo. No I just felt the uninvolved with most of the story.

The Crystal Star - I've long since repressed most of this bilge.

(I'm sure others would make my list but I avoided most of the Ani & Obi novels, as well as the Ruins of Dantooine - which has the ugliest cover ever).

 

Ummmm Delrey was always planning to kill off the reckless Solo brother. The only thing Lucas did was change if from Jacen to Anakin. The Neither Jacen nor Anakin had personalities similar to what was depicted in the 1st half of NJO in theri junior series.


Anakin was 'YJK Jacens' personality taken to an extreme
And Jacen was 'JJK Anakin' peronality taken to an extreme.

They always planned to kill off the Luke/Han Type, showing that balind recklessness would get a chracter killed.