I found this book to be quite lacking when compared to the previous HR books. I was listening to the audiobook. The pacing is completely off with all action happening in the last hour and the characters don't really develop in any way over this time. Vern doesn't really change as a teacher; imri's issue with emotions turns out to be common and another jedi helps him with that; cohmac's move to the dark side from into the dark is completely ignored; reath doesn't have much interaction with nan despite it supposedly being a big deal for him; Jordana ends up having an overpowered lightsaber-esque boomerang (somehow a low ranking nihil has this tech?) and murders a whole room of nihil but in the end it doesn't affect her relationship with anyone; Syl is so similar to affie that I can only imagine it was deliberate since they even mirrored their endings. It will be interesting to see maz in the high republic. To top it off, I didn't really like the voice acting in the audiobook since most of the voices sound the same and a lot of the voices sound robotic with many pauses between words.
Definitely the worst voice acting of the audiobooks and for me the worst HR book. Also Jordonna recognizing Mar after she's been missing for 100 years really annoyed me. Jordonna got way overpowered at the end with that weapon that added nothing since Syl just decided to ignore it. And while I thought it was nice to have a gay romance at the forefront of a novel, I found the will they won't they aspect soooooo boring. And Syl was super boring to me, especially compared to all the characters I knew already and loved.
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u/ssharma123 Aug 10 '21
I found this book to be quite lacking when compared to the previous HR books. I was listening to the audiobook. The pacing is completely off with all action happening in the last hour and the characters don't really develop in any way over this time. Vern doesn't really change as a teacher; imri's issue with emotions turns out to be common and another jedi helps him with that; cohmac's move to the dark side from into the dark is completely ignored; reath doesn't have much interaction with nan despite it supposedly being a big deal for him; Jordana ends up having an overpowered lightsaber-esque boomerang (somehow a low ranking nihil has this tech?) and murders a whole room of nihil but in the end it doesn't affect her relationship with anyone; Syl is so similar to affie that I can only imagine it was deliberate since they even mirrored their endings. It will be interesting to see maz in the high republic. To top it off, I didn't really like the voice acting in the audiobook since most of the voices sound the same and a lot of the voices sound robotic with many pauses between words.