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What a title..."No Prisoners!" Rawr!!
The third novel based on the CW animated series brings Karen Traviss back for more clone-lovin' fun. This time, Anakin kicks it with Padmé while Rex and Ahsoka team up with a young Pellaeon and Callista, the Jedi who ends up Luke's one true love until they decided to fix him up with Mara Jade. Callista shows up with her band of heretical Jedi, led by an old hippie Master. Their mission is to rescue a captured Republic agent, who is not-so-secretly Pellaeon's girlfriend.
Traviss as always can concoct a good story and this was entertaining throughout. Her heart is with the clonetroopers and she writes Rex very well. Her heart is also with the outsiders and rogues like the hippie Master, Pellaeon, and Anakin. It's clear she loves writing about them.
There's also a really funny part at the beginning of the book when Ahsoka and Rex arrive on Pellaeon's ship. He's horrified at Ahsoka's lack of attire and orders her to put some clothes on. No tube tops on his ship!
The only thing that weighs No Prisoners down is Traviss's pontification about the evils of the Republic and the awfulness of the Jedi Order. Yoda is stuck on a spit like a rotisserie chicken; not literally of course but they're always talking smack about him and his closed-minded rules. While I agree the Jedi let themselves get sucked into Palpie's phony war and didn't give much thought to the morality of cloned soldiers (at least not on film), while I agree the Jedi mishandled Anakin to put it mildly, at times I was thinking, "Okay, okay, I get it, sheesh." There are good arguments for why the Jedi do have their rules, but there's no fair and balanced view in Traviss's books. Ahsoka could have been a good conduit for the Jedi's side so to speak but all she can do is stare at the heretics and spit back what she's been taught. Come to think of it, there was opportunity for Ahsoka and Anakin to talk about what she's seen but Traviss ignores it completely.
Anakin does talk to the hippie Master though and it's an interesting conversation. Kind of sad too because the hippie Master tells him they would be more than happy to take in Anakin should the Jedi Council kick him out. So, why didn't Anakin think of that in ROTS then? Good question.
The third novel based on the CW animated series brings Karen Traviss back for more clone-lovin' fun. This time, Anakin kicks it with Padmé while Rex and Ahsoka team up with a young Pellaeon and Callista, the Jedi who ends up Luke's one true love until they decided to fix him up with Mara Jade. Callista shows up with her band of heretical Jedi, led by an old hippie Master. Their mission is to rescue a captured Republic agent, who is not-so-secretly Pellaeon's girlfriend.
Traviss as always can concoct a good story and this was entertaining throughout. Her heart is with the clonetroopers and she writes Rex very well. Her heart is also with the outsiders and rogues like the hippie Master, Pellaeon, and Anakin. It's clear she loves writing about them.
There's also a really funny part at the beginning of the book when Ahsoka and Rex arrive on Pellaeon's ship. He's horrified at Ahsoka's lack of attire and orders her to put some clothes on. No tube tops on his ship!
The only thing that weighs No Prisoners down is Traviss's pontification about the evils of the Republic and the awfulness of the Jedi Order. Yoda is stuck on a spit like a rotisserie chicken; not literally of course but they're always talking smack about him and his closed-minded rules. While I agree the Jedi let themselves get sucked into Palpie's phony war and didn't give much thought to the morality of cloned soldiers (at least not on film), while I agree the Jedi mishandled Anakin to put it mildly, at times I was thinking, "Okay, okay, I get it, sheesh." There are good arguments for why the Jedi do have their rules, but there's no fair and balanced view in Traviss's books. Ahsoka could have been a good conduit for the Jedi's side so to speak but all she can do is stare at the heretics and spit back what she's been taught. Come to think of it, there was opportunity for Ahsoka and Anakin to talk about what she's seen but Traviss ignores it completely.
Anakin does talk to the hippie Master though and it's an interesting conversation. Kind of sad too because the hippie Master tells him they would be more than happy to take in Anakin should the Jedi Council kick him out. So, why didn't Anakin think of that in ROTS then? Good question.
