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Star Wars: Boba Fett #5
A New Threat
The next action-packed installment in the New York Times best-selling Boba Fett series.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
About the author
Elizabeth Hand
178 books1,249 followersA New York Times notable and multiple award– winning author, Elizabeth Hand has written seven novels, including the cult classic Waking the Moon, and short-story collections. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. She and her two children divide their time between the coast of Maine and North London.
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January 31, 2021
This book is a book meant for young children and is part of a series. It can be read as a standalone. In this one we have a time jump and Boba Fett is in good graces with Jabba. Jabba gives Boba his first assignment off planet and up to now his most dangerous assignment.
This one was a step down for me. At the beginning I was interested as we get the time jump and I thought maybe we would get to see Boba be more like the Boba Fett from the movies. Sadly, this is not the case. This was the reason I did not enjoy this book. This series is making Boba out to be a hero instead of a ruthless bounty hunter. I understand he didn't start out as a ruthless bounty hunter and he had to have reasons to become that way. I would like to see some of these developments. I think the problem is the audience that this series is intended for. They didn't want him to be a bad guy for this series for children. As for the story it had issues. Boba receiving items just in time to assure his safety, dodging laser fire like it is slow motion, and events that conflict with the movies. An example of this would be Jabba getting carbonite statues as a prosaic event.
I think I might be suffering from binging this series. It is starting to wear on me. This book is fine for its intended audience. Adults might notice things that irk them. I only have one more to read from this series so I will finish it and move on.
This one was a step down for me. At the beginning I was interested as we get the time jump and I thought maybe we would get to see Boba be more like the Boba Fett from the movies. Sadly, this is not the case. This was the reason I did not enjoy this book. This series is making Boba out to be a hero instead of a ruthless bounty hunter. I understand he didn't start out as a ruthless bounty hunter and he had to have reasons to become that way. I would like to see some of these developments. I think the problem is the audience that this series is intended for. They didn't want him to be a bad guy for this series for children. As for the story it had issues. Boba receiving items just in time to assure his safety, dodging laser fire like it is slow motion, and events that conflict with the movies. An example of this would be Jabba getting carbonite statues as a prosaic event.
I think I might be suffering from binging this series. It is starting to wear on me. This book is fine for its intended audience. Adults might notice things that irk them. I only have one more to read from this series so I will finish it and move on.
September 16, 2024
Star Wars: Legends: Boba Fett: A New Threat by Elizabeth Hand
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense
Fast-paced
Plot or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
3.75 Stars
I am really loving these Star Wars: Legends: Boba Fett novellas...of the adventures of young Boba Fett.
He is building his fame/infamy in these years...with the help of Jabba the Hutt.
He hasn't perfected it, yet...but he is definintely on the way. He keeps making minor mistakes, and his ruthlessness isn't a thing, yet...but you can see why he eventually shed the nice guy routine (for it seems to always nip him in the rear.
We has a small interaction with a famous Jedi, which I thought was interesting. Also, met the infamous General Grevious. Yikes!
Will pick up the next one, soon. Cannot wait to get to full length novels within the Star Wars franchise. Ugh.
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense
Fast-paced
Plot or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
3.75 Stars
I am really loving these Star Wars: Legends: Boba Fett novellas...of the adventures of young Boba Fett.
He is building his fame/infamy in these years...with the help of Jabba the Hutt.
He hasn't perfected it, yet...but he is definintely on the way. He keeps making minor mistakes, and his ruthlessness isn't a thing, yet...but you can see why he eventually shed the nice guy routine (for it seems to always nip him in the rear.
We has a small interaction with a famous Jedi, which I thought was interesting. Also, met the infamous General Grevious. Yikes!
Will pick up the next one, soon. Cannot wait to get to full length novels within the Star Wars franchise. Ugh.
October 31, 2022
It’s like Princess Bride over here! I read this to my 8 year old as she’s home sick. Four stars, she says “because no book is perfect.”
I liked it, especially the parts where young Boba encounters clone troopers who remind him of his dad. While this is a kids’ book, I enjoyed it and thought the violence and peril was consistent with Boba Fett. Some of the fight scenes might not be for some kids but if they like Boba Fett, they know what they’re in for.
With Boba not siding with The Republic or Separatists, one could have an interesting discussion on morality and choices after reading this.
I liked it, especially the parts where young Boba encounters clone troopers who remind him of his dad. While this is a kids’ book, I enjoyed it and thought the violence and peril was consistent with Boba Fett. Some of the fight scenes might not be for some kids but if they like Boba Fett, they know what they’re in for.
With Boba not siding with The Republic or Separatists, one could have an interesting discussion on morality and choices after reading this.
March 11, 2022
Halfway between hero and villain, the challenge of a book like this is to balance the violence of its title character with a middle grade audience. As Boba Fett throws himself into service for Jabba and the conflicts of the Clone War, the universe gets bigger, the conflicts get heated, and Young Boba finds himself facing off against the toughest enemies he's ever met.
July 18, 2023
Another mediocre entry. It wasn't bad but it felt like it went nowhere. Seeing boba grow and his development was the only part truly worth reading unless you're really into star wars, or a young reader.
February 14, 2017
Well. I suppose I've been spoiled by Jude Watson's take on the Expanded Universe, because the Boba Fett series has been pretty underwhelming. In A New Threat, she takes us to Xagobah (not her creation, but really?), where the native xamsters (again: Really?) are caught between a battle between the Republic and the Separatists. Boba is there to either capture or kill Angkor Wat Wat Tambor for Jabba, and Boba considers this his last apprenticeship assignment. Once this is complete, he'll be a professional, so the stakes are high (for Boba, at least).
Boba continues to make friends, this time finding one through Xaran, a xamster (seriously, was Hand cringing as she wrote this stuff?). Before he leaves, we see his friends in Jabba's palace, and the whole thing just seems sentimental and out of place, for Boba the Bounty Hunter. Even at his age (fourteen or so), he's pushing hard to be considered cold and calculating, and the idea that he's making friends all over the place seems at odds with that characterization.
Hand makes a big deal about how Boba knows that Darth Tyranus and Count Dooku are the same person, and he carries that knowledge around with him like it's his trust fund. We're reminded of this fact several times, but so far this is an unfired gun in the story, because as much as we see it, nothing is done with it. I get the feeling this is going to be relevant in the next book, but I'm not sure how much room there will be to cover it, since A New Threat is only half of the story of Xagobah and Wat Tambor. We finish this book with nothing resolved, with almost nothing having happened in the story anyway.
I may have been too excited about reading this series, but man, has it been disappointing. Luckily, there's only one book left in the series, because if there were any more, I'd be dreading having to keep reading it. I'm in this for the long haul (170 books to go!), for better or worse, but I'm sure hoping for better than this book.
Boba continues to make friends, this time finding one through Xaran, a xamster (seriously, was Hand cringing as she wrote this stuff?). Before he leaves, we see his friends in Jabba's palace, and the whole thing just seems sentimental and out of place, for Boba the Bounty Hunter. Even at his age (fourteen or so), he's pushing hard to be considered cold and calculating, and the idea that he's making friends all over the place seems at odds with that characterization.
Hand makes a big deal about how Boba knows that Darth Tyranus and Count Dooku are the same person, and he carries that knowledge around with him like it's his trust fund. We're reminded of this fact several times, but so far this is an unfired gun in the story, because as much as we see it, nothing is done with it. I get the feeling this is going to be relevant in the next book, but I'm not sure how much room there will be to cover it, since A New Threat is only half of the story of Xagobah and Wat Tambor. We finish this book with nothing resolved, with almost nothing having happened in the story anyway.
I may have been too excited about reading this series, but man, has it been disappointing. Luckily, there's only one book left in the series, because if there were any more, I'd be dreading having to keep reading it. I'm in this for the long haul (170 books to go!), for better or worse, but I'm sure hoping for better than this book.
January 2, 2021
This review encompasses all six in the Legends series, some of which are available for free with Amazon Prime, but are numbered in incorrect or confusing order on Amazon:
1) The Fight to Survive
2) Crossfire
3) Maze of Deception
4) Hunted
5) New Threat
6) Pursuit
I read these as bedtime stories for my 12 year old. They chronologically span the end of Attack of the Clones and the earlier seasons of The Clone Wars animation series. It is the story of the development of Boba Fett from the only unaltered clone child of Jango Fett to Jabba the Hutt's top bounty hunter. The books are on the slightly younger side of YA, namely as it's about a child who figures out how to survive and become one of the galaxy's top bounty hunters before he hits adulthood. It's easier for a younger reader with shorter chapters than the Legends series, and sanitizes certain scenes such as when Boba retrieves Jango's helmet from his decapitated head (there is no decapitated head).
There are plenty of dry and uninteresting bits, some books have not been completely edited for typos, and being somewhat familiar with The Clone Wars cartoon is a prerequisite. Many scenes are difficult to visualize from the author's vivid imagination or without the source material (from Clone Wars?) the author may have been looking at while writing. It's interesting enough from a Star Wars fan standpoint with hypotheticals.
*Spoilers ahead.* While the author stays as close to the "canon" of existing materials as he can, there is some speculation. This book had Jango Fett as a non-Mandalorian with Mandalorian armor gifted to him as opposed to what Dave Filoni revealed about Boba Fett in the last episode of The Mandalorian Season Two. Boba Fett is one of the few people in the galaxy who understands that Count Dooku and Tyranus are the same person, creating both sides of the destructive conflict. He holds that secret as his most valuable possession, aside from the memory of his father and the holorecorded book that Jango Fett leaves him. (It's possible this book is what the title of Disney's upcoming The Book of Boba Fett series refers to as creator Dave Filoni is known to draw from the literature out there). That secret is what ultimately both saves him and makes him self-sufficient. I found the conclusion very satisfactory. Some books in the series are better than others, overall I give them three stars out of five.
1) The Fight to Survive
2) Crossfire
3) Maze of Deception
4) Hunted
5) New Threat
6) Pursuit
I read these as bedtime stories for my 12 year old. They chronologically span the end of Attack of the Clones and the earlier seasons of The Clone Wars animation series. It is the story of the development of Boba Fett from the only unaltered clone child of Jango Fett to Jabba the Hutt's top bounty hunter. The books are on the slightly younger side of YA, namely as it's about a child who figures out how to survive and become one of the galaxy's top bounty hunters before he hits adulthood. It's easier for a younger reader with shorter chapters than the Legends series, and sanitizes certain scenes such as when Boba retrieves Jango's helmet from his decapitated head (there is no decapitated head).
There are plenty of dry and uninteresting bits, some books have not been completely edited for typos, and being somewhat familiar with The Clone Wars cartoon is a prerequisite. Many scenes are difficult to visualize from the author's vivid imagination or without the source material (from Clone Wars?) the author may have been looking at while writing. It's interesting enough from a Star Wars fan standpoint with hypotheticals.
*Spoilers ahead.* While the author stays as close to the "canon" of existing materials as he can, there is some speculation. This book had Jango Fett as a non-Mandalorian with Mandalorian armor gifted to him as opposed to what Dave Filoni revealed about Boba Fett in the last episode of The Mandalorian Season Two. Boba Fett is one of the few people in the galaxy who understands that Count Dooku and Tyranus are the same person, creating both sides of the destructive conflict. He holds that secret as his most valuable possession, aside from the memory of his father and the holorecorded book that Jango Fett leaves him. (It's possible this book is what the title of Disney's upcoming The Book of Boba Fett series refers to as creator Dave Filoni is known to draw from the literature out there). That secret is what ultimately both saves him and makes him self-sufficient. I found the conclusion very satisfactory. Some books in the series are better than others, overall I give them three stars out of five.
August 15, 2023
This takes place after a two-year time jump in the series. I remember the original Clone Wars timeline in the books of this era listed this as 31 months after the Battle of Geonosis. Jabba gives Boba Fett the assignment of capturing or killing Wat Tambor. It’s kind of confusing, but from what I gathered (based on a sentence anyway), it sounded like the Republic was paying Jabba to get someone to get Tambor. These shades of gray would be explored in The Clone Wars movie, funny enough. It’s really weird that Boba doesn’t know who Wat Tambor is, given his presence on Geonosis.
Some of the battle action is pretty cool, and Boba Fett gets to wear a resized version of his father’s armor. It rubs me the wrong way though that he hates all clawdites now as a result of one of his previous experiences. What I’m learning is the Boba of these books makes generalizations about various aliens. Yikes.
If you’re here for Grievous, I have disappointing news for you: he had no business being on the cover. The book has 24 chapters, Grievous is first mentioned explicitly at the end of chapter 20, and he doesn’t appear until the end of chapter 22. This further reinforces that Grievous was indeed such an overhyped character. The writer couldn’t really do much with him, as this book came out the same month he was introduced in the Clone Wars microseries (chapter 20, funny enough). Boba fakes his death, but you’d think Grievous would at least slice the body to be sure of the death, right? He just ends up looking stupid, which I guess was in line with what the character actually ended up being. And apparently Boba hasn’t heard of Grievous, despite him being considered a huge threat to the Republic by this point. Then again, at Boba’s age (twelve), I didn’t watch the news much.
In the end, Boba doesn’t really accomplish anything, and it’s partially due to this seemingly being the beginning of a two-part story. Just one more book to go.
Some of the battle action is pretty cool, and Boba Fett gets to wear a resized version of his father’s armor. It rubs me the wrong way though that he hates all clawdites now as a result of one of his previous experiences. What I’m learning is the Boba of these books makes generalizations about various aliens. Yikes.
If you’re here for Grievous, I have disappointing news for you: he had no business being on the cover. The book has 24 chapters, Grievous is first mentioned explicitly at the end of chapter 20, and he doesn’t appear until the end of chapter 22. This further reinforces that Grievous was indeed such an overhyped character. The writer couldn’t really do much with him, as this book came out the same month he was introduced in the Clone Wars microseries (chapter 20, funny enough). Boba fakes his death, but you’d think Grievous would at least slice the body to be sure of the death, right? He just ends up looking stupid, which I guess was in line with what the character actually ended up being. And apparently Boba hasn’t heard of Grievous, despite him being considered a huge threat to the Republic by this point. Then again, at Boba’s age (twelve), I didn’t watch the news much.
In the end, Boba doesn’t really accomplish anything, and it’s partially due to this seemingly being the beginning of a two-part story. Just one more book to go.
October 7, 2022
Finally the Boba Fett story the serieshas been needing. He's finally doing bounty jobs, finally carrying a weapon and is finally earning himself some notoriety. However that's where this stories strengths end. The plot is so twisted full of convenience and deus ex machina it's ridiculous. Almost every person Boba has ever met previously in the series is somehow in this one. Boba himself makes stupid decisions for plot convenience like leaving his jetpack in his ship for absolutely no reason. At every turn there is some thing magically there to do exactly what he needs from moment to moment.
I also don't think these books have captured an accurate picture of Boba Fetts personality. Boba Fett is a cold ruthless mercenary and a warrior, but in this book he's concerned with the feelings of trees. He has this bleeding heart streak that I don't think the character has had in any other story. Even in the movie, he's eager to see his father murder Obi Wan and chuckles along about it...but now he's this compassionate kid who risks his own neck to save a friend, he's not a hero character but these books try to make him one.
I also don't think these books have captured an accurate picture of Boba Fetts personality. Boba Fett is a cold ruthless mercenary and a warrior, but in this book he's concerned with the feelings of trees. He has this bleeding heart streak that I don't think the character has had in any other story. Even in the movie, he's eager to see his father murder Obi Wan and chuckles along about it...but now he's this compassionate kid who risks his own neck to save a friend, he's not a hero character but these books try to make him one.
November 25, 2017
Young Boba's Most Dangerous Assignment Yet
This exciting chapter features lots of action. Young Boba is now older and more experienced. He has become Jabba the Hutt's favorite bounty hunter. Jabba gives Boba a dangerous assignment to kill a separatist leader named War Tambor whose fortress is under siege by the Republic against the Separatist army. Lots of thrills, close calls and plenty of action make this a great read. Please note, this book ends on a cliffhanger to be solved in the next and final book in this series -Pursuit.
This exciting chapter features lots of action. Young Boba is now older and more experienced. He has become Jabba the Hutt's favorite bounty hunter. Jabba gives Boba a dangerous assignment to kill a separatist leader named War Tambor whose fortress is under siege by the Republic against the Separatist army. Lots of thrills, close calls and plenty of action make this a great read. Please note, this book ends on a cliffhanger to be solved in the next and final book in this series -Pursuit.
December 19, 2021
We jump a few years since the last book in the series, and Boba is now a successful bounty hunter in Jabba's employ. As he is Jabba's #1 bounty hunter, he is given the difficult job of tracking down a separatist leader (why does Jabba want him??) on the planet Xagobah (Not to be confused with Dagobah).
There, the Separatists are fighting the clone troopers of the republic, and Boba has to somehow sneak into the HQ and kidnap the leader...
There, the Separatists are fighting the clone troopers of the republic, and Boba has to somehow sneak into the HQ and kidnap the leader...
May 13, 2017
Max (6): that Boba Fett beat who Jabba sent him to go. Ulu Ulix got up in a ship and tried to shoot the RAM ship. And then Boba had to get in the fight. He saved Ulu Ulix. A clone war guy shot a bullet right at the RAM ship and he won, and the RAM ship came down.
Paul (31): I liked it. 4 stars.
Mandy: I wasn't around for the majority of this one.
Paul (31): I liked it. 4 stars.
Mandy: I wasn't around for the majority of this one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 9, 2021
A fun and exciting adventure as Boba Fett leaves Tatooine for the first time since he began serving Jabba.
I really like the extra characters in this story, and it's always cool to see a certain someone from the original clone wars cartoons show up, however briefly. There are a few moments that seem a bit awkward, but overall I really enjoyed the book.
I really like the extra characters in this story, and it's always cool to see a certain someone from the original clone wars cartoons show up, however briefly. There are a few moments that seem a bit awkward, but overall I really enjoyed the book.
October 13, 2024
Ah yes, baby's first botanical horror experience. They grow up so fast🥹
Also people who are mad about this book just straight up hate fun and whimsy (if that's what you can call being sent into an active warzone on a nightmare carnivorous and poisonous fungi planet), also let Boba have friends damn😭😭 dudebros need to chill
Also people who are mad about this book just straight up hate fun and whimsy (if that's what you can call being sent into an active warzone on a nightmare carnivorous and poisonous fungi planet), also let Boba have friends damn😭😭 dudebros need to chill
February 17, 2018
First of all: I love Boba Fett. I tried to get my hamds on everything to do with the galaxies most notorious and best bounty hunter. The books are for a younger group but I really loved it. The writing is exciting and I got hooked so bad I read them all in 3 days.
November 27, 2018
Interesting continuation of the Boba Fett story, where the notorious bounty hunter is shown to have a "soft" and kind side. The story is "spiced up" with the appearance of General Grievous, as the cover of the novel clearly shows.
July 10, 2020
Boba fett has his first off planet bounty.
Disney tells us a tale of Boba fett. Boba fett travels off planet for his first bounty big job. Boba fett is considered to be jabba the hutts best bounty hunter at this point.
Disney tells us a tale of Boba fett. Boba fett travels off planet for his first bounty big job. Boba fett is considered to be jabba the hutts best bounty hunter at this point.
September 30, 2022
Boba Fett crosses paths with a young Jedi when a mission forces him into the arms of General Grievous.
Boba's story draws towards a conclusion as a more mature Fett continues his path towards the Jedi Council.
Boba's story draws towards a conclusion as a more mature Fett continues his path towards the Jedi Council.
April 7, 2020
SOOOOO FUN AND ACTION PACKED! Love it
April 25, 2020
In this 5th volume of the series we see that Boba has grown and is a popular Hunter in Boba's crew. SO much so he is given a high ranking bounty: To take down Separatist ally Wat Tambor.
May 9, 2021
*4.5 stars for the disappointing ending
December 3, 2022
This remains a good star wars book for kids, teaching them story elements like unexpected twists and cliff hangers.
April 6, 2023
Joa ganz OK. Coole spezien von der originalen Thrawn Trilogie. Krass dass er direkt jetzt schon seine Rüstung hat
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 14, 2023
A standard adventure that doesn't offer anything new, but it contains enough excitement to keep the pages turning. It's also good to see Boba actually being competent.
July 15, 2018
Star Wars Legends Project #158
Background: A New Threat was written by Elizabeth Hand and published in April of 2004. Hand wrote the 3rd through 6th books in this series (taking over for Terry Bisson). These are her only Star Wars books, though she has written a variety of non-Star Wars things.
A New Threat takes place 31 months after the Battle of Geonosis, 19 years before the Battle of Yavin. The young (though now 3 years older than when we last saw him) Boba Fett is the main character, with appearances by Jabba the Hutt, Wat Tambor, General Grievous, Anakin Skywalker, and a few recurring characters specific to this series. The book takes place on Tatooine and Xagobah.
Summary: Things are going pretty well for Boba Fett. He has established himself as the favorite bounty hunter of the powerful crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and he's almost a teenager. Of course, "favorite" is a designation contingent on success, and Jabba has just given Boba his most challenging assignment yet: Kill Wat Tambor, Foreman of the Techno Union. To do that, he'll have to fight his way through two armies and infiltrate an impenetrable fortress that has stymied even the Jedi. But that's all in a day's work for the up-and-coming Greatest Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy.
Review: Maybe it's just that I've lost patience for the particular brand of nonsense this series pulls, but this is a strong example of how not to do a Star Wars YA novel. I wanted it to succeed, but I always knew it was a mistake to build a series around the adventures of Boba Fett as a kid, and if you're not even going to try to do it right, then you particularly have no business doing it at all.
But let me pause for a second and detour through a pet peeve of mine. The book tells at one point that Boba "recalled how Jabba would sometimes have his prisoners brought to him frozen in carbonite."
No no no no NO. First we get a comic where Anakin builds a plan around freezing himself and a bunch of troops in carbonite, and now this. You could have literally anyone else in the galaxy reference the carbon freezing trick and it would be lame, but I'd accept it. But the only two people in the galaxy you cannot involve are Darth Vader and Boba Fett! Because in The Empire Strikes Back, Vader freezes Han Solo in carbonite as a test to make sure a human can survive the process, and Fett is worried that he won't . . . and none of that would make any sense if they were both well-aware that this is a common thing (which apparently it is not)! It's cheesy and it's sloppy and I hate it.
I think that's what grates overall. This is not a story that has ambitions to be anything more than a cheap cash-in on the Boba Fett brand. References to Star Wars lore are chosen at random and tossed haphazardly into the lackluster story to remind us that this is a Star Wars book. And you could almost forgive stuff like the author thinking a Clawdite shape-shifter can just morph into anything, like a bug or a bird, if the story were any good at all, and it just isn't. It's shallow pulp . . . and to add insult to injury, it's not even finished. The book ends on a cliffhanger with nothing resolved, making the whole exercise feel that much more pointless.
F
Background: A New Threat was written by Elizabeth Hand and published in April of 2004. Hand wrote the 3rd through 6th books in this series (taking over for Terry Bisson). These are her only Star Wars books, though she has written a variety of non-Star Wars things.
A New Threat takes place 31 months after the Battle of Geonosis, 19 years before the Battle of Yavin. The young (though now 3 years older than when we last saw him) Boba Fett is the main character, with appearances by Jabba the Hutt, Wat Tambor, General Grievous, Anakin Skywalker, and a few recurring characters specific to this series. The book takes place on Tatooine and Xagobah.
Summary: Things are going pretty well for Boba Fett. He has established himself as the favorite bounty hunter of the powerful crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and he's almost a teenager. Of course, "favorite" is a designation contingent on success, and Jabba has just given Boba his most challenging assignment yet: Kill Wat Tambor, Foreman of the Techno Union. To do that, he'll have to fight his way through two armies and infiltrate an impenetrable fortress that has stymied even the Jedi. But that's all in a day's work for the up-and-coming Greatest Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy.
Review: Maybe it's just that I've lost patience for the particular brand of nonsense this series pulls, but this is a strong example of how not to do a Star Wars YA novel. I wanted it to succeed, but I always knew it was a mistake to build a series around the adventures of Boba Fett as a kid, and if you're not even going to try to do it right, then you particularly have no business doing it at all.
But let me pause for a second and detour through a pet peeve of mine. The book tells at one point that Boba "recalled how Jabba would sometimes have his prisoners brought to him frozen in carbonite."
No no no no NO. First we get a comic where Anakin builds a plan around freezing himself and a bunch of troops in carbonite, and now this. You could have literally anyone else in the galaxy reference the carbon freezing trick and it would be lame, but I'd accept it. But the only two people in the galaxy you cannot involve are Darth Vader and Boba Fett! Because in The Empire Strikes Back, Vader freezes Han Solo in carbonite as a test to make sure a human can survive the process, and Fett is worried that he won't . . . and none of that would make any sense if they were both well-aware that this is a common thing (which apparently it is not)! It's cheesy and it's sloppy and I hate it.
I think that's what grates overall. This is not a story that has ambitions to be anything more than a cheap cash-in on the Boba Fett brand. References to Star Wars lore are chosen at random and tossed haphazardly into the lackluster story to remind us that this is a Star Wars book. And you could almost forgive stuff like the author thinking a Clawdite shape-shifter can just morph into anything, like a bug or a bird, if the story were any good at all, and it just isn't. It's shallow pulp . . . and to add insult to injury, it's not even finished. The book ends on a cliffhanger with nothing resolved, making the whole exercise feel that much more pointless.
F
April 22, 2016
Boba Fett 5 and 6 – “A New Threat” and “Pursuit”
Another “young adult” book, but another one I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s nice, when you’re undergoing a big project like this, to shut your brain off and just bang out a book in a couple of hours. Boba Fett is now an established bounty hunter rapidly gaining recognition around the galaxy while he works for Jabba the Hutt. The problem is, the book talks him up as if he’s some tall 17 year old. But the fact is, according to the Wookiepedia Star Wars novels timeline, he’s 14. Anyway, a fun read, and some great background drama too. He meets Anakin and the two have a grudging respect for each other. And he meets Palpatine, to inform the Chancellor that he knows that Count Dooku and Darth Tyranus are one and the same. Oooooooh…
Another “young adult” book, but another one I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s nice, when you’re undergoing a big project like this, to shut your brain off and just bang out a book in a couple of hours. Boba Fett is now an established bounty hunter rapidly gaining recognition around the galaxy while he works for Jabba the Hutt. The problem is, the book talks him up as if he’s some tall 17 year old. But the fact is, according to the Wookiepedia Star Wars novels timeline, he’s 14. Anyway, a fun read, and some great background drama too. He meets Anakin and the two have a grudging respect for each other. And he meets Palpatine, to inform the Chancellor that he knows that Count Dooku and Darth Tyranus are one and the same. Oooooooh…
December 14, 2009
advanced 4th - 5th grade
This book is the fifth book in the Boba Fett spin off. This book, as far as structure is concerned is similar to the first book. There are 27 lines of text in 14 point font. The vocabulary in this book is a little more advanced than the first edition in the series. This book would be better if the students read it on their own and used it as a book report book.
Language Arts, Science
Lesson Plan: This book would be a great way to illustrate character development over the course of a series. This book could be used to show how the events of a character's life change them, for the better or worse.
This book is the fifth book in the Boba Fett spin off. This book, as far as structure is concerned is similar to the first book. There are 27 lines of text in 14 point font. The vocabulary in this book is a little more advanced than the first edition in the series. This book would be better if the students read it on their own and used it as a book report book.
Language Arts, Science
Lesson Plan: This book would be a great way to illustrate character development over the course of a series. This book could be used to show how the events of a character's life change them, for the better or worse.
March 9, 2010
My son asked me to read this. He was so cute about it and asked me if he could ask me a question when I finished the book. He wanted to know what I would rate it! *lol* So, this is for TSM1. If I were an eight year-old boy, I would give it 4 stars!
Grownups don't need to read it, though. It won't entertain or amuse you. As an adult, I give it 1 star for the egregious foul of having a character dodge a light-based energy weapon. *shakes head* What are we teaching our kids, people???
Grownups don't need to read it, though. It won't entertain or amuse you. As an adult, I give it 1 star for the egregious foul of having a character dodge a light-based energy weapon. *shakes head* What are we teaching our kids, people???
July 6, 2011
Best book so far. Boba Fett is hired by Jabba to slay the dreader Separatist leader Wat Tambor and travels to the planet Xagobah. There, Boba discovers how impossible his task really is - Wat Tambor is protected very well and has all kind of nasty surprised for visitors.
Yet, even more sinister enemy is approaching...
The book is action-packed and because the character is older, everything is more matured and epic. The ending, however, is a very frustrating cliffhanger!
Yet, even more sinister enemy is approaching...
The book is action-packed and because the character is older, everything is more matured and epic. The ending, however, is a very frustrating cliffhanger!
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