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# Allegiance: Star Wars Legends

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## Customer Reviews

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    Stormtrooper squad runs amok!
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2007*

Timothy Zahn returns to the Star Wars universe with his eighth novel set in the galaxy far, far away. This time he has a new era to play around in: Allegiance is set right after the events of A New Hope. It features many familiar film characters as well as a prominent role for a teenage Mara Jade and an intriguing squad of rogue stormtroopers. Perspectives vary among fans of the Expanded Universe as to how fleshed out the three years between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back truly are. If you include the Marvel comic series, the newspaper strips, and various articles in journals and magazines as canon, this period is already quite busy. If you are incorporating novels only, it is considerably thinner. My personal view on canon is I don't spend much time dwelling on it: if it is Star Wars and I am entertained, I'm happy.In Allegiance, Zahn weaves a very complicated plotline that verges on being a mystery tale. Many new characters are introduced and then discarded quickly as events unfold, making the story a bit choppy. For this reason, it's likely to be a more satisfying read when digested in larger chunks than read piecemeal a chapter or two at a time (which is what I did).A few new characters do stand out, though, and they are the five Imperial troopers on the run that comprise the Hand of Judgment. Much like Karen Traviss and her beloved clone troopers featured in her Republic Commando novels, Zahn takes a group of helmeted anonymous soldiers and makes them dynamic individuals. Their attempts to reconcile their doubts in the Empire with their need to to serve the galaxy with honor and duty are quite interesting and continue the trend in Star Wars of placing shades of gray into what once seemed like straightforward good vs. evil yarns.Zahn is indisputably a big fan of his two most famous characters he has created, Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade. Thrawn does not feature in this story, but Mara certainly does. While I very much enjoyed the role she has played in Zahn's books so far, I felt her characterization in this novel stretched credulity. She is a teenager (eighteen, I believe), and yet she possesses the poise, confidence, and skills of someone far older. She is depicted too favorably compared to Darth Vader for my tastes, and I would have liked to have seen a Mara who is making novice mistakes and desperately trying to claw her way up the Imperial ladder into Palpatine's good graces.What is more disturbing is comparing Mara in Allegiance to Luke. While their ages are similar, they couldn't be portrayed more differently. Luke is stumbling, uncertain of himself, and appears to have regressed to the farm boy we saw at the start of Episode IV, not the newly emboldened warrior at the Yavin ceremony who has just destroyed the Death Star and saved the Rebellion. Han and Leia behave largely as they did toward the end of A New Hope and fare a bit better.Timothy Zahn is an entertaining writer and I always enjoy his Star Wars stories, but I would classify this one as a more middle-of-the-road effort than his usual. I would be onboard for a sequel featuring the Hand of Judgment more prominently, possibly focusing on what seems the almost inevitable path that will lead them to joining the Rebellion.

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    More great Zahn
  

*by C***9 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2012*

I really enjoyed this book. I found it well written and very interesting. I am a Star Wars EU fan and have read a large portion of the books available. I have grown a bit board of the usual Han, Luke, and Leia adventures- yet this was quite refreshing. The stormtroopers were interesting new characters and the usual trio (Han, Luke, and Leia) come alive once again just like they did in the original trilogy. Han is once again his smuggler/scoundrel self, always arguing with Leia,  "Princess, worshipfulness". Luke is a naive farmboy. I have always been a big fan of the character Mara Jade as well, so learning more about her is enjoyable.A few Cons:Mara Jade seems to be way to sure of herself and experienced for a young 18 year old- she seems more what you would expect from a highly experienced and older veteran.Ben Kenobi's voice in Luke's head is way over done, in my opinion. Rather then being a quick bit of guidance or instruction as from the movies (and other EU works that I recall), Luke literally is asking questions, hesitant to adhere, and even arguing back in forth with him. It is more like Luke has his dead mentor on comlink and I found it over done.All things considered, the con's were minor and did little to detract from what I found to be an excellent read. One of the better ones in my opinion. I really liked how the book follows the stormtroopers, the rebels, and Mara Jade and then ties it all in together. Often times when authors do this, I find myself being very interested in one group, but totally disinterested in the others- not the case this time. I would put it right up there with the best of Timothy Zahn.

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    Young Mara & the Hand of Judgement
  

*by A***U on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2020*

This was another great book by Timothy Zahn. Set earlier in the timeline than the fabulous original Thrawn trilogy, we join Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie shortly after the events of a New Hope. Besides them, we also meet a younger Mara Jade in her guise as the Emperor 's Hand. I also love the stormtrooper squad known as the Hand of Judgement. Vader makes appearances as well. This one took a bit before it found its stride, chasing pirates wasn't as fun to me. I loved Talon Karrde and his smuggling crew. I read this book using immersion reading while listening to the audiobook, brilliantly narrated by the wonderful Marc Thompson. It's a shame that the follow up, Choices of One isn't on audio. On to that one now.

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