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Star Wars: Red Harvest

Joe Schreiber

Start date: December 28, 2010

Finish date: July 24, 2011

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Oct 22, 2012 Scott Rhee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: zombies, horror, the-old-republic, star-wars, science-fiction, space-horror

Joe Schreiber continues his fun zombie-filled "Star Wars" series that he started in "Death Troopers" with "Red Harvest".

More of a prequel than a continuation of the events in "Death Troopers", "Red Harvest" takes place in the legendary period known as the Old Republic, thousands of years prior to the events of the "Star Wars" films.

The story is set on the wintry-cold planet of Odacer-Faustin, which is the location of a Sith Academy. Lording over the school is Darth Scabrous, a tyrannical and t ...more

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Nov 08, 2011 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: own-physical, unsatisfying-ending, reviews, star-wars

There has ever been a more amazing cover than Red Harvest's. Those epic Sith eyes, creepy red tones, and general murderous intents are what drew me to this book. I have no idea who that is, but I will found out, and I will love him. That Sith is one badass. He's going to rule the entire book, make Jedi fall beneath his blade, and rule planets. He's going to-

Wait, who is that again?

After reading the book, I'm still not really sure. Why did the cover lie to me so convincingly? I knew this was a ho There has ever been a more amazing cover than Red Harvest's. Those epic Sith eyes, creepy red tones, and general murderous intents are what drew me to this book. I have no idea who that is, but I will found out, and I will love him. That Sith is one badass. He's going to rule the entire book, make Jedi fall beneath his blade, and rule planets. He's going to-

Wait, who is that again?

After reading the book, I'm still not really sure. Why did the cover lie to me so convincingly? I knew this was a horror book, but I expected it to be more character focused than Death Troopers, considering one of the first chapters is about a Sith student using the Force to manipulate another students mind when that student is aware of it. They give us potentially the most crazy Sith ever, and what happens to him?

He disapears.

For almost the whole book.

Not disappears as in the plot is about finding him, but just that he's an unimportant character and no one really pays attention to him. How can you create a character with that much talent and just not use him? And that's not just with him, either. Schreiber throws this whole list of characters at you in such a short amount of time that you don't even remember their species - oh wait, yes you do, because they're all human. In the dramatis personae(cast list) there are two non-humans out of about ten. And one random Zabrak that had more screen time than some of the listed characters but still wasn't important enough to be on the list of characters. The huge cast, I think, was the great downfall of this book. The plot was actually very interesting - much more than Death Troopers. But then, I've always loved the Sith training camps more than space adventures, so maybe I'm just biased. Either way, all these characters could have been fleshed out or just taken out entirely. I felt that there was a lot of potentially to their backstories and personalities, but with only 240 pages, it's impossible to get into that enough.

The one person we did learn about, I hated. Hestizo Trace, aka, damsel in distress. She does pretty much nothing except get kidnapped and order a flower around. Everyone has to save her, and when no one is around, she screams and flails and pretty much is useless. This girl is a Jedi? Yeah, right.

I wanted to badly to like this book. I even went out and bought Death Troopers because I didn't want to miss anything. (I was told this was a sequel, okay?!) In the end, I'm not sure if I forced myself to like it or I actually enjoyed it, but here. Have a 3 star rating. You were gory till the end. ...more

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Aug 17, 2013 Haydensdad rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, series, 2013-reading-challenge, star-wars

Read this while on vacation this year. Not a terrible book but thats about the best I have to offer with this volume.
The book primarily concerns the Sith academy and the trouble that it encounters as the result of Darth Scaberous' failed experiment to achieve immortality.

The insights into the Sith apprentice training were interesting as were the revelation of some Jedi traits I was unaware of.
I think of the Jedi as all cast from the same hold. While all have some of the same abilities not all ar ...more

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May 12, 2013 Jeff Messerman rated it liked it

As far as I know, nobody was itching for a dollop of zombies in their Star Wars action. However the walking hungry dead remains a pop culture fixation so why the hell not, right?

Schreiber is an adept enough scribe to save this from the 'quirky novelty' trash bin. And there's no doubt he knows his gore. There are at least ten passages where he translates pulverized bone and viscera into some sort of unnecessary poetry. Goes with the territory I guess.

Sadly this novel falls prey to a lot of EU SW ...more

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