Ben Savage's Reviews > Isard's Revenge

I guess I like Alston a bit more than Stackpole. However it took me a chapter or two to realize this was a Corran Horn story.

Rouge Squadron proper is back. Not the Wraiths. The first. The Rogues.

A couple of series wide plot points were resolved within those first two chapters. Now General Antilles, promotions follow for most Rogues. The flying is still great.

At points it took me a slog to get through it. Stackpole never used 10 words he liked when he could use 20 short naval terms. Space made it difficult to actually picture the battles. The burning colors of fire makes me question what is burning. And Stackpole liked to have heavy sci fi and then light sci fi. Like " heres how the massive Star Destroyer maneuvers and sounds and tactical space battle. " Then the next paragraph is Corran Horn uses his lightsaber tee hee.

As always its amazing to read the novels before they figured all this out. The sounding out of the clones was very interesting to reveal.

The book suffers a small amount for referencing others novels and events, but nothing derails it.

Read it to continue the series.