Re: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons, thoughts??
Originally posted by Volundro Ramm
Although i am yet to read "Shatterpoint", the combination of Steve Perry and Michael Reeves is very intreeeeeging.The Clone Wars that swept across the galaxy in the twilight years of the Republic engulfed more than Jedi Knights, clone troopers and droid soldiers. On the fierce battlefields of Drongar, a tiny med unit tends to those wounded from the ceaseless combat waged on the jungle world for control of a priceless native plant.
In the pages of this forthcoming Clone Wars novel, readers will meet a surgeon that cloaks his despair with sardonic wit; another who weathers the death and misery of Drongar by making beautiful music; a compassionate nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor; and a Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master.
These are the characters of Battle Surgeons, the first book of the MedStar duology. Writing this paperback novel release are two veteran Star Wars novelists, Michael Reeves (author of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter) and Steve Perry (author of Shadows of the Empire.) Here's a first look of the cover art by Dave Seeley, featuring Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee.
Star Wars MedStar I: Battle Surgeons, a Clone Wars novel, is scheduled for release in July 2004 from Del Rey Books.Thoughts
Never read it. The only Steve Perry book I've read is Shadows of the Empire. And also, for those of you who aren't aware, Steve Perry was the lead singer of the rock band Journey. He had a 4.5 octave range and 80s badass.
Sorta. Lol.
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It's not a very good novel, in my opinion. I got to chapter twenty (Which in other books would probably be chapter 10) and stopped, the novel really doesn't keep you intrested and some of the chapters seem quite pointless. I wouldn't waste the money on it, I expected better from the two authors that wrote it.
Buy "Shatterpoint" instead. Or start reading the "New Jedi Order" series, or any other Star Wars book series.
Re: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons, thoughts??
Originally posted by Volundro RammUrgh.
Although i am yet to read "Shatterpoint", the combination of Steve Perry and Michael Reeves is very intreeeeeging.The Clone Wars that swept across the galaxy in the twilight years of the Republic engulfed more than Jedi Knights, clone troopers and droid soldiers. On the fierce battlefields of Drongar, a tiny med unit tends to those wounded from the ceaseless combat waged on the jungle world for control of a priceless native plant.
In the pages of this forthcoming Clone Wars novel, readers will meet a surgeon that cloaks his despair with sardonic wit; another who weathers the death and misery of Drongar by making beautiful music; a compassionate nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor; and a Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master.
These are the characters of Battle Surgeons, the first book of the MedStar duology. Writing this paperback novel release are two veteran Star Wars novelists, Michael Reeves (author of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter) and Steve Perry (author of Shadows of the Empire.) Here's a first look of the cover art by Dave Seeley, featuring Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee.
Star Wars MedStar I: Battle Surgeons, a Clone Wars novel, is scheduled for release in July 2004 from Del Rey Books.Thoughts
The beautiful music part, the compassionate nurse who has the hots for a doctor, the Padawan on a mission without her master.
It all sounds like the material needed to head down the lane of NJO, where sappiness, corniness and downright unSW-likeness thrives.
That's a poor assumption there. If anything, MEdstar gives us insight into how the war affected someone other than just the clone troopers and the high profile jedi and sith. It tells us the story of those who made the war effort possible. And it is a very good duology. If anything is unlike SW, it's that piece of crap Jedi Trial.