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Why is there such virulent criticism of Barbara Hambly's Star Wars books? Having recently gotten back into the fandom, I've been rereading a lot of the Star Wars novels I first read as a kid, and I feel like Hambly's texts are hated unfairly. Of course everyone loves the Zahn books, and rightly so. Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy does not hold up with age, in my opinion, and Steve Perry's Shadows of the Empire is simply badly written. The Hambly texts have been my favorite re-reads. Her characterization is deeper and more vibrant than other Star Wars authors--Dave Wolverton may be her closest second. The characters we care most about, especially Luke and Leia, go on actual inner journeys in her books, rather than simply being shifted around the galaxy to populate action scenes. Their ethical struggles, when they have to confront their own limitations, make hard moral choices, and grow as people, are what give a cogent throughline to the space dogfights and blaster battles we all love in the galaxy far, far away. Is it because she's a female author and thereby denied credibility in sci-fi, a traditionally male-dominated space both for fans and creators? Anyway, I'll stand up for Hambly among her many detractors. I'm no Callista fan--I think Luke functions best as a character as a noble loner and Callista as an individual never won me over--but I think as a writer, Hambly can take her place with Zahn as among the best Star Wars authors. Give her a chance if you'd like to see the minds and hearts, not just the names and faces, of our favorite farmboy, princess, and smuggler.


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Planet of Twilight Star Wars Barbara Hambly Books Reviews

I have read her first installment in the "Callista" trilogy and finished this one. Her books starts off way to slow. I only got this book to complete the trilogy. Her saving grace are the endings. They start off long and dragging, but her endings are quite intense. This book in particular took a bit to get into. If you can power through the first half of the book, you will be rewarded with a nice twist and surprising character pop ups. Her first book, "The Children of the Jedi" is much better. Get this book only if you want to finish the series, other wise, skip this series.
This book is pretty decent. The storyline opens up early on and you feel that it will be a big blockbuster, but that never really happens. Hambly's writing style was fairly unique compared to many other writers in the expanded universe. She brings with her some of her own terminology and some unnecessary sexual references, but nothing that really detracts from the experience. I
would recommend to any Star Wars fan to give this book a shot, just don't expect something zahn-esque.
There are some of these books that are just hard to read, and this is one of them.
i do not care for the author's writing style....it is labored and makes getting through the book very difficult...i ended up just skimming through the final 1/3 of the book cause i was too bored to finish it
This is my second read of this and I love it just as much this time. Very creepy subject matter and a good to see Leia move forward a little in her journey to Jedi.

They also took the time to resolve (if a little clumsily) the matter of Callista, Luke's would be paramour. Afterall, they needed to clear the way for a certain firy-haired ex-smuggler to take her rightful place in that regard...
I enjoyed this book. Interesting story. The author kept me intrigued as to what would happen next. I will look for other Star Wars books by this author.
Barbara Hambly's Planet of Twilight is the end of the unofficial "Callista Trilogy," started in Hambly's other Star Wars novel Children of the Jedi and continued in Kevin J. Anderson's Darksaber. I didn't much care for Children of the Jedi, finding its plot derivative and the prose rather unwieldy. The character of Callista was also problematic, feeling more like a plot device than a thought-out realistic person. Luke Skywalker's relationship with Callista came off as more ridiculous than romantic, and Darksaber, despite some exciting action scenes and a fairly brisk plot, didn't do anything to deepen it.

Planet of Twilight represents a step up from Children of the Jedi thanks to a more original and involving storyline, but one thing it doesn't do is wrap up the Luke/Callista romance well. Their love truly ends with a whimper rather than a bang and it's hard not to feel it was a waste of time reading about it. That said, in real life some relationships go the same way, so perhaps it can be viewed as a small building block towards Luke's more meaningful relationships later in life.

Planet of Twilight focuses on the mad ambitions of Seti Ashgad to rule the galaxy by means of the hideous Death Seed plague, a feared disease wrongly believed to have been wiped out centuries earlier. Ashgad is isolated on the well-detailed planet of Nam Chorios. Hambly puts a great deal of effort into describing the locale and its many environmental quirks, most noticeably the vile insect-like drochs that lurk in every dark corner. While I can't say I found the planet exactly enjoyable to learn about, it was certainly memorable, no small feat in the vast Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Luke is portrayed with more strength than the last couple of novels granted him and it is a welcome change. There's only so much I can take of reading about a sickly, weak Luke barely able to put one foot in front of another (I'm looking at you, Children of the Jedi). However, this time around we do get a large number of chapters featuring a drugged and sickly Princess Leia, so the net effect is a wash. Most of the other usual film cast is present, but the Luke/Leia storyline is given precedence over the Han/Chewie/Lando and C-3PO/R2-D2 "B" plots. I found Han's adventures confusing and struggled with what he was trying to accomplish in some chapters.

Like Children of the Jedi, Planet of Twilight is overly verbose and I was glad to get to the end of it. Both novels feel curiously detached from Star Wars, almost as if Hambly had written original sci-fi novels and then simply pasted the Star Wars characters into them. There's little of the typical sweeping space opera adventure to be found in either book. Sometimes it's nice to have a change of pace in these stories, but this particular direction didn't do much for me. I was glad to see the end of the Callista storyline and look forward to reading the ninth book in the X-wing series next.
Why is there such virulent criticism of Barbara Hambly's Star Wars books? Having recently gotten back into the fandom, I've been rereading a lot of the Star Wars novels I first read as a kid, and I feel like Hambly's texts are hated unfairly. Of course everyone loves the Zahn books, and rightly so. Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy does not hold up with age, in my opinion, and Steve Perry's Shadows of the Empire is simply badly written. The Hambly texts have been my favorite re-reads. Her characterization is deeper and more vibrant than other Star Wars authors--Dave Wolverton may be her closest second. The characters we care most about, especially Luke and Leia, go on actual inner journeys in her books, rather than simply being shifted around the galaxy to populate action scenes. Their ethical struggles, when they have to confront their own limitations, make hard moral choices, and grow as people, are what give a cogent throughline to the space dogfights and blaster battles we all love in the galaxy far, far away. Is it because she's a female author and thereby denied credibility in sci-fi, a traditionally male-dominated space both for fans and creators? Anyway, I'll stand up for Hambly among her many detractors. I'm no Callista fan--I think Luke functions best as a character as a noble loner and Callista as an individual never won me over--but I think as a writer, Hambly can take her place with Zahn as among the best Star Wars authors. Give her a chance if you'd like to see the minds and hearts, not just the names and faces, of our favorite farmboy, princess, and smuggler.