Also, much of the 'married couple' banter was kind of trite and smug. Zahn's dialogue is also quite bad, as I had difficulty imagining the character actually speaking as they do in this novel. There is, therefore, no sense of discovery for the mystery, as the Jedi are drawing conclusions and making deductions that would be impossible for the reader. There are several moments when Luke and Mara see a set of clues and draw some wildly implausible conclusion, which then turns out to be correct. I enjoyed seeing the mystery set up, and was interested to see a SW novel written with that genre in mind, but either the Jedi have super-human deductive capabilities, or Timothy Zahn doesn't get the idea of drawing logical conclusions. My dissapointment arises because the mystery aspect of the book is so implausible. I give it 3 instead of 2 stars only because there are some interesting action sequences, and in the end, it is a moderatly fun book. Timothy Zahn hooked me with his original Thrawn Trilogy, but I was ultimatly dissapointed with this outing.
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