
Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars
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Narrated by:
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Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes
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By:
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Sam Maggs
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Cal Kestis leads the Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal's crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. More important, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy's future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire the Mantis crew grows more daring.
On what should be a routine mission, they meet a stormtrooper determined to chart her own course with the help of Cal and the crew. In exchange for help starting a new life, the Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable tool for their fight against the Empire. And even better, she can help them get to it. The only catch-pursuing it will bring them into the path of one of the Empire's most dangerous servants, the Inquisitor known as the Fifth Brother.
Can the Imperial deserter truly be trusted? And while Cal and his friends have survived run-ins with the Inquisitors before, how many times can they evade the Empire before their luck runs out?
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it's okay, bridges the 2 games just not very well
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Jedi: Battle Scars
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So, yeah, this was fun—so many great moments.
Return of the pink poncho!
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I question whether the author understands the universe or the established characters. So much attention is paid to Merrin that the other character, particularly Cere, fade to the background. Cal also comes across as a support just to facilitate Merrin's narrative.
Merrin's romance overtakes the universe, giving a Mills and Boon-esque romance with a Star Wars filter feel.
The book is further let down by the narration and audio effects. Though if the intent was to appeal to a young audience, maybe it isn't as bad as it seems to me as an older listener.
Overall, the story is reasonably self contained with a potential for call backs in the upcoming game. Unfortunately I didn't enjoy this book. I'd even go so far as to say that it has changed my opinions of the characters, given their clumsy handling.
Disappointing
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Just a bit if fun
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This Narrator is trash
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The characters act unrecognisably from their videogame counterparts. I was eager to hear of Cal's adventures inbetween the two games but he seems so listless and not a protagonist at all. This is Merrin's book, which would be fine if she acted like her character and not like fanfic. Disappointing for fans who wanted to see Cal and her get together.
The narrator does a decent job but there are moments where the way something is delivered doesn't really match how the book states the character said it. Due to the lack of action scenes expect to be treated to an abundance of the ship's hum sound in the background.
This is as i stated at the start only a review of the first half but i don't see it getting better. Just play the games instead.
Merrin romance fanfic masquerading as a heist
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Boring soap opera in space
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After the excitement of Jedi fallen order, this is a massive disappointment
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