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    The Crystal Star: Star Wars Universe
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    The Crystal Star: Star Wars Universe
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    The Crystal Star: Star Wars Universe

    Written by Vonda N. McIntyre

    Narrated by Anthony Heald

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    About this audiobook

    Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre continues the bestselling Star Wars saga as the ultimate space adventure unfolds in The Crystal Star.

    Princess Leia's children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers' trail to a disabled refugee ship, from which children are also missing. Here she learns of a powerful Imperial officer with a twisted plan to restore the Empire. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are cut off from Leia by the death of a nearby star, which has caused a disruption in the Force. They have gone to the planet Crseih to investigate a report of a lost group of Jedi. Instead they find a charismatic alien named Waru whose miraculous healing powers have attracted a fanatic following. As Leia follows the path of her children across space, Luke and Han draw closer to the truth behind Waru's sinister cult. Together they will face an explosive showdown that will decide the survival of the New Republic . . . and the universe itself!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 20, 2007
    ISBN9780553754650
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    The Crystal Star: Star Wars Universe
    Author

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    Vonda N. McIntyre is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books. McIntyre won her first Nebula Award in 1973, for the novelette “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.” This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake (1978), which was rejected by the first editor who saw it, but went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. McIntyre was the third woman to receive the Hugo Award. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels. Visit her online at VondaNMcIntyre.com.

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    • 5/5
      This has always been my favorite Star Wars novel.
    • 2/5
      I don't remember much about this book except that Han and Leia's children are finally old enough to have personalities. Jacen is a sweet kid, Jaina loves taking apart various droids, and Anakin is far too powerful in the Force for his own good.
    • 2/5
      I had a lot of hope for this book. The kids are kidnapped and exploited, A lot of political intrigue, but that's where the plus side ends.This to me read like a phone book. its slow to pick up and really doesn't..out of all of the star wars books I have read I think this is my least favorite.
    • 4/5
      Right from the beginning: Leia’s children have been stolen, Chewbacca injured, along with Han Solo and Luke Skywalker gone on a Jedi scavenger hunt. Leia feels helpless, and will not stop until her children are safe. She quickly decides that she must rescue her children from the possible Dark side influence that she felt. Vonda McIntyre’s The Crystal Star is a great, moving novel that develops unexplored concepts and characters of its time. Although the book does develop for the first time multiple characters such as Jaina and Jacen, the roles such as Leia, Han, and Luke did not capture the characters the way the canon universe have developed them. I had found many parts hard to follow such as the physical concept of Waru. Along with that, after the book had finished, many questions were left unanswered. Overall it was a very different styled Star Wars book, but it wasn’t terrible.
    • 1/5
      Pretty much the most horrible book published under the Star Wars name. Characterization, prose, dialogue, plot...it's all spectacularly awful.I threw this book across the room after willing myself to finish it. Please don't bother unless that kind of thing amuses you.
    • 3/5
      Leia Organa Solo discovers that her three children have been abducted and sets out in pursuit, while Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are on an independent investigation that, thanks to the plot-generating power of the Force, just happens to link up with the abductor. The main adult characters all spend the book seeming significantly confused and less rational than their depictions in other works.