Star Wars: Millennium Falcon

mass market paperback, 384 pages

Published Nov. 24, 2009 by LucasBooks.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-51005-1

(4 reviews)

Millennium Falcon (2008) is a novel by James Luceno set in the Star Wars expanded universe about the history of Han Solo's starship, the Millennium Falcon. It was originally set to be released on December 30, 2008, but was pushed up to October 21, 2008. At the end of the book is an introduction to the novel Outcast, the first novel in the Fate of the Jedi series.

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A. Rivera reviewed Star Wars: Millennium Falcon by James Luceno

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2 stars

I really wanted to like this book, but somewhere around page 100 or so it just started to drag. The idea behind it, the history of the Millennium Falcon, is a good one. But the execution left much to be desired, and the ending, to be honest, was a let down. The story is told in various vignettes, and it goes back and forth between the novel's present (in the SW Legacy era) all the way back to the Clone Wars and then back and forth. Some of the old stories are nice, but they are not particularly riveting. For the hardcore fans, this book is probably a must, but for the more casual fan, I would consider it optional. There is a lot of foreshadowing of things to come, so my guess is some of those things you may see in future Star Wars novels. Compared to Luceno's other …

I really wanted to like this book, but somewhere around page 100 or so it just started to drag. The idea behind it, the history of the Millennium Falcon, is a good one. But the execution left much to be desired, and the ending, to be honest, was a let down. The story is told in various vignettes, and it goes back and forth between the novel's present (in the SW Legacy era) all the way back to the Clone Wars and then back and forth. Some of the old stories are nice, but they are not particularly riveting. For the hardcore fans, this book is probably a must, but for the more casual fan, I would consider it optional. There is a lot of foreshadowing of things to come, so my guess is some of those things you may see in future Star Wars novels. Compared to Luceno's other novel, Dark Lord (the one about Darth Vader, which I read and reviewed here), this one was really disappointing for me. It was just ok.