Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force) [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD)

by Aaron Allston (Author), Marc Thompson (Reader)

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Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacen’s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory–whatever the price.

While Luke grieves the loss of his beloved wife and deals with his guilt over killing the wrong person in retaliation, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk hunt for the real assassin, unaware that the culprit commands Sith powers that can cloud their minds and misdirect their attacks–and even turn them back on themselves.

As Luke and Ben Skywalker struggle to find their place among the chaos, Jacen, shunned by friends and family, launches an invasion to rescue the only person still loyal to him. But with the battle raging on, and the galaxy growing more turbulent and riotous, there’s no question that it is Jacen who is most wanted: dead or alive.

About the Author
Aaron Allston is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars®: Legacy of the Force novels, Betrayal and Exile; Star Wars®: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures: Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand; novels in the popular Star Wars® X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas. Visit his website at www.AaronAllston.com.

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• Audio CD
• Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (November 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739324004
• ISBN-13: 978-0739324004
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #287,379 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fury signifying nothing, February 4, 2008

By	ShriDurga (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7) (Mass Market Paperback)

After two volumes filled with major events, The Legacy of the Force series returns to form in this seventh installment. For the most part, you could skip it and not miss much.

While author Aaron Allston delivers a well-plotted and fast-paced finale, the ending leaves the story right where it began, with Jacen politically and militarily isolated and seemingly finished. The promise of a helping hand from Korriban, hinted at the end of the previous volume, turns out to be a feint, and no one has yet figured out Jacen is a Sith or Mara's killer.

Neither have they figured out that he's lost all sense of proportion. In order to bring the Hapans back into the war for the Galactic Alliance, Jacen kidnaps his own daughter. The Hapans instead withdraw from any outside contact except for a secret mission to the Jedi, who devise a rather improbable mission to plant on Jacen's body a tracer housed in a tiny piece of cloth the same color and texture as his clothing. They can thereby track Jacen's whereabouts and eventually effect a rescue - but only so long as Jacen doesn't change his clothes.

As in Allston's previous volume, Exile, Jacen walks into an obvious trap, this time set up by the Corellians to fry his fleet using Centerpoint Station, implausibly revived after being scrapped by Ben and Jacen in Betrayal (also by Allston). While the as yet unannounced Sith Lord loiters in space waiting for Centerpoint to complete its firing sequence, he allows his mother to come aboard "to talk." Instead of throwing her in the brig, the pair chat away the minutes while the Corellians take aim and the stowaways on Leia's craft pilfer data from Jacen's computers. The entire sequence comprises a long list of contrivances that make you want to give up on the book altogether.

Meantime, in an asteroid field far away, Jaina, Jag and Zekk prepare for a final showdown with Alema Rar, who is also being hunted by a Sith from Korriban eager to retrieve purloined Sith artifacts. Among them is Ship, which in the ensuing chaos flees to the Sith homeworld of Ziost, the Korriban agent in pursuit.

Along the way two major Jedi sustain life-threatening injury, but miraculously live to fight another day. A last-minute method for destroying Centerpoint Station is discovered, and Jacen can manage to kill only a Jedi-newbie and one of his subordinates, proving that he's not such a bad-ass after all and continuing the devolution of his character from a villain who reluctantly took up the dark arts in an effort to save and protect society, to a blinkered madman divorced from any rational view of the universe.

My best guess is that the next volume won't advance the series much further, though we're likely to get some interesting material on Boba Fett.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars, February 17, 2008

By	Andromeda (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7) (Mass Market Paperback)

The newest installment of the Legecy of the Force: Fury if anyone is still completely in grossed in this series my hat's off to you. Its hard to feel anything but dread at this point. You know no matter how good the author tries to make it sound its going to be bad. At this point the only thing shocking is how each book is worse then the last.
Fury could have been exciting with Jacen kidnapping his daughter Allana, a group of Jedi attemmpting to kill him who were not made up of Solos and Skywalkers and the Jedi have to get Allana back. But once again like most of the series author sucked out any potential of being good...and I usually like Aaron Allston's books.
First off we have the kidnapping of Allana. Jacen only does it to get Tenel Ka to give him back her military. Not for turning her to the Dark side, making her his apprentice, or any of the more interesting reasons.
Not to mention its a sad pathetic day with a Sith has to resort to kidnapping a little girl to get anywhere. This is a problem with all three writers of Legecy none of them can make Jacen a compaling Sith. Sure he does bad things but he doesn't come off as frightening as Vader, as maniplative has Sidious or any of the thousands of other Sith. I mean could you really see Vader resorting to kidnapping a little girl in order to get Hapes to bend to his will? For all Jacen's talk of being idolizing Vader he seems to have missed everything that made everyone terrified of Vader...and apparently so have the writers.
Over in the Jedi camp we actually have a group of non-Solos and Skywalkers sent to kill Jacen. It could have been exciting except you know if Jacen's killed it'll be by one of his own relatives. But they were still more exciting then the Solos or the Skywalkers. Now how's that for sad? Perhaps if the Solos were allowed to do anything besides talk about how evil Jacen's become and he's dead to them or fight Alema again or rehash Jaina and her boyfriends (does anyone at this point care about Jaina-Jag-Zekk storyline)they might be worth reading. Having them rehash the same stuff book after book is not a story.
Its not like they are major charactors in the Star Wars Universe who's son or twin brother has turn to the Dark Side of the Force could have resulted in a wealth of plotlines for Han, Leia and Jaina....on wait they are.
Over in the Skywalker camp we have Luke who's still mourning the death of his wife. I'm glad to see someone is. Asside from Luke and Ben, everyone else seems to have forgot Mara ever existed. But neither of them did anything really interesting until the rescuing of Allana except thinking about how to kill Jacen without turning to the Dark Side. Standing around talking is not a plot.
Last but not least Leia and Han learning Allana's their granddaughter. Something that should have been interesting and exciting since we've been waiting through seven books to happen but of course it was a big let down. Leia simply realizes Allana's her granddaughter and that's it. The tragedy is this series could have been really good instead each book it gets worse and worse. With only two books left I have little doubt they'll be any good.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Legacy of the Force: Fury, April 22, 2008

By	Barbara Lachmanek (Southern AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 7) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a disappointing read after 'Inferno'. Aaron Allston writes a good book, but this book wasn't the greatest.

Jacen/Caedus is very pathetic in this. Kidnapping his daughter to force his secret lover to turn her fleets over to him. How unbeleivable can you get! He spends a lot of time fuming about how unfair the rest of the galaxy is and how he is only doing what is best. To end this book he strangles, using the Force, a junior officer because she was not able to predict that a shuttle actually contained Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, another Jedi and some others to destract Jacen/Caedus and rescue Allana.

The Jedi are trying, unsuccessfully, to kill Jacen/Caedus and so far have succeeded in planting a tracer on him. Hopefully he won't change his clothes.

The Allana passages read like something out of a children's book. They could have been a book of their own. "What will I do if Jacen doesn't say the special words?" Ha, Ha, Ha.

Luke is still greiving over Mara's death and Ben is a little childish in the first half of the book. At least he grows up in the end.

Han and Leia have some very interesting scenes in this book. They had to go to some rather extreme lengths to gather some imformation to help Jaina, Jag, and Zekk track down Alema Rar. Now they have a good way to locate Jacen's/Caedus's ship.

Jaina, Jag, and Zekk are getting very close to locating Alema Rar. The breastplate and crushgaunts that Boba Fett sent proved very effective in the scene on the astroid. I won't say anymore on this cause that would be a spoiler.

The Confederation has unleashed an ancient superweapon in the Corellia system.

Luke and the Jedi plan an operation to rescue Allana and to destroy Centerpoint Station.

Wedge and Tycho get some brief scenes in this book and are now semi-allied with the Jedi, at least that is the case with Tycho, Wedge is diffently on the side of the Jedi.

I recommend this book only if you have read some of the other books in this series or have read a lot of the reviews for these book. Otherwise, you could skip this book.

May the Force be with us!!