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Star Wars: A Forest Apart (Short Story)

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Originally published as an e-book coinciding with the release of the novel Tatooine Ghost, Troy Denning's A Forest Apart is a short story following Chewbacca, his wife Mallatobuck, and his son Lumpy on a adventure into the bowels of Coruscant. Malla and Lumpy are visiting Chewie at his Coruscant apartment when a break-in at the next-door Solo place turns out to have more serious ramifications. The Wookiees follow the burglars and end up unearthing an Imperial plot set in place by an old tool of the villainous Ysanne Isard.

There's a lot of action in a short space but not much time for meaningful character development. Lumpy is a pre-teen striving to find his place in the world, and Chewbacca's perpetual absence in his life may have left a gaping hole as far as having a father figure to look up to. There's not enough pages to explore this theme with much depth, and in the end the issue is dropped, since on a practical level Lumpy can't live with his father chasing all over the galaxy anyway. The theme of the impact a Wookiee Life Debt has on the Wookiee holding it and on his/her family is an interesting one that could be explored in more detail with a longer story.

Unlike many novels which handle Chewie's communications by having him grunt and then having a nearby character paraphrase what he said, Denning makes the wise choice of letting the Wookiees speak as normal characters and simply puts brackets to indicate they are actually using their native tongue. It's always enjoyable seeing Chewbacca in action, and even though this story doesn't really add anything significant to the larger saga, it's an entertaining diversion.

I'm not really sure where it actually fits into the overall story line.

This story involves only Chewie and his wife and son. The other characters are only mentioned in passing. It was enjoyable and well written but I was glad it was very short and didn't keep me from the main story for very long.

In this Short Story Chewbacca takes the center stage, We meet his child Lumpy and his life mate Malla. I thought this Father and son story really mirrored the story of Worf and Alexander from Star Trek, I know I'm mixing genres here but their relationship was very similar.

Lumpy who lives on Kasyyk With Chewy's Life mate Malla, has grown up hearing all the stories of Chewy and Han Solo and their adventures, He rarely gets to see dear old dad, and wants to impress him, when Lumpy stumbles on to a robbery of the solo's apartment next door it's his chance, only this break in was part of a master plan to lure Chewbacca into a trap.

Ysanne Isard the villain from X-wing books 1-4 and 8 is mentioned in this story. It takes place on Corecursant directly after Tatooine Ghost (Star Wars)

It's good for a short read and if you want to read every story in the Star Wars Universe lie me then it is a must.

A great little chapter to read on my Kindle, but not necessarily worth the price. It would have been a nice addition to The Courtship of Princess Leia or an add on to Tatooine Ghost. I liked it, but when it doesn't even rate being published as a paperback; an avid Star Wars fan you will need to be to download and read this eBook.