Lots and lots of topics I've been meaning to cover. I was originally planning to post them all at once, but I didn't want to subject you to that 4,000 word monster all at once, so I'm splitting it up over the next couple of weeks

Apologies for not commenting on many blogs lately. So many entries to read, so little time ; /
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This is a rather non-spoilery review, but if you're like me and don't want to know anything about something you haven't seen/read yet.... Stop reading.

I disliked it, which is a real shame, since I liked the previous Legacy novel (Betrayal). To offset the scathing nature of this review here's a quick little picture I did of Mr. Fett. I'm not completely happy with my attempt to transfer him to the Clone Wars style I've been working in, but it's far more successful than my first attempt (which was so laughable it shall forever remain offline).

The reason for my disliking Bloodlines may be the fact that I'm a mean old man with a bias for the Original Trilogy (our ships had wires holding them up, and that's the way we liked it, gorramit!)

Honestly though, this book takes place 62 years after the Prequels. How many times do we really need to reference them?

By the end of the book I just felt bad for Fett, not because of all these supposed emotional problems he's having, but because (by my estimation) he's thought of his papa 7,820,185,248 times over the course of the past 6 decades. Or 6.7 times per minute. You'd think Boba could become his own person and stop thinking about Jango after that many years, but apparently every single time someone breathes, drinks something, or eats, our dear old Boba thinks of papa, because he used to do those things!

Boba's haphazard devotion to Mandalorian culture also confused me. He never learned, or wished to learn, even basic Mando language. Yet he believes very firmly that when someone turns 13 he is then a man. This even goes so far that another character reminds him that not all people in the galaxy think that way. Gee, you'd think that Fett would have picked up on that over his 50+ years of bounty hunting, but I guess not.

Related to that, did Ben Skywalker really need to think about Mandalorian boys becoming men when they turn 13 twice? Once was enough to club me over the head with the attempt to tie the two plots together, thank you.

Jacen continues to be the character I want to love, but can't. Once again because he sets off my common sense radar repeatedly. Jacen received his "look at me, I can make prequel connections!" time-walking power in the last book. This makes his entire "need" for Sith training from the last living Sith completely contrived, he could Time-Walk back and watch any Jedi Master or Sith instruct their own students in the decades past - or even eons perhaps.

I'm still going to pick up the next book (Tempest), but I'm a bit more concerned with where they're headed with Legacy now. I don't like when they do 160 degree turns (not quite 180 ) with decades old characters, all but ignoring expanded universe lore in favor of Prequel snippets.

Ugh, I wish Boba had stayed in the Sarlacc.
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