I miss the Star Wars EU, I just kind of don't care about Disney's new canon at all? And the Rogue Squadron/Wraith Squadron books were always some of my favorite EU books. This one has the added bonus of having the central protagonist be not only a Gamorrean of enhanced intelligence, but having said Gamorrean use his sex appeal to disguise himself as a dancer not once but TWICE. It feels like Allston wrote this thing for me. ( )

This pertains to the Audiobook.

I have heard the occasional audiobook before and it is usually just some guy reading the book aloud. This one was several steps above. It had music, background sound effects, and the reader did at least a dozen different voices for different characters. The accents and voices fit the characters as well. Scut sounded an "evil Vong", Vort sounded deep and bass like I expect a Gammorean to sound and indescribable aliens sound screechy.

The story itself is quite good. I haven't read an X-wing series book in over 10 years so some of the characters have slipped my mind. Allston does a good job of catching us up on what has happened to these characters (as well as introduce a few new ones). The plot somewhat follows the events that happened in the Fate of the Jedi series, but if you haven't read those it wouldn't be a problem. It has to do with the reformed Wraith Squadron (an eclectic group of spies) determining if the Chief Army General is corrupt.

If you are looking for continuing stories of the main star wars characters, they do not appear in this book. Overall, I recommend Mercy Kill, and audiobook, for a good addition to the Star Wars EU. ( )

Awesome!

While it has been a while since I've read some X-Wing'ness, and I've forgotten most of who comprised Wraith Squadron, who can forgot a smart Gamorean who can pilot an X-Wing? Good ol' Piggy!

He is what made this work for me. The overall story of political intrigue and traitors between the GA and the New Empire was only so-so.

But like I said, Piggy/Voort was just great. And I have to admit, I never saw the whole Yuuzon Vong part coming. You could have knocked me over with a feather when it was revealed that Scut was Vong. I wish he had died an evil villian instead of really being a good guy. No Vong will ever be a good guy in my books.

So go read this! ( )

First time reading a Star Wars novel and I was impressed. I don't think this is the first book in the series, so at times I felt like I was missing a few things, but got into it pretty quickly. I *love* Wraith Squadron. These guys are awesome. Such a fun story.

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Enjoyable read, though bittersweet knowint it was Allston's last book. I need to go back and read (or re-read) some of his earlier X-Wing books). ( )