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I was highly anticipating this novel in advance of the movie. Unfortunately, Chuck Wendig's style of prose is, at best, the level of a teenager in the midst of transcribing a podcast into a chat bar. Basely put, the novel reads like a hodge podge of hastily formed ideas with little flow or engaging description. Other writers in Science Fiction and Fantasy, like Tom Holt, Andy Weir, or Timothy Zahn can actually paint a scene with words that are not describing what you'd see on a movie screen, but describing a feeling of that scene that elicits a visual from the reader, for them to fill in as the scene is rounded out with cues. Chuick, unfortunately, cannot give cues, and only gives stuttered phrases and colons. Gods help me, if I see another colon, or question mark used in a sentence that doesn't need it, or flat shouldn't have it, I will stab this book. Now - for the above review in the style of Chuck's writing: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Then: The local bookstore. Fancy. High priced. I was anticipating the book. Before the movie. Bridges the two together. It must be good, and if it is not? I will be disappointed. I read the lines. Words flash past. Symbols. Annoying. Now: A break in the chapter only two paragraphs in. Every two paragraphs. A break. Does this mean? What, I don't know. I cannot continue further, for I cannot read this out in my head. Wanted to say 'aloud' there, but some reason, author chose the odd word instead. Other authors write well. Not here. Not this time. We must break sentences. We must use all the: Colons. After reading this book? You'll need: A colon-oscopy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, I'll struggle through this piece of 90's Fan-Fiction.net trash just to bridge the gap for the movie plot so I know what happens. It remains, as far as I can give it credit for so far, one of the worst novels I have ever read. I am sorely disappointed in Disney and Lucasfilm for not endeavoring to market a writer with better prose, who can truly immerse a reader with words. Chuck, instead of attempting to weave a story, attempts to write a movie transcript and publish it like a novel. Loosely adapted for it's form, it does horrible injustice to the genre, and to the lore of Star Wars. It could have been a truly great canon that would ride alongside the original movies. I once held hope that the new movies would make up for the failings of the Prequels. I hoped that perhaps they would speak to an older audience, more mature in their yearnings for plot and twist. Now, I am fearful that Episode 7 will only be a short-sighted Fan-Fiction script with a few token cameos. Help us, anyone else with skill in prose that doesn't come from trashy Fan-Fiction world, you're our only hope.