Shadow Moon
Authors: George Lucas and Chris Claremont
Synopsis
13 years have passed since Alora
Dannon was saved by the hand of Willow Ofgood. She is now a sacred
princess and is treated as deity. Willow who is now a great sorcerer
must return to her and save her life from dangers unknown to her. He,
with help from 2 brownies and his best friend, an Eagle, must go through
many obstacles in order to reach her and take her to safety.
Review
This book blows! I should really
stop there but I feel I should elaborate upon the reason for this
conclusion.
I love the movie Willow. I had
thought that the 3 books following the story of Willow would be a great
read and continuation from the movie. This is hardly the case. As I
started reading I found many things that did not sit right with me. We
find Willow Ofgood called by another name to start with, Thorn
Drumheller. This is actually a good thing later on in the story but at
first its just confusing to the reader. He also has become a great
sorcerer with most of his power seeming to relate more to animals and
the earth itself than with spells and sorcery. He can talk to animals
and summon great healing power which he uses to heal trees and animals.
We find out that he is away from his family and is struggling whether or
not to go back to them. This is a complete contradiction to the
character I remember from the movie who would do anything to get back to
his family and be with them.
Willow decides that his path should
be family free thus he leaves them to see Alora Dannon on the 13th
birthday celibration. Along the way we meet some new characters and are
visited by old ones.
Willow is also confronted by some
mystical dark force of nothingness. This was reminiscent of the Great
Nothing from The Neverending Story. Silly. I still don’t get what it
is supposed to be.
I never really got any sense of real
description in this story. It seems that even the writers have little
clue about what they are writing about. This whole book seems to be in
existence simply because George Lucas wanted to write a book. Also
Chris Claremont should stick to comic books.
I actually stopped reading this book
in one of the latter chapters. This is due because I found an exact
duplicate paragraph within the same chapter. I refuse to read, for
pleasure, a book written so poorly that the authors have to repeat a
descriptive paragraph for whatever reason. Ridiculous!
I have not read the other 2 following
books and I never will. I have heard that these books are better than
the first one but I will never know. I will never recommend this book
to anyone and should just give it to Goodwill. Or use it to start fires
or something.
I am not really surprised though when
I think of George Lucas’s lack of story telling from watching the Star
Wars Pre-quels. Episode 1 is the biggest load of tripe to hit the big
screen in years leaving millions disappointed and wanting more. But
that’s for another review.
In conclusion this book blows! It is
a waste of paper. It is a waste of time to read it. It was a waste of
time to write it. The idea of the story should have vanished when Mr.
Lucas thought, “I’ll have an alien race of idiots I’ll call Gungans and
have them play an incredibly intricate part in the entire Star Wars
universe and every man, woman and child on the planet will love them!”
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