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    Lockdown: Star Wars Legends (Maul)
    Lockdown: Star Wars Legends (Maul)
    Lockdown: Star Wars Legends (Maul)
    Audiobook12 hours

    Lockdown: Star Wars Legends (Maul)

    Written by Joe Schreiber

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis

    3.5/5

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Set before the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, this new novel is a thrilling follow-up to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis.
     
    It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the galaxy’s worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the profits of the illicit blood sport. But the newest contender in this savage arena, as demonic to behold as he is deadly to challenge, is fighting for more than just survival. His do-or-die mission, for the dark masters he serves, is to capture the ultimate weapon: an object that will enable the Sith to conquer the galaxy.
     
    Sith lords Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious are determined to possess the prize. And one of the power-hungry duo has his own treacherous plans for it. But first, their fearsome apprentice must take on a bloodthirsty prison warden, a cannibal gang, cutthroat crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and an unspeakable alien horror. No one else could brave such a gauntlet of death and live. But no one else is the dreaded dark-side disciple known as Darth Maul.

    Praise for Lockdown
     
    “Schreiber . . . was a great choice for this novel, imbuing the story with a dark, foreboding tone while never quite stepping into the horror territories that Death Troopers and Red Harvest took us.”—Jedi News
     
    “Fans of the dark side should rejoice. Lockdown delivers a can’t-put-this-down tale of scum and villainy.”—Club Jade
     
    “[Lockdown is] an action-packed ride that spins one entertaining chapter after another. The multiple layers of story keeps readers guessing what will happen next and just who will live and who will die. . . . It certainly adds to the character of Darth Maul while matching [Darth] Plagueis’s complexity with sheer fun. . . . Five out of five metal bikinis.”—Roqoo Depot
     
    “Somehow, Schreiber is able to skate the line between hard-hitting prison story and the adventure and excitement I love from Star Wars in a way that doesn’t betray either genre. It’s really quite masterful.”—Big Shiny Robot
     
    “Lockdown is an exciting, engaging read. . . . It actually lines up beautifully for a sequel, which I, for one, would love to read.”—Coffee with Kenobi
     
    “The novel makes The Clone Wars better. It also illuminates The Phantom Menace. I think it’s the hallmark of the best tie-in fiction to resonate throughout other parts of the expanded universe in that way.”—Knights’ Archive
     
    “By the fiftieth page, I was hooked. . . . Lockdown is a wonderful ‘antihero’ novel, where it’s just fine to root for the villain, because there are even worse things out there. This book was so fun and entertaining. I’ll have to keep an eye out for more Star Wars books from Schreiber.”—Seattle Geekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9780804191722
    Author

    Joe Schreiber

    JOE SCHREIBER is the New York Times bestselling author of adult novels Death Troopers, Chasing the Dead, and Eat the Dark. His other novels for young people include, the critically acclaimed Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Perry's Killer Playlist, and Lenny Cyrus, School Virus. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and children.

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    • 5/5
      There is once a Sith and his padawan. These two people or rather human and alien's names are Darth Maul and Darth Sidious. These people are very dark people. These people are sith. The sith are people who oppose the Jedi, the people of the force. Darth Maul has a very hard mission to complete. He has to go to prison.
      This mission is to get into a prison and find an arms dealer who posses a weapon which can help the sith take over the galaxy. This weapon is very deadly. Darth Maul has to penetrate a jail and survive jail fights and arena fights without using the force. This will be a very hard task but if anyone can do it Darth Maul can. He has been trained very hard and this is what Maul has been trained for, endurance, strength, and power. Hopefully it will turn out well because if it doesn't succeed then he will die.
    • 4/5
      I was immediately drawn in, but also wondered if I would be able to stomach the rest of the book. The idea of Darth Maul fighting to the death inside a prison felt like a great idea, but the plot develops into something much more complicated, unfortunately. It started to drag on and on. It became difficult to understand and believe everything that was going on.

      I appreciated the intent of trying to do something unique in Star Wars literature, but I wanted something a little more simplified and easier to follow.
    • 3/5
      There were some things I liked about this book and some things I didn't. I liked the brutality--Schreiber brings a grittiness to his Star Wars novels that is often lacking from a universe so constantly mired in war. There was a lot of action, a lot of stuff going on, plots and subplots, so overall it was fun.

      The stuff I didn't like was a little on the nitpicky side. I didn't like that one of the characters was a Noghri, long before their discovery, for no apparent reason. I didn't like the mention of Wayland, presumably before Palpatine had established his storehouse there (although perhaps not). I didn't like that Maul seemed soft, and almost even a little tender, in some of his interactions with Eogan Truax and Komari Vosa. Some of the dialogue is clumsy and a little dumb.

      At any rate, I'm hoping that the upcoming Star Wars movies will nullify much of the Extended Universe; I imagine they will. If this book happens to be among the casualties, I won't shed any tears.
    • 4/5
      In a galaxy far, far away there lays a prison turned battle arena with an unexpected visitor. Sent to find a man who may or may not exist, Darth Maul has to wade his way through vicious guards, prisoners, and other wildlife that haunt the unfinished corridors of the prison. It is always interesting to see the Star Wars universe from the point of the Sith, and as such the ending is not conclusive and pleasingly dark.

      Free review copy.
    • 4/5
      I really like the character of Darth Maul. Probably have liked the character since the second part of his staff lightsaber lit up in The Phantom Menace. It was more than just the new cool weapon, there was a difference between him and Darth Vader too. For one thing, there was so much more room for his backstory, and in this expanded universe sort of Star Wars novel we get part of that backstory.

      Maul is on Cog Hive Seven to look for someone or something. Cog Hive Seven is a prison, but it’s also more. It’s a space station that can rearrange itself, and there’s a legend that a guy named Radique lives there and runs his shady business from inside. From there the story gets very complicated with multiple sides having multiple agendas, there are twists, turns, feints and bobs, not to mention quite the turn of the worm.

      I was a little disappointed with who Radique turned out to be. And while some of the twists and turns were interesting, some of the others weren't’ as cool as I’d thought they’d be. Here and there I felt like, ‘that’s it, that’s the big twist?’

      Weirdly enough I sorta started liking some of the characters in the novel, chief among them, the kid, Eogan. Which surprised me since at the beginning none of the characters were greatly likable.

      It was also cool that there was a little bit of Dune (the addictive spice) and a little bit of Battlestar Galactica (the world fracking used as a swear). And are elevators really called turbolifts in Star Wars too? (I don’t think I’ve read enough Star Wars novels to know that).

      Overall I really liked the book. Although there was a scene, the pressure cooker in the kitchen that hit me weirdly. Probably because of the fact that the two guys used pressure cookers to make their bombs when they hit the Boston Marathon in 2013. It just threw me for a loop for a second though.

      I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Random House Publishing Group - Del Rey Spectra and LucasBooks.
    • 5/5
      Joe Schreiber has done it again. While not a straight horror novel as with his previous Star Wars entries I found it both engaging and thrilling. Basically take the Star Wars universe and ad dashes of the films Cube, Mortal Kombat, and The Usual Suspects, shake well and serve. Additionally, if you're a Rush fan, keep an eye on the chapter titles for a little bit of fun.