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Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2021
Joe Schreiber continues to write the worst Star Wars books ever that are just good for curiosity value or a book you can tell someone you actually read. I can say at least this book is better than Red Harvest, but that's not saying much.
The zombies are rather late to the party, though I guess it's because Joe wanted the slow burn horror aspect to be a big part of the novel. I mean he wanted to basically make this kind of Alien or Aliens just switch Xenomorphs out for zombies and also set it in Star Wars. Again most of the characters are unlikable except for the two elephant in the room surprise characters who shouldn't have been a surprise in this book. I mean just go with it, proudly state you have Han Solo and Chewbacca battling zombies and you'd probably sell more books. Should of made them the main focus of the whole book since they are pretty much the best characters here.
Though Joe gets to actually write a chapter where we have Chewbacca almost turn into a zombie, which is bizarre in itself, I never thought I would have read something like that. I again question how this got passed George Lucas at the Lucas Books publishing desk. I can only imagine Lucas sat there and just nodded and fell asleep while listening to Schreiber talking thinking of midi-chlorians or something.
The other characters are not many, should have had more than 6 characters here. And two of those being more stupid teenagers like in Red Harvest. One of them being a jerk Imperial captain character who disappears for large portions of the book at times.
And even the virus itself doesn't match up with the virus from Red Harvest and raises more questions about is this the same stupid virus from that novel considering it's called "The Sickness" too here but things about are different because it here spreads around like a contagion killing people first and then they become zombies.
Which thanks, Joe Schreiber, I read the Stand and I always wanted to read it happening on an Imperial prison barge spaceship. You are definitely no Stephen King though.
Then the novel goes off on tangents having cannibal survivors at one point show up on the Star Destroyer to add to the body count fodder . And finally revealing the Empire developed the sickness as a weapon apparently. I question Vader and the Emperor giving an Okay to any of that.
Oh boy is this novel even worse than any of those Sequel films Disney came up with actually.
The zombies are rather late to the party, though I guess it's because Joe wanted the slow burn horror aspect to be a big part of the novel. I mean he wanted to basically make this kind of Alien or Aliens just switch Xenomorphs out for zombies and also set it in Star Wars. Again most of the characters are unlikable except for the two elephant in the room surprise characters who shouldn't have been a surprise in this book. I mean just go with it, proudly state you have Han Solo and Chewbacca battling zombies and you'd probably sell more books. Should of made them the main focus of the whole book since they are pretty much the best characters here.
Though Joe gets to actually write a chapter where we have Chewbacca almost turn into a zombie, which is bizarre in itself, I never thought I would have read something like that. I again question how this got passed George Lucas at the Lucas Books publishing desk. I can only imagine Lucas sat there and just nodded and fell asleep while listening to Schreiber talking thinking of midi-chlorians or something.
The other characters are not many, should have had more than 6 characters here. And two of those being more stupid teenagers like in Red Harvest. One of them being a jerk Imperial captain character who disappears for large portions of the book at times.
And even the virus itself doesn't match up with the virus from Red Harvest and raises more questions about is this the same stupid virus from that novel considering it's called "The Sickness" too here but things about are different because it here spreads around like a contagion killing people first and then they become zombies.
Which thanks, Joe Schreiber, I read the Stand and I always wanted to read it happening on an Imperial prison barge spaceship. You are definitely no Stephen King though.
Then the novel goes off on tangents having cannibal survivors at one point show up on the Star Destroyer to add to the body count fodder . And finally revealing the Empire developed the sickness as a weapon apparently. I question Vader and the Emperor giving an Okay to any of that.
Oh boy is this novel even worse than any of those Sequel films Disney came up with actually.
