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A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated video game Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.
- Sales Rank: #2196 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 838 minutes
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96 of 103 people found the following review helpful.
The Best Star Wars War Story Out There
By Skuldren
Over the years, we’ve gotten a lot of different types of Star Wars books. From Goosebumps to straight up horror novels, to romance and mystery to prison and time travel. Amid all those books, warfare has been a common theme, after all it’s in the title of the movies. But very few have presented themselves as war stories. The Medstar duology dabbled in the genre by taking a stab at M.A.S.H. The New Jedi Order books delved into warfare, but it was a matter of space battles and lightsaber fights. Yet Battlefront: Twilight Company doesn’t side step the war by focusing on a hospital unit. Nor does it Star Wars it up with lightsabers and dogfights with starfighters. Instead, this book feels like an account of a real war. These are ground troops slugging it out on unremarkable alien worlds, watching their comrades die, and not seeing an end in sight for the war. The heroes of the rebellion are legends that are talked about but rarely glimpsed. It’s grim, it’s tense, it’s realistic, and through the battles and conflicts, the characters become real people with real stakes. This is Star Wars drama at it’s best. It shows the grim faces of the war that populates the films we love so much. It raises questions about all sides of the battle through varying perspectives, thus giving light to angles we don’t often see. In short, this is a book you need to read. It’s not often that a Star Wars story expands our view of the Star Wars universe.
Battlefront: Twilight Company explores several different viewpoint characters, but the focal point is Sergeant Namir. Namir is a squad leader in the Rebel Alliance’s 61st Mobile Infantry, also known as Twilight Company. As a grizzled veteran, he knows how to fight and strives to keep his people alive. Yet everything changes as they capture a high value Imperial target. With the Rebels retreating from the Mid Rim prior to the Battle of Hoth, this Imperial asset gives them a chance to strike back at the Empire and turn the tables. It leads to battles on far flung words and grueling campaigns in alien environments. The book puts the readers in the trenches with the soldiers as they sweat and bleed to stay alive. With Namir at its center, though, it’s not a rosy look at a band of freedom fighters striving to topple an evil empire. For Namir, fighting for the Rebel Alliance is just another war. He doesn’t have any stakes in the fight except to protect his people. He’s a soldier, it’s all he knows, and he’s good at it. Through the story, readers will get to learn more about him, his backstory, and what it is that makes him tick. The vast difference between him and big three—Luke, Han and Leia—makes his story rather refreshing. He’s not a wide eyed farm boy with Force skills, a scoundrel with a heart of gold, or a true believer of the Rebel cause. Instead, he’s something quite different.
Aside from Namir and several of the members of Twilight Company, the book also explores the Imperial side of things. On the planet Sullust, there’s a female stormtrooper named SP-457 who is used to show what it’s like for ordinary citizens who decide to join the ranks of the stormtrooper corps. SP-457’s story is interesting because it does not glamorize the Empire. They’re as complicated as any group, and with people like her, it shows how they’re not all mindless evil doers out for selfish kicks. Then there’s Captain Tabor, an Imperial instructor brought out of retirement by one of the Emperor’s favored servants, a prelate named Verge. Together they show a different viewpoint of the Empire, one that illustrates the differences between the old ways and the new. Verge is the prime example of what the Emperor’s New Order is creating. He’s as much a creature of their excess as he is a victim. On top of all of that, there’s the Imperial asset that Twilight Company captures who adds yet another viewpoint to it all. From all of the different perspectives, the entire picture slowly comes into view. But the surprising thing isn’t that they all show one crystal clear picture, it’s that they show just how complicated and messy the whole thing is. In the war between the Empire and the Rebels, there are a lot of shades of gray, and allegiances are not set in stone.
It’s worth noting that the book does jump around a bit. The main storyline follows Twilight Company in their present battles, goes through the Battle of Hoth, and then shows the battles that follow leading all the way up to Sullust. Scattered throughout that are flashbacks of Namir’s past life on a backwater planet riddled by war. Those scenes help reveal clues about his character. The book also jumps around from the different viewpoint characters. So while most of the book focuses on Twilight Company, you get a handful of chapters on SP-457 and her experiences on Sullust, which ties in later in the book. There’s also Tabor and Verge who get another handful of chapters as they hunt down Twilight Company. Everything comes together in the end and the format works well to break things up and showcase the different views of the war.
The highlight of the book, however, is how well Alexander Freed nails the feel of a war story. I’ve read a lot of war biographies, and Battlefront: Twlight Company feels like a soldier’s account of his campaign in the Galactic Civil War. The little details of battle, the discussions between the soldiers in their downtime, the bond between them, and the violence of war, it’s all captured brilliantly. This feels real. There’s no better way to put it than that. Yet it’s not just they way Freed captures a soldier’s story, but how he uses it to illuminate the complexities of the conflict. Everyone in this story has a different motivation for what they do, and none of them are straightforward. They’re all products of their experiences and mysteries for the readers to explore and discover. Even by the end of the book, not all of those questions about the characters are answered, but there are a enough clues for the reader to make their own conclusions. It’s satisfyingly complex, immersive and moving. If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like for a soldier in the Rebel Alliance, this is the book you need to read.
Having read over two hundred Star Wars books, it takes a lot to stand out and make an impression. What’s really impressive is that this is Alexander Freed’s first novel. With Battlefront: Twilight Company, he tells a war story like we’ve never seen before in Star Wars. It’s gripping, stirring storytelling that throws readers straight into the trenches with the soldiers of the Rebel Alliance. Who will live? Who will die? It’s all another step forward in the war against the Empire. I give it a five out of five.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Bringing the wars back to Star Wars!
By James Floyd
Battlefront: Twilight Company is a good, solid novel for the military sci-fi reader. The world of Star Wars is no stranger to video game tie-in fiction, and has done so quite well with the X-Wing series and Republic Commando series, both now Legends. First time novelist Alexander Freed hits the mark by pulling the reader in for a trip with the men and women of Twilight Company, formally the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, one of the Rebel Alliance’s toughest units, during the original trilogy era.
The tale mostly follows the story of Hazram Namir, a veteran of constant civil warfare on his homeworld, and now a squad leader in Twilight Company, as the unit goes from making holds for the Rebellion through retreats, survival, and a new campaign to jam up the Imperial machine. There’s also Everi Chalis, a former Imperial governor, now along for the ride with Twilight, with her knowledge of Imperial secrets – and her own agenda. There are new recruits, hardened warriors, and even a few familiar faces as Twilight Company fights to achieve their goals while just surviving. While there’s a lot of ground combat, the action spans the galaxy as the company gets sent from planet to planet, with barely enough time to recover from their losses.
The story is told mostly from front lines, without a lot of big picture stuff, but doesn’t feel like a string of video game levels connected together, or a mash of character classes leveling up. Twilight Company isn’t so much a game novel as just a Star Wars novel. The focus is not so much on the combat, but on relationships between the troops, between the leaders and the soldiers, between the fresh meat and the longtime survivors. Namir grows and changes as the story unfolds, as he eventually takes up the mantle of leadership despite not having a firm commitment for the Alliance cause. As would be expected in a war story about ground troops, there are a lot of casualties through the battles, and the attrition along with the new mission make Namir ponder the nature of sacrifice and loyalty. We also get a small glimpse into some of the Imperial mindset, from the points of view of a female stormtrooper and a veteran commander pulled back into service.
Overall, I was impressed with Alexander Freed’s story and writing. While this is his first novel, he’s no stranger to the Star Wars universe, having previously worked at BioWare on The Old Republic MMO, and written some of comics based on The Old Republic and a few Insider short stories. I was a little apprehensive at first when Freed was announced as the author because I wasn’t a fan of The Old Republic: The Lost Suns story, though I liked some of those characters, who later appeared to better use in Drew Karpyshyn’s TOR novel Annihilation. I am happy to report that I enjoyed this story, both for plot and for characters. Freed maintained a good balance between action, dialogue, and description. I felt that he really captures a sense of the daily lives of the ground troops, fighting, recovering, waiting, losing and regaining hope while doing their jobs. Anyone who wants to see what life is like for the average soldier in the Rebel Alliance should definitely read Battlefront: Twilight Company! Thumbs up!
Grade: B+
Battlefront: Twilight Company is out on November 3 in hardcover, eBook, and audio formats. A copy was provided by Del Rey for this review. Review originally published at http://clubjade.net/?p=66400
Mild spoiler: With the cover art and the video game beta both taking place on Hoth, it’s not that much of a spoiler that Namir ends up participating in the Battle of Hoth, and has a run-in with a few movie characters, including Han Solo and Darth Vader.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Gritty Soldier's Tale of Slogging it in the Backworlds
By Knights Of Ren Disciple
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Twilight Company alongside playing Star Wars Battlefront on the PS4. It helped actually add a little story to the game (even though they are not correlated) by imagining that every solider you play as has their own unique backstory just like in Twilight Company. This was one of those books that I knew early on that I was going to be sad to put it down. I deliberately paced myself, as I am a fairly quick reader and did not want to go through this in a few days.
I have been a long time fanatic of Star Wars and have always been into the toys, video games, movies, shows, comic books, and novels.Basically EVERYTHING STAR WARS. My recent Star Wars reading experiences prior to this was Republic Commando: Order 66. I have read all of the Republic Commando series growing up and Order 66 was good, but a minor let down as it was just a little too light-hearted for my liking. If I am going to read a book about soldiers fighting wars, I want to read about death, misery, triumph, and destruction. This detail is necessary to make you feel like the firefights are tense and that the characters you care about could actually die. Twilight Company didn't go all the way there, but it got as close as I think any Novel set in the Star Wars universe would go. The book definitely gives some vivid images of stormtroopers and rebels alike getting holes burned in them by blaster rifles, trampled on by AT-ATs, and engulfed in flames by molten lava.
The overarching story here is that it's the rebels vs. the empire. The rag tag underdog rebels fighting tooth and nail to take away backwater planets away from the iron clad grip of the Empire's war machine. There are no magical Jedi superpowers, fantastic feats that are done single-handedly to turn the tide of battle. There are no mystical threads interwoven in the universe determining fate. There is no Light and there is no Dark.(although a major baddie does make a brief appearance) Every inch of ground is taken by beings of flesh and blood and lives are certainly lost. Deep down, this is a story that examines what are the motivations that drive us to fight. Who do we fight for? What do we fight for? Why do we fight for? And these questions are asked of not just the rebels, but also of the Empire. Fear, selfishness, greed, emptiness are all things that are brought up and put in your face to analyze.
All in all, I felt this was a really great book with multiple twists and turns, vivid locales, interesting and diverse characters, and best of all it added a new dimension to the Star Wars Universe.
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