Last time we covered Sith (the race) and Sith (the order) as well as thoughts on Yaru Korsin.
Seeing as how I finished book 2 and 3 yesterday, I feel like I should pick up the pace. There's a lot that happens in these books, but they average 4 chapters a piece (explaining why they were released as free ebooks).
Now I have to recommend you take Gloyd's Wookiepedia entry with a grain of salt. I'm sure it was written after these ebooks came out and I believe whoever wrote it was in the wrong. As it states: "Gloyd was a male force-sensitive Houk who served as gunnery officier aboard the Omen..." However, the passage that caught my eye about Gloyd reads:
Energized and triumphant, Yaru Korsin conferred with Gloyd - keeping his confidences, as he always had, to the huge alien. Too strong to be defeated, too stupid to betray him - and dumb to the Force. The perfect ally.
Now ignoring the grammatical issues there, I want to point out the "dumb to the Force" bit. This caught my attention because I couldn't find any reasoning as to why the alien was working with the Sith and working so well with them. The Houk entry in Wookiepedia has given me some more insight to that, but the book did not. I'm not sure why they list Gloyd as being force-sensitive, since the books clearly state that he is not. If he was, that would have assuaged any concern I had as to why a Houk was working with the Sith. Mind you, the Houk entry has no information about them before 0 ABY (in fact, you have to click Gloyd from the list of notable Houk to get any details).
Before anyone asks: I'm not going to go in and try to edit Wookiepedia. Maybe someone with sharper eyes and knowledge than I could do this, but I really think the entries on the Houk and Gloyd could use some work. The former should have some details about the Houk in the Old Republic and the latter needs to be edited to remove that Gloyd is force-sensitive, as he is clearly not (unless a later book in the series changes that, in which case I'm peeved with the author).
The last thing I'm going to discuss today is more of a nitpick on writing. When a book is written from one character's perspective, I find it very sloppy to switch just to make a point. On page 33 of book 1, the last 5 sentences are suddenly from another character's viewpoint. While the writer did make it clear that it's a different character, I feel as if he was afraid that readers would not understand what was going on. The last 4 sentences could have been left out and things still would have been clear by book 3.
It's not a big issue, but I feel like the "plot twist" could have had much more impact had that snippet been left out. Instead, the parts of book 2 that build it up and cement the character's behaviors would have had much more impact. Instead, I was like 'Yes, quit belaboring the point.'
With that, we finish Precipice. Next I will start on Skyborn, which introduces us to some wholly new races and concepts. The author also hits his stride more, which made Skyborn an altogether enjoyable read.
Suggested Reading:
The 2 Wookiepedia links above if you haven't read them already.
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