 Hey everybody welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to do another book review. Would be honored if you would join us. Hey everybody welcome back to my Star Wars channel. This is the place where I review my Star Wars collection. Things I love about Star Wars and one of those things are the vintage books. Originally when I started doing these reviews I said that I would get all the vintage books the early books. These are the you know pre pre books back from the back from the 90s and I said I would read the books I would read them in order okay and then I would ask some questions about them. Chiefly right are they still good do they still hold up because when all of the new movies started coming out people started saying why are we writing new stories when we have a lot of these vintage books that had great stories and then we should just use those. And so I had never read the old books and I was like let's put that to the test. Let's read these books and see if they still hold up today. I think sometimes we have this idea right or this memory of how great things were in the past but if we were to revisit those things maybe maybe we might have a different opinion. That said I haven't reviewed a book in a while and let me tell you why because I haven't been very impressed. I have not been impressed lately. Last place I left off was in the Timothy Zan Air to the Empire trilogy. I wasn't really getting into that series and I kind of felt like I need something to kind of pick me up and maybe get me excited again and so I decided to jump out of the order and pick up The Bounty Hunter Wars and go through those because as you can see Boba Fett, Boba Fett right? Boba Fett favorite character right? Of course I mean he's probably everybody's favorite character but I started reading these and just hit a wall just felt like man this is this is more of the same just wasn't excited about these either but I want to get into the review first. Let's talk about The Mandalorian Armor. Mandalorian Armor this is from 1998 author is K. W. Jeter. This is from Spectra, Bantam Books. There's 387 pages. The book begins with Dengar, The Bounty Hunter, searching through the wreckage of Jabba's exploded sail barge after Luke and Leia destroy it and he's looking for you know things of value and then he finds Boba Fett alive. Right that was a big deal back in 1998 and then the book flashes back to Empire Strikes Back like around that period where Boba Fett is a freelance bounty hunter and he's at odd with The Bounty Hunter's Guild and so there's another subplot here with The Bounty Hunter's Guild and then another subplot about a gentleman named Quat of Quat. He's the Empire's chief subcontractor for military items and he's interested in the events that have occurred at Jabba's palace. There's also another plot with Bask and Zuckus also bounty hunters who have been assigned by The Bounty Hunter's Guild on a contract and they're going to go after this accountant who's wanted by the Huts. So Bask and Zuckus pursue Boba Fett because he has taken the accountant first and after Boba Fett arrives with his bounty Boba Fett is given a new job and that is to subvertly destroy The Bounty Hunter's Guild from inside and Boba Fett accepts. So we skip back to Dengar and Boba Fett they're in a cave this is you know in present time Dengar then captures a woman who has followed him to this cave and the woman's name is Neela and she explains that she was a dancer in Jabba's palace but she's very sketchy she doesn't seem to have all her memory. Then they jump back to the past again The Bounty Hunter's Guild welcomes Fett into their organization but Bask doesn't trust him. Bask is suspicious and Bask his dad by the way is the leader of The Bounty Hunter's Guild and he lets his dad know that he doesn't trust Boba Fett. There's another subplot with the Emperor and Darth Vader and Prince Shizor who they are trying to also destroy The Bounty Hunter's Guild meanwhile Boba Fett plants a fake bomb on Bask's ship it explodes Bask ejects in an escape pod and then he stranded on Tatooine. Well then Bask ends up killing his dad to take over The Bounty Hunter's Guild but instead of destroying it it fractures into two different groups. Skip back to Emperor Palpatine Prince Shizor and Darth Vader again they're trying to destroy The Guild so what they do is once they see that it's split into two factions they end up placing a large bounty on one of its members hoping to destroy it from within even more. Bask and Zuckas and Boba Fett do a team up and they set out to capture this new bounty hunter and of course the Fett in the present time he wakes up from his injuries eventually in this cave and he teams up with Dengar and the girl in the cave to kind of figure out what happened to him and that's where the book leaves off kind of like with a big cliffhanger and if that all sounded confusing that's because it is. It is confusing. I felt like the stories were all supposed to come together you know how you you read about different things through a book and you feel like well these are all gonna mesh these are all gonna blend I'm gonna figure out why they're telling me this story never happened never happened it really felt like this book was written knowing that there was a book too and they wanted to come to the end of it and and kind of tell you if you want to learn more keep reading and so it doesn't even work as a standalone book because if this were a standalone book you'd be disappointed because nothing resolves right so not only that but I just really found all of the monologuing and long dialogue boring to read there wasn't a lot of action in this I had to labor through this book I did not enjoy reading this book but you know there's those books where you feel like I've got to finish because it's got it's got to get better right I kept hoping it was going to get better and it never did so like I said this is the first book of a trilogy bounty hunter wars and it doesn't end it kind of has a cliffhanger ending the questions that had I had reading this book all the questions that I had reading this book are still questions they've never got answered and so as much as I didn't want to I felt like well I got to pick up the second book right because I'm sure all of my questions will be resolved in the second book the second book you know is going to get better a lot of times I really enjoy the sequel more than the first movie I always like the second film a lot more than the first and so I was really hoping okay this was all the beginning right and now it's going to pick up and it's going to get better in the second book spoiler alert for my upcoming review it doesn't so a couple questions I ask in my book reviews would I make this book canon no you can't make this book canon especially now since Mandalorian has come out and we've learned some new things about Boa Fett so no would I think this would make a good movie heavens know this is a terrible terrible story would not make a good movie at all so that takes me to my last question do I think this book holds up today do I think it holds up today no I don't and I feel like that's that's how I feel about a lot of these legacy books I feel like we enjoyed them back in the 90s but we were looking back through rose colored glasses we don't remember the books in truth and I feel like the pacing on a lot of these books are slow I feel like a lot of these authors don't really know the Star Wars characters and they just they just write generic characters and then just name them Han Solo and Princess Leia but they don't talk like the characters we enjoy especially this Boa Fett does not talk or act like we expect him to act in these books so very disappointed with this so sorry if you loved it if it's a childhood memory favorite of yours tell me down below if I got it wrong tell me down below that you love this book and that I'm crazy for not liking this book oh I can say one more thing the title Mandalorian Armor nothing nothing there's nothing in this book about the Mandalorian Armor nothing there's Boa Fett barely wears his armor through this whole book so why is it called the Mandalorian Armor just to just to draw you in I guess so yeah look forward to my next review slave ship or or or not I don't know hey thanks for watching may the force be with you I'll see you guys next time bye