Star Wars: Red Harvest

There’s more characters and it’s harder to get to grips with as each chapter flicks between a host of around 8 different perspectives, but it’s still a great Star Wars Horror read! I think my favourite is the first one but I would love to see a third book that maybe bridges the time gap in the two stories. I love Star Wars as a horror zombie story, it’s such a great idea.

I've read both of Joe Schreiber's Star Wars books and both were good.
They're both well worth the money.

He does have a tendency to rely on convenient coincidences in the story lines but that doesn't really make much of an impact since we're dealing with a fictional universe and it wouldn't make such a great story if everything happened as it really would and everyone just died.

Mr Schreiber does also still use metaphors that make very little sense and words that most people would not come across in daily life and therefore not really understand.

Again, I would have liked more gory detail but that may just be me since there is a fair bit of graphic detail for certain parts of the story anyway.

I enjoyed the story as a whole. Most of it was well thought out and fun to read. The occasional humour also added to the experience in a good way and was fitting for the Star Wars genre.

So, all in all, a good book and well worth buying if you like Star Wars and / or the undead.

Prequel to Death Troopers, Red Harvest charts the beginning of the zombie plague in the SWU placing it in the middle of the events of the MMORPG The Old Republic.

The book is a very fast paced one which allows for near-zero investment in the characters from minor to major. It’s obvious things will end up in a bloodbath but you just don’t care when someone inevitably succumbs to the inevitable. The idea of a force-sensitive flower is interesting, especially considering other flora like the Neti but it just didn’t seem explored enough. And a Jedi in the Agri Corps is another that’s never really been considered beyond the crude descriptions offered by other writers. And the ending felt like a rip off of Aliens.

More miss than hit. I don’t feel the book added anything substantive to the former EU. For the die hard fans only. I doubt I’ll be re-reading this any time soon.