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    Star Wars: The Last Command

    Written by Timothy Zahn

    Narrated by Marc Thompson

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    The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han Solo and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack, while Princess Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins.
     
    The Republic has one last hope-sending a small force into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 26, 2012
    ISBN9780449806463
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    Star Wars: The Last Command
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    Timothy Zahn

    Timothy Zahn is the author of more than forty science fiction novels. He has also written many short stories, as well as Cascade Point, which won the Hugo Award for best novella. His other works include the Dragonback series, of which Dragon and Thief was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and the bestselling Star Wars™ novel, Heir to the Empire. Zahn lives in Oregon.

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    • 3/5
      The last book of the Thrawn trilogy. A fun read, though a bit predictable. This is definitely the best sequel to the movies that exists right now.
    • 3/5
      The last book of the Thrawn trilogy. A fun read, though a bit predictable. This is definitely the best sequel to the movies that exists right now.
    • 5/5
      Pre09:Same review for all 3 in the trilogy. The only 'Sanctioned Fan-Fic' worth reading.Characters: Yes, they are all there. That's why it is good. The Jade chick makes a good compliment for Luke so he isn't snogging his sister. The bad guy is actually bad enough to make up for Vader's absence.Plot: It's very solid. Star Wars wasn't really about the plot.Style: Yea, it feels like the movies. A romp through space with fighting and bad odds. It's jolly good.
    • 3/5
      Not bad as far as Star Wars novels go but definitely for fans only.
    • 5/5
      Some of the first books I'd read as a kid. I wonder if they would be so great if I read them now???
    • 4/5
      The slow build finally comes to a climax! The pacing of the Thrawn Trilogy lends itself well to offering lots of different stories and angles from several perspectives across the three books. The story wraps up nicely, although somewhat quickly once you get there. You really get a sense of full appreciation for all characters involved, with the lighthearted hopefulness you would expect with a Star Wars ending.
    • 4/5
      After the first book in the series, I was not totally on board with these books. It was fun, but I didn't really get a full sense of what was happening. With books two and three however, I was totally hooked. All the plots payoff big here. Thrawn does not let us down after promising so much to the reader early on, and C'baoth proves to be a much cooler villain than I had really expected. It was one of those really satisfying pop books that I'll likely come back to one day.
    • 3/5
      Jaina and Jacen are born! Luke finally breaks free of C'baoth! Clones are piloting the dreaded Katana fleet! Mara Jaaaaaaaaaaaaade!
    • 4/5
      A worth conclusion for a worthy addition to the Star Wars universe. Mara Jade is fantastic new character (introduced back in Heir to the Empire) and I hope to see her make an appearance in the new Star Wars movies. It's too bad George Lucas undid some of the Clone Wars history when we made the prequels.
    • 4/5
      I love this trilogy.
    • 4/5
      Four and a half stars. For why, listen to the new Thrawn and On and On podcast episode, dropping very soon!
    • 5/5
      Some people reread Tolkien every year. Me, I'm not quite that classy... :)In Book 3 of Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy, the fledgling New Republic is on the brink of destruction after facing the brilliant and dangerous Grand Admiral Thrawn. Thrawn's discovery of the Emperor's cloning facilities has given him all the troops he needs to populate the massive fleet he obtained at the end of the previous book, and his assault on Coruscant has all but cut off the Republic's capital from the rest of the galaxy.Perhaps more dangerous still is the mad cloned Jedi Joruus C'Baoth, whose determination to collect Luke, Leia, and Leia's infant children as his apprentices will not be denied. When Mara Jade promises to take Luke and Han to the Emperor's cloning site, they find more than they've bargained for. And with the Emperor's last command ringing in Mara's ears, the decisions she faces may be the most dangerous of all.You can practically hear the Star Wars fanfare whenever you open up one of Zahn's books. Although today's teens have grown up with the prequel trilogy and the Clone Wars TV show, anyone with a soft spot for the original trilogy will find a lot to love about these books.
    • 5/5
      Here it is, the final installment of the Thrawn trilogy. Questions are answered, alliances are settled, battles are won. This is what I want out of a Star Wars book and a series. We finally see what Thrawn's grand plan is, and see his first successes. We also see C'baoth's ultimate scheme to win over control of Luke, Leia, AND Mara Jade and turn them into his willing servants. This is powerful storytelling that almost surpasses the original trilogy (again, ALMOST), and absolutely surpasses the prequel trilogy a hundred times over. This is the story I would have much rather seen in theaters as a follow up to the series I grew up on.Also, it has to be said, I wish I'd read this first. Going back and reading other Expanded Universe stories after this series has left me wanting. Even authors who claim to have coordinated with Zahn as he was completing his trilogy seem to have just neglected details of his story for their own, inferior stories.
    • 3/5
      I am not a huge Star Wars reader, but I enjoyed this series quite a bit. I thought it fit well into the Star wars universe and stayed true to the feel of the movies. I like Zahn's books more than others, though I still enjoy the earliest novels the best.
    • 3/5
      See my review for Book One of this series.
    • 5/5
      This was the first Star Wars book I ever read. (I had to go back and read the first two after I finished this one) It made me a big fan of Zahn's work, and made me an even bigger fan of Star Wars itself. Great ending to the series.
    • 4/5
      A nice wrap-up to the trilogy. Small things disappointed me about the ending, but not enough to damage my favourable opinion. This was a fun ride, and I might read other Zahn works in the expanded universe someday. I'd heard a lot about Mara Jade prior to reading this series, and I can see how this trilogy cemented her as a major EU character in the minds of fans. It was considerably more successful than the disappointing "Shadows of the Empire".
    • 5/5
      Excellent series. These books are so well written that they should be a legal followup to the Star Wars Trilogy.
    • 5/5
      See my review for Heir to the Empire, the first book in this series.
    • 4/5
      A fun ending to a nostalgic series. Definitely some memorable moments!
    • 4/5
      Probably the best of the three books. I would have liked a little.more at the end, but at least all the threads were closed, if somewhat forced.

      I found myself skimming pages at times but you'll be fine if you like Zahn's style.
    • 5/5
      The way it should have ended
    • 5/5
      As the title suggests this is final book in the Thrawn trilogy. It brings the story comes full circle to the inevitable defeat of the forces of the Empire. Leaving it once again headless and on the wrong side o Rebel Alliance victory. But you the reader knew that was going happen. The enjoyment of the story comes from seeing how Zahn orchestrates the various treads, plot lines and sub plots to that conclusion.

      I don't know how much of this story is Star Wars canon. It certainly does not fit into story lines of the animated cartoon series Star Wars Rebels or Star Wars Resistance. Nor does it into the comic book series. The trilogy does not address what of Thrawn's larger mission explored in in Heir to the Empire.

    • 4/5
      I've always loved Star Wars, but never really thought about reading the novels. I'm still not sure I would enjoy "reading" the novels all that much, but listening to them with this narrator is pretty amazing. The voices sound so much like the actors in the movies that you feel like you're "watching" a new Star Wars movie. The only thing I didn't like about these books was that Thrawn was never wrong, he anticipated everyone's next move so that it was kind of disheartening/unrealistic even though you knew the good guys would win in the end.I've heard a bunch of fans say they wish these books would have become the movies instead of the movies we got, but I don't feel like these books would have translated as well to the big screen.
    • 4/5
      The Last Command is good. Still has too much coincidence, but otherwise it seems to ground everything nicely.
    • 4/5
      (see books 1 & 2)  A satisfactory conclusion all the way around. The Moral of the story (without spoilers) can be summed up in Mara Jade's recognition that Luke is the kind of person who "saw what needed to be done. And he trusted her to help him do it." (P211) The other big plot hole concerns the Noghri. They revere Luke and Leia as children of the Lord Vader their Savior (so they thought); but then Leia learns, and tells them, that the Emperor & Thrawn, and thus necessarily Vader, cheated and betrayed them. So why would they continue to revere the Skywalkers?Maybe I slept through that page.By the way, what idiot other than George Lucas would give the hidden son of the renegade Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, his fathers surname?
    • 5/5
      The perfect ending to an amazing trilogy!
    • 4/5
      Hatte von einem Star Wars Buch nicht viel erwartet und war angenehm überrascht von der Qualität.