The galaxy's most famous and infamous bounty hunter faces his toughest challenge yet!
Boba Fett is in danger. He's been captured by his enemies, his life nearly forfeit. His job for Jabba the Hutt is far from done. Things are looking grim. . . . But Boba Fett didn't become the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy through defeat. Now he must turn the tables and come out on top -- to ensure his infamous future.
A New York Times notable and multiple award– winning author, Elizabeth Hand has written seven novels, including the cult classic Waking the Moon, and short-story collections. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. She and her two children divide their time between the coast of Maine and North London.
This is the last book of a series and this one picks up exactly where we left off in the last book. In this one, Boba has lost his fight to Grievous and he is about to be cremated. He needs to escape before he loses Wat Tambor.
Unfortunately this series didn't end with a bang. The problem was the shift of the story. The last book was about Boba hunting Wat Tambor for Jabba and we were left with a cliffhanger. We basically drop that whole plot so Boba can meet various well known characters to hide this fact. While reading it I wondered if there were suppose to be more books put plans got cancelled and the author had to rush to the finish line. And that is where another problem arises. The author painted herself in a corner with the overall arc. She introduced plots that there was no resolution because any resolution would have conflicted with the movies. She actually handled them the best that she could but it did feel like things were left unresolved.
This book is meant for children and maybe I was expecting too much from it. There are some awesome scenes like Boba meeting Anakin or the battle between Boba and Mace. The problem is the overall book isn't cohesive and it did affect my enjoyment of it.
I really liked this except that he never caught up with away Tambor. That being said I LOVED the last few chapters. Definitely cleaned up some loose ends and posed some interesting context for the future. 4.3 stars
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Star Wars: Legends: Boba Fett series - 06 Pursuit by Elizabeth Hand, Peter Bollinger
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense
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Plot or character-driven? Character Strong character development? Yes Loveable characters? Yes Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
4.0 Stars
This book/series has explored the young child, Boba Fett...as he buries his father, Jango after the battle on Geonosis. How this ten year old little boy, took on the mantle of his father...and became the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy.
How he was used/abused by Count Dooku, and everyone that overlooked him...because of his tender age and inexperience. But, the DNA of Jango, which was used to create the Clone Army for the Republic, is the same DNA that gave birth to Boba Fett.
Before starting this series, like any exploration of a mysterious character like Boba Fett, it can be dangerous that be learning about his upbringing and past...that we demystify what made him attractive, but that isn't the case with him.
I have really enjoy this exploration, and cannot wait to read about the adventure that he will get up to...before The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
This was a pretty weak ending to a pretty weak series. On the one hand we finally see Boba Fett become the hunter we all know. On the other hand (spoiler sort of) his final adventure ends in not one but three failures. I say sort of spoiler because we know from the movies that Palpatine not Boba kills Mace Windu, so the ultimate confrontation that the series is winding up to...is as we already know doomed to failure, it guts most of the tension and anticipation from the story. There's also his failure of capturing the last bounty Wat Tambor and there's never any kind of conclusion to that thread of the story even though they set it up like failure in that task would mean trouble with Jabba. Then he fails a third time to use the secret information he has been carrying and hinting at since the series started. The one person he finally shares this with...is Palptatine. Who again the audience already knows...is already aware of Dooku's double agent status.
This was a great opportunity to finally have a story where Boba Fett is a badass instead we got mediocre stories that end with Boba Fett once again being a failure...but for some reason still being the greatest bounty hunter ever rather than having a story where he really earns it.
That being said it did have its moments and was not all bad.
Background:Pursuit was written by Elizabeth Hand and published in December 2004. The final 4 of the 6 Boba Fett books are her only Star Wars books, though she has written various non-Star Wars things.
Pursuit picks up immediately where A New Threat (my review left off, 31 months after the Battle of Geonosis, 19 years before the Battle of Yavin. Most of the same characters return, along with Mace Windu and Chancellor Palpatine. The book takes place on Xagobah and Coruscant.
Summary: Left for dead by General Grievous in Wat Tambor's stronghold, Boba Fett will have to act fast if he wants to salvage his errand for Jabba the Hutt. Unfortunately, the best and brightest of both the Republic and the Separatists stand in his way, and this mission is about to get personal.
Review: I feel like, if you're going to stretch a plot across 2 books, the first of which ends on a cliffhanger, it's pretty bad manners to abandon that plot, still unresolved, just a few chapters into the second. I really hope there weren't too many kids anxiously waiting the 8 months between the publication of books 5 and 6 to see how the series resolved, particularly since there's no way this took longer than a couple of day to write.
This continues to give every sign the last book did of having been hastily and sloppily composed, and the action is full of stuff like this: "The missile swerved and followed. Before it could strike its target, Boba loosed a volley from his blaster cannons. [...] He heard the satisfying thunk of impact. Nanoseconds later, the missile imploded." That's . . . not how nanoseconds work. So, Boba hears a "thunk" and a couple billionths of a second later there's an explosion, and he can distinguish between these two events? Come on. Be better.
Then again, maybe it was intentional. At one point, Boba is able to escape being recognized as a clone of Jango, despite having the most recognizable face in the entire Republic, because he no longer resembles the clones . . . because he's so “battle-hardened.” See, the clones have just been fighting the freaking Clone Wars for the past 3 years, whereas Boba has been running low-level jobs on Tatooine for Jabba which is way more strenuous. So that makes total sense.
Again, the references to lore are just a grab-bag thrown in whenever and however, so we get stuff like this observation by Boba on Coruscant: "The airspeeder shot past another speeder full of willowy young Dathomir witches." That's not . . . He wouldn't be able to . . . You know what? Nevermind. It's not even worth the time. It's so grating that both this book and the last book sound fine if you just hear a plot summary. There's plenty of potential for drama and excitement. But the execution is unremittingly poor. Weak ending for a series that was not without promise.
A relatively good, but very predictable conclusion to the Boba Fett series. One can already guess the result of the battle between the bounty hunter and Mace Windu even without reading the conclusion. Also, it is rather disappointing that the story with finding Wat Tambor did not continue. One could only guess what Boba Fett would have to explain to Jabba the Hutt.
It was an okay finale. Nothing special. Too much of it seemed unbelievable to have much impact. This series was a big let down, especially after books 1 and 2 were so good
This…got pretty stupid. The series really should have ended with Hunted, or at least been done better in these final two books. It feels like Boba’s mission to get Wat Tambor is just swept to the side and unresolved. Like, I guess there are no consequences to him not finishing that mission? What was the point of it really?
He also gets in a dogfight with Ventress, who barely features in this despite being on the cover. Interestingly, before fighting her, he considers having her as an ally, which is something that would end up happening in The Clone Wars TV series.
There’s also the meeting with Anakin Skywalker, which feels like it’s straight out of a fanfic. All they needed was to be like, “Oh you fly ships? I fly ships too.” Anakin knows who Boba is but doesn’t really address the fact that his father was killed by Mace Windu, which is something he really should know given that it was Obi-Wan who told him about Boba.
His trajectory from here on out feels like it happens too easily, with Anakin allowing Boba to go with Tarkin, and then Tarkin allowing Boba to walk around the Jedi Temple by himself. I get that Boba has vital information (Dooku being Tyranus), but why is he roaming around so easily? And then he goes to the underworld and gets equipment from Elan Sleazebagano, which feels like another cheap familiar character thrown into the mix.
Then of course, we get the fight with Mace Windu. Now, Boba is wearing his repainted armor and helmet, and he mentions being Jango Fett’s son. Mace’s response is Jango had no son, only clones. How does Mace not know about Boba Fett? (Boba also doesn’t mention his own name during this fight. Just an observation.) Mace is pretty much unaware that this twelve-year-old is getting injured in this fight, and gives him chances to surrender, but almost kills Boba when he refuses.
Then Palpatine walks in and convinces Mace to stop fighting and leave the room SO EASILY. How does Mace not suspect something is up? How is Boba basically off the hook for the time being? And why does Palpatine let Boba in on the fact that he knows Dooku is Tyranus? It basically plays like, “Oh we’re all gonna be on the same side in the future!” He pays Boba a huge fortune, which is apparently enough to keep him quiet and forget his vendetta, as he suspects that the Jedi are in for a dark fate anyway. But wouldn’t the real Palpatine eliminate all loose ends who knew Dooku and Tyranus were one and the same? This book really asks the reader to suspend A LOT of disbelief.
Overall, this really played off as fanfic that didn’t have enough revisions. I really think The Clone Wars TV show did the Boba hunting Mace story better. Everyone in this book just allows things to happen, not really participating with much agency.
This review encompasses all six in the Legends series, some of which are available for free with Amazon Prime, but are numbered in incorrect or confusing order on Amazon: 1) The Fight to Survive 2) Crossfire 3) Maze of Deception 4) Hunted 5) New Threat 6) Pursuit
I read these as bedtime stories for my 12 year old. They chronologically span the end of Attack of the Clones and the earlier seasons of The Clone Wars animation series. It is the story of the development of Boba Fett from the only unaltered clone child of Jango Fett to Jabba the Hutt's top bounty hunter. The books are on the slightly younger side of YA, namely as it's about a child who figures out how to survive and become one of the galaxy's top bounty hunters before he hits adulthood. It's easier for a younger reader with shorter chapters than the Legends series, and sanitizes certain scenes such as when Boba retrieves Jango's helmet from his decapitated head (there is no decapitated head).
There are plenty of dry and uninteresting bits, some books have not been completely edited for typos, and being somewhat familiar with The Clone Wars cartoon is a prerequisite. Many scenes are difficult to visualize from the author's vivid imagination or without the source material (from Clone Wars?) the author may have been looking at while writing. It's interesting enough from a Star Wars fan standpoint with hypotheticals.
*Spoilers ahead.* While the author stays as close to the "canon" of existing materials as he can, there is some speculation. This book had Jango Fett as a non-Mandalorian with Mandalorian armor gifted to him as opposed to what Dave Filoni revealed about Boba Fett in the last episode of The Mandalorian Season Two. Boba Fett is one of the few people in the galaxy who understands that Count Dooku and Tyranus are the same person, creating both sides of the destructive conflict. He holds that secret as his most valuable possession, aside from the memory of his father and the holorecorded book that Jango Fett leaves him. (It's possible this book is what the title of Disney's upcoming The Book of Boba Fett series refers to as creator Dave Filoni is known to draw from the literature out there). That secret is what ultimately both saves him and makes him self-sufficient. I found the conclusion very satisfactory. Some books in the series are better than others, overall I give them three stars out of five.
Chronologically, this story takes place several years after Jango Fett was killed by the Jedi Mace Windu. His son, Boba has reached adulthood and is becoming one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy. He is also one of Jabba the Hutt’s most effective operatives, and his current goal is to hunt down and kill Mace Windu in an act of revenge. In his quest, he encounters and is in fact saved by Anakin Skywalker, yet there is no alliance between them. Boba manages to take up a temporary residence in the Jedi Temple and encounters Windu. The action is fairly low key as the clone armies are fighting for the Republic against the separatists. Anakin is operating separately from Obi Wan Kenobi in this story. It is a very good novel at the YA level. The plot moves along at a good pace and the number of significant characters is limited to those that are essential. Palpatine is still only Chancellor, yet he is on the road to evil and does an effective job of recruiting Boba to his cause. This book is a quick and satisfying read.
I have to say I have never cared about Boba Fett. He seemed to be a rather unimportant character to me. (yes, I've seen every movie. Still don't care about this character) But this series fleshed out a character that to me, was little more then a background character, and I found myself in for the first time actually liking the guy. Although short, the books in this series are well written and enjoyable reads. I liked getting the background on Boba and finding out more about his journey to ending up on Cloud City collecting Han in carbonite.
This is the exciting conclusion to the young Boba Fett series. Boba is now a young man and has to escape from War Tambor's citadel of death. Note: possible spoilers. Along the way, Asajj Ventress shows up. Boba has a run in with Anakin Skywalker (a highlight of the book), and decides to try and kill Mace Windu. An action packed ending to a great series.
A little abrupt in its conclusion to the overall series, Pursuit nevertheless sees young Boba Fett facing off with his most powerful enemies yet as he fully assumes the role of on of the galaxy's most notorious bounty hunters. Hand works in plenty of connections to the larger universe and maintains tone necessary for a middle grade novel--while also charting Fett's growth from uncertain boy to a feared hunter willing to challenge the fiercest powers in the Republic.
I have read this entire series and thoroughly enjoyed it. Overall, it was an exciting page turner I couldn't put down. As a Star Wars fanatic, there were a few details that were incorrect such as the Mandalorian armour being pierced despite it supposedly being constructed of vespar. As I mentioned though, I really did enjoy getting to read the beginning of Bona Fett's story.
First of all, keep in mind that this is for younger readers. That being said as a Boba Fett obsessed, teen in the 2000s I inhaled these suckers. This entire series is a lot of fun and I wish they had done even more with it because I think it has so much potential.
I absolutely enjoyed this one as a teen… that being said, it really truly feels like the series just ended suddenly and a bit flat. This is where I would say it had a lot of potential and they did not make it as they could have.
2.5 stars. This should not have been its own standalone story. A lot of the beginning is dependent on what happened in the previous book. There’s also some really convenient plot elements that I don’t think would realistically happen in a better written story. That being said, the ending did have some really fun scenes.
A bit of a disappointing conclusion to the children's series featuring Boba Fett. It ties in a bunch of plot lines, but ultimately feels unbelievable at many times. It's a fun series! If your child likes Boba Fett, it's worth reading. If your child likes star wars, there are definitely better children's star wars books as a whole.
Naja war okay..erstes Buch ohne Jana. Komisch dass Palpatine nicht einfach Boba getötet hat. Komisch dass Boba mit leeren Worten immer soweit kommt. Anakin, Mace und Palpatine waren Out of character und Windu hätte boba easy clappen können.. Unterhaltsam beim lesen ist es also 3 Sterne aber fürs Lore wäre es nur 2. Weird dass Boba auch einfach Windu vergisst nach allem
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Well, I'm not exactly sure what that was, but I know it wasn't good. Boba Fett abandons a bounty for a personal vendetta, then fails at that too. Who is this guy? In fact, I didn't recognise any of the characters in this disaster, even though they were wearing very familiar names. A terrible ending to a meh series.
First of all: I love Boba Fett. I tried to get my hamds on everything to do with the galaxies most notorious and best bounty hunter. The books are for a younger group but I really loved it. The writing is exciting and I got hooked so bad I read them all in 3 days.
It’s not terrible but a lot of inconsistencies with Star Wars lore. Boba’s head and arms should have been chopped off for example. And of course the outcome was already known. Mace survives to Revenge of the Sith.
Disney brings us a tale of Boba fett and his kills. Boba fett begins to meet famous people like general greivious and senator Palpatine. The ending is a little rushed and somewhat out of character?
A decent story, but not the most exciting end for a series. Especially after the last book. Still it did retain my interest though I feel a bit cheated at Wat Tambor's escape. Even though I knew that they had to get away.