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One of the main advantages that the Clone Wars have had over the NJO is that the latter was limited to the novels and comic tie-ins. The former, on the other hand, seems to epitomize the old saying that “the sky’s the limit.” The conflict that fans have been dying to see since 197 have over the last three years been presented in all forms of multimedia, from cartoons and comics to videogames and novels.

Thus, we now come to the novels, an important aspect of the franchise since the novelization of A New Hope and Splinter of the Mind’s, but only recently revitalized due to the Thrawn trilogy. With less than two months to go until the premiere of Episode III, eight novels, four paperbacks and four hardcovers, have been published, showcasing noteworthy battles and encounters of the Clone Wars (I‘m not counting the novelizations of either AOTC or ROTS -- especially the latter since it obviously hasn't been released yet -- or the junior novels).

Of these, which has been your favorite of the Clone Wars novels and why?

Hard Contact. An interesting story, a reasonable antagonist. The interactions of the clone commandos was excellent. Given the track record of game novels and bearing in mind the horrid example of that Galaxies tie-in novel, I went into it with low expectations and was incredibly pleasantly surprised.

Labyrinth of Evil is a must-read prior to viewing the movie, I feel. It ties in so well, and gives probably a much better look at Grievous than we'll get in the movie. (Not that I'm much of a Grievous fan... little too uber for my tastes.)

Honorable mention to Dark Rendezvous, for portraying Dooku in a very human light.

Minus points for the Medstar duology for being a little too much M*A*S*H in Space.

Labyrinth of Evil, I guess because it's really the only one I've read.

I've not read the Medstar or Labyrinth of Evil books yet but of the ones i did read Shatterpoint was my favourite. It is very dark and it shows just how the war really effected the Jedi Order. Plus Mace Windu is truely as bad ass in it.

Yoda is hilarious in Dark Rendezvous.

Darth Fanboy wrote:Yoda is hilarious in Dark Rendezvous.

What was cool was that in Dark Rendezvous there were moments when Yoda actually felt alien.

Spoiler- The scene with Dooku where Yoda had his little flash of Sithness was actually somewhat chilling, when you think about the potential of the old frog actually turning to the Dark Side. He would be pretty damned terrifying.

Hard Contact- The Comandos where awsome. They let us know how it felt to be one of Many clones, yet we get to feel that they are humans as well.

I voted none of them but I don't hate all SW novels. I just dislike pretty much all that are set in the Prequel era.

Petrosjko wrote:

Darth Fanboy wrote:Yoda is hilarious in Dark Rendezvous.

What was cool was that in Dark Rendezvous there were moments when Yoda actually felt alien.

Spoiler- The scene with Dooku where Yoda had his little flash of Sithness was actually somewhat chilling, when you think about the potential of the old frog actually turning to the Dark Side. He would be pretty damned terrifying.

Agreed. I once again applaud Sean Stewart for balancing out the serious aspects of Yoda's prequel-era character with the impish behavior of TESB.

Hard Contact at the moment, mostly because it's one of the few I've read (I have both medstar books but need to finish them and the only other one I've read is 'The Cestus Deception' ).

JME2 wrote:Agreed. I once again applaud Sean Stewart for balancing out the serious aspects of Yoda's prequel-era character with the impish behavior of TESB.

Yeah, Yoda's what I want to be like when I'm nine hundred years old.

Only, y'know, taller.

Hard Contact was an interesting read from a purely technical standpoint, but the incessant ground-trooper wankfest was rapidly tiresome.

Labyrinth of Evil is perhaps one of the better written books (next to Medstar) and was a FAR better tie in novel to Ep3 than "The Approaching Storm" was to Ep 2.

MEdstar 1 & 2 were "MASH in space", but that wasn't bad. I thoroughly enjoyed those novels.

Jedi Trial has to be one of my current favorites, simply because we had a battle that did not "wank" the value of ground troopers (like Hard contacT), but also had some (what I thought) interesting space battles as well.

Finished Jedi Trial, thought it was okay but I still prefer Hard Contact

SylasGaunt wrote:Finished Jedi Trial, thought it was okay but I still prefer Hard Contact

I don't know about you, but I would think that NR is glad that Corran Horn didn't inherit his Biological grandfathers military talent (based on Jedi Trial). Personally I liked LoE the most.