Star Wars: Death Troopers
By Joe Schreiber
We bought this for Nick for Christmas, because he’s been into zombie movies lately, and has Star Wars in his blood, so to speak. After I promised him I would read it when he was done, he finished it in about a week!
This book is a fun mix of Zombie horror and Star Wars. It is fairly well written, though the ending leaves a lot to be desired. The horror scenes are done well, and there’s decent characterization. There isn’t a lot of detail, though. Nothing about why a handful of people are immune to the virus, very little about how the virus causes the dead to rise, and no mention of the reason for Han and Chewie being on this Imperial prison barge, with the Falcon impounded, merely months before the events in episode IV - and no, they do not escape on the Falcon. This book is more about the zombies, their victims, and their potential victims, to be sure. I enjoyed it for just that – a zombie romp with the crimson tinge of Star Wars.
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