The Mandalorian Armor

altlovesbooks reviewed The Mandalorian Armor by K. W. Jeter

Why was this called "The Mandalorian Armor"?

3 stars

Content warning middle book spoilers included here

"If there had ever been a time when there had been honor among thieves, it was long over in this galaxy."

My journey through the OG Star Wars novels continues. My husband dropped this series in my hands after we watched the most recent Mandalorian season, since I had questions about the Mandalorians in the old canon. It's arguably quicker to read the books than it is to pore over the Wookieepedia on some topics, honestly.

This was.... fine. Kind of a mess in places, but still fun. I'm still not sure why the subtitle is "The Mandalorian Armor" when it's not even a plot point or even mentioned at all, despite Boba Fett being the main character. The other bounty hunters I remember from Tales of the Bounty Hunters by Kevin Anderson were also part of this one, though their voices/actions felt a bit different (quite a bit different in Zuckuss'/Dengar's cases) from what I remember. I guess that's a product of the different authors.

The middle part of the book crawls a bit, (middle book spoilers here) particularly in the case of the Shell Hutts/d'Harhan inclusion. Not sure why we made a stop there, when ultimately they left empty handed and the Shell Hutts didn't even seem to mind the, uh, mild disturbance. I thought the beginning and ending were the best parts.

A book that's just fine. I'll be reading the rest in the series (my husband will insist), so I'm looking forward to how the rest play out.

Lois reviewed The Mandalorian Armor by K. W. Jeter

Review of 'The Mandalorian Armor' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I knew from checking out what this one was about that it was going to be abridged, and while that meant I wouldn't truly know the whole story, it was good for my purposes in that I would finish the whole book that I was going to listen to on a Friday. Besides, I figured that even it if was just a little bit, as it ended up being, Vader being on the cover suggested that he was in it, so I'm not going to complain. :D

I'm not a Boba Fett fan, or even a bounty hunter fan (except now with the Mandalorian!), but this was interesting, giving us a look at Boba after he survived the sarlacc and his interactions earlier with the guild and his disinterest. But there are a lot of other people here too, Xixor, the assemblage or something like that, Kuat of Kuat, the …

I knew from checking out what this one was about that it was going to be abridged, and while that meant I wouldn't truly know the whole story, it was good for my purposes in that I would finish the whole book that I was going to listen to on a Friday. Besides, I figured that even it if was just a little bit, as it ended up being, Vader being on the cover suggested that he was in it, so I'm not going to complain. :D

I'm not a Boba Fett fan, or even a bounty hunter fan (except now with the Mandalorian!), but this was interesting, giving us a look at Boba after he survived the sarlacc and his interactions earlier with the guild and his disinterest. But there are a lot of other people here too, Xixor, the assemblage or something like that, Kuat of Kuat, the people that help him after finding him on Tatootine... so while this abridged part seemed okay for what was going on, can't imagine the next two parts that will also be so can really wrap it up well, but we'll see. But this start was still pretty good.