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A review by justthatstarwarsbookgirl
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Grievous Attacks! by Tracey West, Rob Valois, Veronica Wasserman
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I really enjoyed speed-reading through this book, I honestly had huge difficulty putting it down. I finished about 10 pages yesterday night and finished all of the rest of the 150 pages today in a few sittings as I went about my day. The only place it really slowed down at for me was the “Downfall of a Droid” adaption, but that may be because I don’t enjoy that Episode in The Clone Wars Television Show that much either. I liked the Television Episode of “Lair of Grievous” better than the novelization adaption however. My favorite story overall out of the 3 in the book was “Rookies”, obviously, as it’s always been one of me and my younger sister’s favorite Episodes of The Clone Wars Television Show itself since we first watched the seasons. The storylines in this book were addicting, quick, fun/good and exciting to read as a whole. The plots of the adaptions were worded well, concise, well described, and nicely detailed, as well as being mostly accurate to the Original Episodes. The only things I didn’t like in the book were A. The omission of Droidbait’s Death to the Rishi Moon’s Worm and Rex killing the worm completely being absent out of the “Rookies” Adaption and B. The fact that it is stated in “Downfall of a Droid” that Gha Nachkt was only shocked with a Droid Zapper tool and not impaled by Grievous’s lightsaber as revenge for being greedy and asking for more money for R2-D2 when Grievous and the Separatists didn’t want to pay him. It was originally really good justice that that lying and horrible Trandoshan was murdered for being greedy. The omission of that makes it as if it’s okay what he did to kids. And it isn’t like they were just not trying to kill anybody, because later in the book they kill multiple Clone Troopers (whose lives aren’t any less than other humans, especially a horrible Trandoshan like Nachkt) and Nahdar Vebb, Kit Fisto’s former Padawan, being shot and killed as well as his Clone Squadron and Officer, plus Grievous’s beastly pet being killed proves that there was no reason to leave out the Rishi Worm being shot and killed. I suppose it was up to the author’s individual choices as there were three different authors. I believe the last story, “Lair of Grievous”, however was the told the most accurately to its Episode’s original storyline, and with the second most accurate being “Rookies”, and the least accurate being “Downfall of a Droid”, because they didn’t just omit stuff like “Rookies”, but actually changed a major/minor detail with not killing Gha Nachkt in the original storyline that was personally important seeming as a lesson to children and everyone (at least to me). I overall really enjoyed the book and would definitely read again, and recommend it to any Star Wars fan, especially fans of the animated 2008 Clone Wars Television Series or General Grievous as a villain and character himself.
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and War
Moderate: Body horror and Gore
Minor: Body shaming and Abandonment