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Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This was absolutely duller than dish water. You know that part in the heist movie where they put together the team? I hate that part in general (though I know people love that trope) that's exactly what this book is except no one has one ounce of personality. The closest any of them comes is the one who hates Wedge Antilles' second in command for killing his family (but this is so boring I can't even remember his name). A 100 pages in and we're still assembling and training the titular Wraith squadron on simulators so there's no tension, no real end goal (other than to let Wedge win a bet that this type of team is possible), nothing that makes you want to read on.

I'll be honest, I wasn't much of a fan of the X-Wing series to begin with (I'm reading them more for the X in the title for a book challenge than for any other reason). As much as I love Star Wars, I have to admit, Wedge is such a minor character he never really engaged me (though I can see why someone would want to center a series around him, so much room to play without the constraints you'd have with Han, Luke or Leia).

All I remember of this is Wedge wanted to squadron capable of ground fighting too and.... that is as close to tension we get in the first third of the book. There are no stakes and without stakes there is no reason to bother.

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