Wraith Squadron: Star Wars Legends (Wraith Squadron)
Star Wars Legends (X-Wing)
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Wraith Squadron: Star Wars Legends (Wraith Squadron)
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Narrated by:
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Marc Thompson
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By:
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Aaron Allston
About this listen
As the battle against the Empire rages, a new crew of X-wing fighters risk life and machine on a daring undercover mission and emerge as the Rebel Alliance’s elite strike force.
It is Wedge Antilles’s boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects being given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial admiral Trigit and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew.
The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. However, the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.
Are they up to the challenge?
If not, the penalty is instant death.
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Excellent performance again
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True Star Wars
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1 of the best books in the full star wars saga
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great narration
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your man who narrates is the best one on the books, i don’t know if he’s a fan of star wars but he’s done enough of them over the years it feels like he gets it and understands the characters.
i forget how good these old x wing books are read these in the 90s and early 2000s love
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Yub Yub!
The follow up I didn't think we'd get
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As good as I remember it.
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Wraith Squadron is nothing like that.
From the off we've got Aaron Allston's trademark humour and grasp of characterisation. The book is laugh-out-loud funny several times. Allston manages to introduce the twelve members of Wraith Squadron, plus a roster or enemies and allies, and every single one of them is a rounded, memorable character with flaws and complexities and depth. This is very much the Dirty Dozen in the Star Wars universe, and it works so well.
And as always, Marc Thompson's narration takes it over the top. There's no better Star Wars narrator.
I can't wait to hear the rest of the series.
*THIS* is more like it - yub yub, Commander
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However, some absolute fan favourite characters have been done a real dirty with the voice/accent choices.
Most egregiously is Janson, who has been made to sound like Christian Slater doing a Snarf impression... Followed by Face (William Shatner) and Ton Phanan (bad French waiter) and Tyria (English dowager) as such a lot of the warmth and humour falls a bit flat when it's what made these novels stand out in the EU.
Narrator has done a brilliant job with Myn Donos and Piggy is OUTSTANDING
Definitely worth a listen, especially if these were some of your favourites. Looking forward to the rest of the series coming out.
Thoroughly enjoyable, with some unforgivably bad voice choices
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My childhood, now in unabridged HD
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