Tarkin - Impressions.

The Tarkin novel should make an excellent SW anthology movie about Tarkin. Especially his exploits with the Outland Regions Security Force fleet and later years with Vader defending the Death Star construction against a Rebel Faction Fleet.

 

Tarkin was released this week in Brazil, thinking about to buy it...

 

Hope you do!

 

I won't follow your advice my friend. I enjoyed my reading of Kenobi and you don't if I remember well...hehehhe

 

Potential Spoiler---

Spoiler: Jedi Temple

Thoughts about the "Sith shrine" the Jedi Temple on Coruscant was built on??
I keep wondering how important this will be for setting up some (if any) future events in the new canon?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sith_shrine

 

Grand Moff Tarkin has somehow risen to the top as my favorite Star Wars character. I had always hoped that he would have been the visible face of evil in the prequels while the Emperor worked on turning Anakin from the shadows, but alas that would have meant less bad guy action figures to merchandize and my wishes did not come true. So, I really looked forward to this book wanting to see Tarkin finally get center stage.

The novel was a nice time slice of Tarkin's life and the book did set up Tarkin's back story and the dynamic of the Palpatine/Vader/Tarkin relationship, but like all the other new official canon books it felt like the storyteller was being held back for some reason.

I suspect that reason is because the story group can't allow anything to be set in stone until TFA is released or perhaps worse, until they finish the sequel trilogy. So yeah, I was a little bit let down. But in comparison to Heir to the Jedi's treatment of Luke it was a solid standalone story.

My rating of the new canon novels so far is:
A New Dawn
Tarkin
Lords of the Sith
Heir to the Jedi

 

Nice to meet someone else on the forum that's got A New Dawn on the top of the list!

 

Likewise! Nice to be here

 

A New Dawn has a lot of good reviews among the SW fans, and it was released this month in Brazil too. I think I will buy both.

 

So far I like...

Lords of the Sith
Tarkin
Dark Disciple
A New Dawn
Heir to the Jedi

For comics...

Darth Vader
Kanan The Last Padawan
Star Wars
Lando
Princess Leia

Absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on Aftermath novels and Shattered Empire. I'm really hoping at some point they tell some stories about what Luke, Leia, and Lando were doing the year between ROTJ.

Lando trying to infiltrate Jabba's palace would make a great comic. Luke learning to use the Force on his own, as well as Leia dealing with justifying Han's rescue to the Rebel hierarchy. What if the Rebel Alliance never wanted her and Luke to risk their necks for Han Solo? That could a whole new spin on things and set up the internal conflicts Leia may be dealing with in TFA.

 

Totally forgot about this. I just took a read. The opening is amazing. I'm excited to read the rest. It's interesting that this will be the beginning of another long war in the galaxy.

 

Finally got around to reading Tarkin, and I agree it was lacking some quintessential SW motifs, I really enjoyed it for a few reasons
1) the background it gives to Vader and Tarkin's relationship
2) Tarkin's origin story
3) Tarkin's relationship with the Emporer

but i did find myself zoning out while reading a few times...

 

I enjoyed it, not my favorite Star Wars book or anything but a fun read. It did lack some "heart", as the OP said, but so does Governor Tarkin. He's a cold-blooded man and I think the tone of the book reflected that. But that also means you don't feel much for the character, but Tarkin isn't a character I necessarily want to sympathize with or understand. I thought the book did a good job of creating an origin story went a long way in explaining how he became such a hard man but didn't really try to make excuses for his actions or turn him into a sympathetic character. My main problem was just that both the story of his childhood and the "present" adulthood were both kind of anti-climactic. Particularly his childhood, the Carrion Spike story ended up not being worth the hype. I thought the story was going to be something insanely cold-blooded like glassing his home planet during the Clone Wars or something. But instead he outsmarted some monkeys. And I didn't think the Mad Max ending was as all that great. But even though I was expecting more bang near the end I was very entertained and it kept me interested from start to finish.