Death Troopers: Star Wars Legends: Death Troopers

Great book

Great Star Wars book to read in October! It has dark gory tones. If you enjoy a descriptive read as well as Star Wars and zombies this book is made for you! It has great surprises and story telling for Star Wars fans.

Had me on my toes. Didn’t realize this book was going to be as good as it was. Not a terrifying book but the suspense is definitely there.

Very good read.

Book is as good as new! Love this story I. The Star Wars universe and am thrilled to have the hardcover version! Thanks again!

I admit, the idea of a Star Wars horror novel appealed to be on so many levels, I broke my "rarely buy hardcover" rule and snapped this one up as soon as it came out. While I don't entirely regret it, for what I got, I'd have been better off waiting for the paperback. This is just not that "high value" of a story. If you read the other reviews, you know the plot by now. This isn't a bad story, and the use of semi-intelligent zombies (reminiscent of those seen in George Romero's "Land of the Dead", but not as advanced as those in Brian Keene's "The Rising" and "City of the Dead") made for a nice change on a heavily used concept; actually knowing what causes them to come back to life and act as they do is also a nice addition. The characters are fairly well-developed (although I felt the character of Sartoris needed more development, I didn't get the sense of menace from him he was supposed to convey) though honestly none beyond the two well-knowns really stood out. This was fine, because in a story like this you don't want to waste too much time with the exposition. It was the story itself that gave me a "meh" feeling. Moments of suspense are over and done with so fast you couldn't really call them "suspenseful", and the overuse of someone turning and seeing a fellow survivor is gone, really dulled it further. The author also fails to describe the atmosphere well--I got little sense of the immense eerieness of a Star Destroyer seemingly empty of life, causing it to lack that haunted feel a good horror story should have. Things darting through the shadows is about the best you get at times, and that's just not enough. There are also a number of small inconsistencies sprinkled throughout (atypical zombie behavior, or a scene where Dr. Cody injects a zombie with anti-virus, despite having used all of her supply up chapters earlier). Overall, the sense I get is "Death Troopers" probably started life as a short story that was added to to make a full length book, and that tended to deflate the premise. I would still recommend it to Star Wars and zombie--but not true horror--fans. I just would recommend you wait for the paperback edition. The story is simply not worth the money you'd pay to get it in hardcover.

There isn't much I can say that others haven't already said about this one, set maybe a year before the events of "A New Hope", I can say this, this one had a neat premise, it is not hard to believe that the Empire would conduct a biological experiment that could go horribly wrong cuasing a virus that kills Imperial officers & Stormtroopers & then turns them into zombies, as a nearby prison barge is caught in a desolute Star Destroyer's tractor beam, members of the barge board the isolated Star Destroyer only to bring back the virus that kills all but six, two of the six being Han Solo & Chewbacca, at first I was concerned about this conflicting with the "Han Solo trilogy books(Paradise Snare, The Hutt Gambit, Rebel Dawn), however in "Rebel Dawn" Han & Chewbacca are notably absent for 5 to 6 chapters, so with that being said, this one does not conflict with continuity as some have suggested, this is where they were in terms of their absence, the first half is a bit slow, however when the six survivors board the Star Destroyer, that is where the scary fun begins, as Han, Chewie, pretty doc Zahara, two brothers & prison captain Jareth encounters the walking dead in the dark corridors, Han's swagger is ever so present especially when him & Chewie make their way to the command bridge & Han's notice of the pretty doctor, Jareth's redemption & zombies everywhere, again there isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said, all I can say is that if you like a good scary read & are a SW fan, this is a must have.

I don’t read a lot of Sci-Fi but I got recommended this by a friend who’s more invested in it than I am. Dear lord it’s good. It’s like a traditional zombie story but with Star Wars. It’s really well made and while a bit over the top sometimes it definitely has a walking dead or SCP feel to it. I definitely recommend it