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Battle Surgeons: Star Wars Legends (Medstar, Book I)
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As Civil War between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own . . .
A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music . . . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying—mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.
While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the war—either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music . . . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying—mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.
While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the war—either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
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“Battle Surgeons: Star Wars Legends (Medstar, Book I) by Steve Perry, Michael Reaves
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense
Fast-paced
Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
4.25 Stars
What an emotional ride. Very well done.
M.A.S.H. in Star Wars.
The frustration of war, epecially through the people trying to patch the soldiers back up...and send them back to the front lines.
Multiple storylines going on...at the same time. It was like a "slice of life" feel of what surgeons and those around them, on a base near the front, dealing with death (every day), but also living their lives...day to day. Each of them have dreams of what they're going to do....when this is over, but not all of them are going to be able to fulfull those dreams (sadly).
Loveed I-Five. I hope that we (the readers) will be blessed to spend more time with this droid.
Barriss Offee growing in th Force, and with this growth is challenged by possibly going "too far" (ends justifying the means) and how she wants to change the way things are going. She's being put in an impossible spot, to choose right from wrong, but when it is almost ALL wrong, and she just wants to make SOMETHING right. Ugh.
Also, war takes such a toll on people, even clone troopers. It erodes everyone that has had to go down that road (at us, also...being the reader)...as the war progresses.
I was left sad, but joyful....that there is part two, and I can read it...soon.”
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“I just couldn’t make myself care about the characters in this one.”
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About Michael Reaves
Michael Reaves received an Emmy Award for his work on the Batman television animated series. He has worked for Spielberg’s DreamWorks, among other studios, and has written fantasy novels and supernatural thrillers. Reaves is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter and the first two Star Wars: Coruscant Nights novels Jedi Twilight and Street of Shadows. He is also the co-writer (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) of the last two Star Wars: Coruscant Nights novels—Patterns of Force and The Last Jedi—and Star Wars: Shadow Games, as well as (with Steve Perry) Star Wars: Death Star and the Star Wars: MedStar novels Battle Surgeons and Jedi Healer. He lives in the Los Angeles area.
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