Nicely put. It is amazing how often people can be so sure they are the heroes when their actions are far more similar to the villains.

I'm only halfway through and am loving the book. Listening to Marc Thompson on the audiobook, actually. I don't think I've listened to Marc Thompson before but oh my god that guy has range!! Either that or he snuck in a dozen or more additional actors to help him out. Wow! Not sure if Audible or anyone has a sample, but his performance is so amazing it's worth checking out even if you have already read the book. (Just to attest to that, the 1 star reviews at Audible are all "Overall: 1 star, Story: 1 star, Performance: 5 stars – The story was stoopid but narrator was incredible!")

I will be sure to write a review when I'm done with it, because so far I'm quite liking it. There is a somewhat different vibe to me than Star Wars that I'm still trying to put my finger on. Not terrible or anything, but just more, I don't know, a great story in the Star Wars universe rather than a great Star Wars story. Maybe it's the amount of flashbacks and dream sequences that may be standard for SFF but a little out of place in Star Wars, or not using Lucas's standard 3 location structure (that's not a bad thing, of course, but the movies all have a very set structure that we are now familiar with), I don't know.

But it's a great book so far, and I'm enjoying it either way.

Oh, and with the review disappearing – it might be someone getting report happy, or it might have run afoul of Amazon's "authors can't review other authors they know" algorithms? Have you two tweeted back and forth at all lately or anything? *shrug* Just a thought that it might be that lame-policy/overly-aggressive-algorithm and not necessarily malicious, but I also wouldn't put it past some of these people either.