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After nearly a year of trying to read this book I've finally finished it. So with an awesome title like "Death Star", it makes it sound like this book would deal with all those interesting bits of story concerning this monstrous beast of a weapon right? Wrong.

The book starts off about a few years before the movie "A New Hope" when the Death Star is in the final stages of being built. You get introduced to several characters which will all become "leads" to the story. Seriously that was my biggest problem with this book, there are so many main characters that you keep forgetting what this book's about. Each character also starts off in different parts of the universe doing different things, for example you have one guy who's a pilot, another who's a gunner, a prison guard, a cantina owner, a prisoner etc etc. So you get to continue each of these character's story every 60 or so pages when you're done rotating through all of them. Makes for a very inconsistent novel and confusing as I kept on forgetting the names of all these characters. The best part was seeing Darth Vader show up every now and then and seeing things from his point of view.

Thankfully near the end of the book all of these characters combine to form Captain Planet!! Well they all get together and decide "hey I don't like the empire because this station is evil", so then they try to desert the empire in the last 50 pages or so all while the Death Star is trying to blow up the rebel base (the part in the movie). The only real reason to finish reading is to see if they'll actually survive or just blow up with the station.

So in the end this book is dull, boring and doesn't have much to offer. It allows the star wars fan to see some parts of episode 4 from different point of views but that's about it. You also get to see what's going on in Vader's head when he's fighting Obi Wan which is pretty cool but not that great.

So dont judge a book by its cover huh?