Although they had won a significant battle, the war between the Rebels and the Empire had really just begun. Soon, Luke, Han, the princess and their faithful companions were forced to flee, scattering in all directions—the Dark Lord’s minions in fevered pursuit.

Before I start this review, I need to say something. I’ve read this book in a collector’s edition which involves the original trilogy books in one big book. And I have decided to review each of these original trilogy books for itself because in that way each review will be shorter and easier to read rather than me giving you like 10 pages long review.

This book have some major differences from the movie than the first book had. The major difference between the movie and the book is that in this book Yoda is blue. I don’t know if it was a typo or the author was very ill informed but at least the copy I have says very clearly that he is blue not green. But other than that the differences are very subtle and small which readers who notice unless they are actively looking for those differences and constantly double crossing this book with the movie.

Other than the differences between this book and the movie, this book doesn’t add much to the “The Empire Strikes Back” timeline which we already didn’t know about from the movie. 

This book was very quick read which I read one snowy Sunday, this book has nearly 220 pages in length which makes this book a very short and quick read.

The author of this book focuses more on the action of this book rather than on the characters, which means that we don’t get a lot of the characters’s personalities shining throughout as much as we did in “a new hope” book which I reviewed not so long ago.

The characters in this book are as good as they are in the movies. But in a way the characters in this book felt pretty flashed out and didn’t feel as good as they did in the a new hope book. 

Even thou the characters aren’t as good as they were in the previous book, I need to say that I liked this book better. Because there is much more action happening in this book, because this book focuses more on action and something important happening more often than in the previous book.

The writing style in this book was okay for the most part. But I personally felt like the author just didn’t care enough to give us a good writing in this book as much as he cared about getting the paycheck for publishing this book. From what I have seen the author is more known from writing comic books rather than writing books which has explained a lot to me personally about the poor writing style in this book.

I Give This Book 4 / 5