I’ve never ready a Timothy Zahn book before, though I’ve had plenty of opportunity. The plots have just never attracted me. I’ve only read one Star Wars book before: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, by Alan Dean Foster – possibly the first non-film Star Wars book. It was mildly interesting, Read more
I didn't find the characters engaging enough, or the magic intriguing enough, to draw me into the story, and without that, the politics just wasn't very interesting.
An effective fictional study of a few key lives in the history of an Ecuadorian coastal village facing pressure from Spanish colonists.