Maybe I've grown old and snooty... but these last books have been disappointing Imperial Commando: 501st by Karen Traviss A Review This book goes nowhere. Seriously... it's a lot of talking. Things happen, but most of the action is irrelevant to the topic. They're the whole irrational "I'm a Jedi-bigot, but my adopted son/brother and brother's wife were both Jedi" ... plus "can't kill the old Jedi nor the young Jedi" and "Zey saved by his clone trooper" I just don't get it. Zey didn't seem like such a bad character, and they're all blaming the Jedi for Etain's death. Really? There's the whole inoculate-the-world-against-the-latest-Imperial-bioweapon... oh btw, we have the creator of that virus in our camp. That subplot really goes no where... so what, the Empire destroys a world, but we're not close enough to the character or plot to really care. When Chewie got smashed on a dying planet... we cared. It was big. This planet-destroying bioweapon wasn't. Darman's irrational "let's join the Empire to destroy all the Jedi to defend my son" thing is annoying, and apparently unresolved until the next book. So that's pretty much it. A bunch of new characters, but we ultimately care little because they do nothing. Is anyone under attack? Starting a fight? No, not really. The Empire hasn't found them, Mandalore isn't being taken over by force. As far as I can tell, there is really no bad guy... thus no conflict. All the bad-guy-evil-stuff that the Empire and others are doing isn't affecting anyone we care about. There is more background introducing Death Watch and the Jaster Mereel/Jango Fett story... but not enough where I really cared about it. Give us some context please. Since Traviss is no longer even writing the sequel, I wonder if this will really go anywhere. I could see it just ending, and no one would really care because nothing happens in this book.