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  • Written by: Timothy Zahn
  • Narrated by: Marc Thompson
  • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,536 ratings)

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Thrawn (Star Wars)

Written by: Timothy Zahn
Narrated by: Marc Thompson
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Publisher's Summary

In this definitive novel, listeners will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.

©2017 Timothy Zahn (P)2017 Random House Audio

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Higher production quality than most

I don’t know if it’s because it’s penguin publishing or Star Wars, but the production is amazing. The narrator does every voice exquisitely, no question. More exciting however, is the amount of sound effects and background music present. Classic Star Wars themes are added to key moments, blaster shots and the like as well.

But what really blew me away, was that wherever the story was taking place, they added a background sound to set the stage; a conversation on a star destroyer? They add a subtle hum.
They’re on a jungle planet? They add birds and cicada like sounds.

The quality of this audio was on another level entirely.

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bad, gets out of trouble in the nick of time

bad story. gets out of trouble in the nick of time, way too easily. the character development was meh.

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Solid modernisation of the classic character

Well voiced with the right amount of terrible (read: fantastic) sound effects. Plus the links to Star Wars: Rebels firmly sets Thrawn in the new canon which is neat.

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Un retour réussi pour Thrawn

en plus d'une histoire vraiment captivante, la narration de Marc Thompson est fantastique. je recommande pour tous amateur de star wars

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so glad Tharwn is back!

so glad that they made Thrawn official again, the pacing of this story was perfect.

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So glad Thrawn was brought into canon.

Loved it. It would have been a shame for Disney to pass on Zahn's character Thrawn. Marc's voice acting for Thrawn was on point.

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Amazing

first audiobook, was blown away. set the standard for me for what an audio book should be.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I couldn't put it down and I can't wait for the sequel. Thrawn is a great star wars character who'd deserves to be part of the canon story.

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Excellent delivery of audible content

Probably one of the best audible experiences so far because of the efforts in voice acting for different characters and use of actual star wars music as characters engage in battle or other action scenes.

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Meh.

Reads like a YA outake from the Red Rising series. Struggled to finish it. The final few chapters were moderately interesting when motivations are revealed, but earlier than that is for super fans only. Unlikely to read any more in the series.

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