欧宝娱乐

I have read enough Star Wars books to know that when it comes to my favorite fake galaxy, things are far from egalitarian along gender lines. More often than not, women are shifted to the sidelines and the stories revolve around the doings of men. You know, the usual sexism that's prevalent in all forms of media: Men are important, women are tokens/sexual objects. This book though, this book decided to take it to a new level.

There are quite literally, NO women of note in the entire novel. None. That is not an exaggeration. There are some bar maids, a few references to Mara Jade and the corpse of a woman who is seen in a very brief recording. That's it. Why? Why no women in this book, I'd like to know. Things like this don't happen by accident, they happen by design. So why did the author feel that every single one of his characters had to be male (most of them appear to be bearded human men, like himself, as well. Hmmm)? It is profoundly disturbing to me that the author could live in a world that is comprised of 51% women and girls and yet be unable to imagine a role for even one in his book. (Not to mention the author's apparent disgust for fat people, which was fairly off-putting)

And that doesn't even address the poor characterization, the crappy writing and the uninspired plot(s). What does a time traveling space ship with a cargo hold filled with Macguffin have to do with insane Force clones? The two had nothing to do with one another and the "Sith ship from the past!" hook went absolutely no where and was utterly pointless. Wookipedia tells me that Crosscurrent "ties into the Lost Tribe of the Sith" series, and that there will be a sequel to Crosscurrent (gods, WHY). Maybe one of those books/novellas will explain the point of the useless Relin/Saes/sloppily-explained-time-jumping-ship, but (what is presented as) a self-contained book should not be relying on follow up stories to justify itself.

This book is just atrocious on so many levels.