David's Review of Red Harvest

4/5 Rancors - Let me just say right off the top that I am not normally a fan of horror books. I realize that the genre is popular now, but zombies and the undead hold no particular appeal for me. However, Red Harvest is a Star Wars book, so I decided to give it a try. I read Death Troopers by the same author last year, so I had some idea of what to expect.

Red Harvest is not a sequel to Death Troopers. The book stands alone. The great majority of the action takes place at a Sith Academy on Odacer-Faustin. Mr. Schreiber does a excellent job of describing the daunting conditions on the planet and the grim atmosphere at the academy. Sith Lord Darth Scabrous is the man in charge at the academy but seems to spend most of his time at the top of a black tower doing mysterious experiments. As seems to be the case with several Sith Lords we have read about, what Scabrous really wants is to find a way to make himself immortal. Of course, his experiments go wrong and we end up with undead creatures all over the place. We also have two Jedi who are caught up in the horror.

Mr. Schreiber's writing is acceptable. The story moves along quickly through short chapters, and I did find that I wanted to see what happened next at the end of each chapter. I suspect that the book will do well enough so that more tales of this Star Wars genre will be published. They are just never going to be my favorites.