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    Death Troopers

    Written by Joe Schreiber

    Narrated by Sean Kenin

    3.5/5

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    When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.

    And death is only the beginning.

    The Purge's half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780307578273
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    Death Troopers
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    Joe Schreiber

    JOE SCHREIBER is the New York Times bestselling author of adult novels Death Troopers, Chasing the Dead, and Eat the Dark. His other novels for young people include, the critically acclaimed Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Perry's Killer Playlist, and Lenny Cyrus, School Virus. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and children.

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    • 3/5
      Star Wars. Storm Trooper Zombies. Do I need to explain more? Fun short read, but over far too quickly. It looked as if the author had a limit on pages, because after 130 pages of set up, the tale only focused on zombie alien imperials for a brief period, and it seemed to wrap up nice and neatly due to deus ex machina.
    • 3/5
      The Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down and its only hope is to scavenge a nearby ghost ship Star Destroyer. However, the boarding crew brings back something truly terrible. I won't go into too many spoilers, but this book was a quick and gruesome Star Wars zombie story. It's very fast paced and has a couple of familiar faces. However, the book has faults. I had a hard time imagining the characters as they weren't fleshed out and the pacing was a little too frantic. Details were seriously lacking. (The Star Destroyer was never even given a name!) I enjoyed the concept but the execution could have been better. Horror is one of my favorite genres and I had high expectations for my first Stars Wars horror book. Sadly, they were mostly unfulfilled. If this is was not a Star Wars book, it probably would have been just two stars but I'll give it three for concept and speed.
    • 5/5
      Great mix of sci-fi and horror set in the Star Wars Universe. The sound effects in the audiobook edition really add to the creepy factor, especially when you're by yourself. All around it's an awesome book, and I liked the inclusion of Han Solo & Chewbacca, even if it did seem random. Joe Schreiber is a great author and really makes horror work in the Star Wars universe.
    • 4/5
      A friend recommended this book to me nearly three years ago. I finally picked up a copy, and it was a blast! Oh, the days when you could throw iconic characters into any situation you wanted! As long as Han doesn't die in the end, you could write just about any kind of story.Thus we have zombies in spaaaace! And Star Wars! It was a fun and a quick read. For those who like this kind of thing, you are likely to enjoy it as much as I did. Things moved along quickly, sufficient explanations were offered, and our heroes escaped to return to the canonical Star Wars universe. Although I have to think Han might have ended up with PTSD from this one.
    • 2/5
      Zombie Storm Troopers. Cool idea until - as seems to happen in all Star Wars novels - popular characters from the movies are implausibly thrust into the action.
    • 2/5
      Whenever a new SW book comes out, of course I'm going to buy it and read it, but when it's written by a first-time SW author, I'm always hesitant. Death Troopers is Joe Schreiber's first. It starts out great with a nice pace then quickly deteriorates into a story that contains stereotypical horror genre monsters. I really liked the characters and the beginning held so much promise, but then Schreiber introduces well-established SW characters, so it ruins the story's ending long before it ends. This sci-fi/horror (stereotypical horror, remember) cross genre is incredibly LAME. Big disappointment.
    • 5/5
      Great freaking book best book I've listened to in a while
    • 5/5
      I was reading this book in my mother's Car one day when she went to a doctor's appointment. I sat in the car with head phones on and deeply reading with out a care. next thing I know some old lady pounds on the car door window where I'm sitting her face pressed against the window I look over I jump hitting my head off the roof of the car. she laughs and walks away. I was right at the scary part of the book when it happened. this book is one of my favorite ones I like to read. cause who don't like star wars and zombies. the book was very well written. since I read this about a year ago I still try to look for more star wars zombie books.
    • 5/5
      Very exciting. I am not a fan of zombies but this was an enthralling read that I could not put down. Well,produced with good audio.
    • 4/5
      First off I completely understand why the FANBOYS hated this book when it came out in 2009. By that time the zombie trope was very thinned out. However, Simon Pegg has said that the zombie genre is a setting not a plot line.
      There is nothing special in Death Troopers. It is Star Wars zombies. If you want to read that then pick it up. Schreiber has an ability in this book for amazing descriptions of horror. I listened to the audiobook version and the addition of foley slaps and moist movement sounds made all the difference.
      This is not high art but in October of 2020 this was precisely what I needed that I didn't know I needed. Like all good Star Wars novels this will now send me into the author's back catalogue.

      Four stars because you could do a lot worse. IE The Walking Dead.
    • 5/5
      like an unconcerned lover, meeting you for a “nooner”, Death Troopers is quick and dirty. it doesnt ask you how you are doing or if you are getting close. when it is finished, it rolls out of bed and leaves you staring, asking “what exactly just happened”. you feel a little dirty, then you shower and get back to work. in the end, it is still a nooner, so who can scoff at that? not i.a little background info to explain the above..as a kid, i was an avid book reader. you put it in front of me, and it would be consumed. scifi, conspiracy, historical fiction.. even the babysitters club.i was a blank template for the DnD dice rolling dork who, at 40, woulds till be living in the basement. a virgin, who had +60 defense against magic.i was a sucker for sci-fi movies. i watched starwars, star trek, battle star (original), buck rogers.. my dad ended up recording over our copy of The Beastmaster because my brother and i watched it far far too often.as i got older, conspiracy’s became more of a focus, zombies and the occult.. i began theorizing how i would reinforce structures in case of a zombie apocalypse. i became the dice rolling dork, and escaped with only minimal scarring.although i have been considered a geek for most of my life, i have been able to keep myself out of the uber geek, fanboy, socially scary category. Joe Schreiber screwed that all up for me.by combining Starwars and Zombies into a novel, Joe forced me to pick up a Starwars universe book. this is the first that i have ever read, and as we all know, addictions always start with a single experience…. so.. damn you Joe.. and thank you joe…, . but ultimately.. damn you Joe. i am one step closer to becoming the “starwars kid”. someone keep video cameras away from me for a while.when i bought this, i found that the dust cover on the book was reversible, a poster for the book. the cover itself, instead of being blank as many hard covers, sported the books image.. inside, a timeline for where this book exists in the universe (between 1-5 years before “A New Hope”).The plot is pretty basic, Prison barge breaks down in the abyss of space. a Star Destroyer is sound, which has only 10 life forms aboard. prison guard enters the Star Destroyer to scavenge parts, then all hell breaks loose.For those who say “i dont like star wars, so i wont read this” get over it. this is a horror/zombie novel. Starwars is almost cursory in most places. with the exception of references to familiar starwars species and verbiage, there is not much here that is out of the ordinary for a space/sci-fi storyline. no magic microbes that let you levitate stuff, no “laser swords” or cryptic green man doling out advice from a swamp.for the avid starwars fan, you wont be disappointed by some of the surprises either. some references just cant be made in a review, doing so would just be bad form on my part.in the end, i would suggest this book for any sci-fi or horror fan. at 230 pages, it was fast and fun. i look forward to reading it a second time, and loaning it out.~~To ballantine/del-rey books:Great job on the design of Death troopers. there is one aspect that kinda pissed me off though.What is the point in putting an excerpt in the end of the book for marketing purposes when you choose to put in chapters 3-5? do you realize that with out chapters 1 and 2, we are less likely to read it? that it makes little sense and therefore has a negative impact on the choice to buy the book you have excerpted?in the book you chose, the characters exist nearly 40 years (thank you timeline!!) after a new hope. the book looks good, but it took far too long to get to the point where i understood what was happening. to be honest, if i were to buy the book, i would not read the first two chapters, as i am already far past their usability.i have never run into a teaser excerpt that was mid book, and i hope i never do again.what were you thinking..? very annoying--xpost RawBlurb.com
    • 2/5
      Not too bad, but not what I had hoped for, either. I really would have liked it better if there wasn't a scientific explanation for the zombies - and I am not sure why the author added Han and Chewie except that he recognized that he failed to make the main characters particularly interesting. Han and Chewie's inclusion seemed a bit extraneous... unneeded since they really didn't do all that much. Plus, they came across as flat and uninteresting. Actually, the inclusion of Han and Chewie was so out of place, it took me out of the story. Bam! Characters who can't die. End of suspense.

      The author lost every bit of creepy atmosphere as soon as Han & Chewie entered the story... and too many chapters ended with the characters descending into blackness (often being knocked unconscious).

      The plot device used to keep the zombie plague from spreading through the universe was too unbelievable. The good guys won not because they did anything, but because the bad guys weren't able to figure out how to make zombies travel more than a few kilometers from their "source."

      This novel was not chilling or scary. It was dull for long stretches, with uninteresting characters and a rather bland story. Stephen King can describe the empty corridors of a hotel and make it interesting and spooky - this author was not able to do the same with the empty corridors of a Star Destroyer.
    • 2/5
      Author Joe Schreiber wrote a pretty nasty Star Wars film. Expecting some kind of adventure at the start, I got a horror movie.

      Two brothers, Trig and Kale, are on a prison barge that is broken down, overcrowded and full of cutthroats and murderers of all species. Even a few political prisoners. Not sure exactly where they were being transported to, but it was interesting how Trig and Kale deal with the Mafia-style crime bosses, including cutting a guy's face off!

      I mean, what did they expect after that?

      When needing repairs the barge captain discovers an abandoned Imperial Star Destroyer and they send some crew on board to get parts for their disabled barge. The subplots with Dr. Cory, there because she has to be, the security guard that feels sympathy for some prisoners and the underground crime syndicate that is operating while the stormtroopers look the other way was interesting.

      At this point pretty much all the other subplots are dropped in favor of the horror story. I'm not sure that was such a good idea.
      Then the author drops it all!

      Most of the rest of the book is dealing with zombies -- a new bio-weapon was developed on this Star Destroyer and it inadvertently turned the 1000 plus crew into undead zombies. The virus continues the muscles to move and synapses to fire, even though nobody's home.

      There are some particularly gruesome scenes as the boy's meet their formerly dead father and other identities that they try to communicate with but all the zombie wants to do is eat their brains and suck their marrows dry!

      And guess who we run into on the barge as most of the crew die? Han Solo and Chewbacca! They pretty much take over the story.

      The ending I won't reveal but let's just say it's rushed and leaves more questions than answers. I want to know what happens with that abandoned destroyer. Does the Empire have another store of this virus? Who was the target? How is it delivered and controlled?

      And does Dr. Cory find true love?

      Bottom Line: Story is easy to read and develops relationships well, but then abandons the plots developed at the start with a horror story of a bio weapon that turns dead people into flesh-eating creatures and rushes through that too. An interesting read, but no need to seek this out.

    • 4/5
      I bought a Star Wars t-shirt from Target the other week, first Star Wars t-shirt ever. I finally decided to embrace the geek I am and wear the title with pride. It's an awesome shirt. It's blue with an AT-AT on it, showing what look like the schematics of it. Fantastic shirt and it fits great. Good on ya Target. When I got home, after buying it, I decided to go on Goodreads and ask the group I'm most active in about some recs on Star Wars books.

      I've always stayed away from movie tie-in books. The books are using a movie as cannon fodder so they can't be great, or so my thinking went. I suppose I overlooked that Star Wars began life as a comic book.

      Death Troopers was at the top of the list of recs. Multiple people said, "read it". A few days later, I went to the library and checked out the book. I use my library as a test bed for which books I will ultimately buy. I've checked out quite a few I haven't liked, never finished, thereby saving myself a lot of money.

      Death Troopers is a book I'm going to buy, eventually, to grace my bookshelf. It's a book I'll read more than once. It's really good. The story is great. The twist on the zombie theme is well done. The undead are never called zombies in the book, but when you make undead that eat people, you've made a zombie. There is a fantastic duo in the book, one I didn't think would be in it. I won't give away who they are in case you haven't read the book.

      The writing is great, moves along at a click and never gets bogged down by description. The description that is in the book is top notch, I could see the Star Destroyer in my mind and everything that was going on. And the ending...Wonderful. It's not a 'dance and act like nothing happened' ending. It's the kind of ending I enjoy.

      I definitely recommend the book, even if you are like me before this book; adamant about never reading a Star Wars novel. It's just a great sci-fi book. The twist on zombies is what keeps it at the great level, doesn't allow it to slip down into the nether regions of the pit of sci-fi.

      Go out and get Death Troopers. If you're a sci-fi fan, you'll thank me once you're done reading it.
    • 5/5
      This ended up being really entertaining. I'm sure many Star Wars EU fans didn't like this book at all, There aren't any space battles, no "Big Bad" no fight, and barely any mention of normal Star Wars arcs and history. Oh sure Han Solo and Chewie are randomly inserted into the action and that is kinda lame and eyerolly, but I didn't even care. I had SUCH a good time while reading this book! It was sufficiently creepy and action filled and the pace moved along at a nice clip.

      it is a short fun read that I definitely liked, and I will probably look out for the sequel!

    • 2/5
      This is quite possible the worst story I have ever heard. The story was slow and boring at the beginning. A "medical drama" where they can't figure why inmates on a prison ship are getting sick. When I had almost given up on the story, Han Solo and Chewbacca show up (apparently they were stuck in solitary). This was chapter 18 an I thought they may finally save the day. But two days later I finally figured out what this story was:STAR WARS ZOMBIES!I just couldn't get over it within two chapters it had got too ridiculous and stupid even for me. I gave up and returned my audio book to the library without completion. I tried taking breaks for a couple days at a time listening to old FM, but still no resolve. The one positive I can report about this audio book, and the reason I didn't give it the far lower star score the story deserved, is the "cinemetography" and "special effects" of the audio book. For example, they continued to play a deep low engine sound in the background. So much that even when I turned the bass all the way down, it continues to rattle my low quality speakers at time. Blasters, voices, droids, everything you could expect from a story that continues in the tradition of "industrial light and magic" but on audio CD. This had it. The story set between the Episode III and Episode IV (which I think was closer to Episode IV though the logo on the back said it was in the Episodide III range) was horrible and certainly not work reading. The Audio effects of the audio book were fantastic, my guess is that other Star Wars audio books by the same producer would be similar, and suggest you start there. Skip the Star Wars Zombies. Zombies are dumb, they are even dumber in a Star Wars universe.
    • 5/5
      Great
    • 4/5
      a little slow at the beginning but I like it at the end.
    • 5/5
      amazing
    • 5/5
      A first in the Star Wars universe, Joe Schreiber’s Del Rey novel Star Wars: Death Troopers is the first ever R rated Star Wars horror novel. After Purge, an Imperial prison barge, suddenly and unexpectedly breaks down in the middle of nowhere, the crew discovers a mysterious and seemingly deserted Star Destroyer. With the current engine troubles a daring team is sent out to scavenge the Star Destroyer for the parts required to fix Purge. The team would come back empty handed, for if they only knew just how empty handed they truly returned with. As a medical phenomenon begins, nearly all of Purge’s inhabitants suddenly become ill and drop dead within the span of hours. With only a handful of survivors, the book leads on a tale of thrills, spooks, and shocks.
    • 5/5
      like an unconcerned lover, meeting you for a “nooner”, Death Troopers is quick and dirty. it doesnt ask you how you are doing or if you are getting close. when it is finished, it rolls out of bed and leaves you staring, asking “what exactly just happened”. you feel a little dirty, then you shower and get back to work. in the end, it is still a nooner, so who can scoff at that? not i.a little background info to explain the above..as a kid, i was an avid book reader. you put it in front of me, and it would be consumed. scifi, conspiracy, historical fiction.. even the babysitters club.i was a blank template for the DnD dice rolling dork who, at 40, woulds till be living in the basement. a virgin, who had +60 defense against magic.i was a sucker for sci-fi movies. i watched starwars, star trek, battle star (original), buck rogers.. my dad ended up recording over our copy of The Beastmaster because my brother and i watched it far far too often.as i got older, conspiracy’s became more of a focus, zombies and the occult.. i began theorizing how i would reinforce structures in case of a zombie apocalypse. i became the dice rolling dork, and escaped with only minimal scarring.although i have been considered a geek for most of my life, i have been able to keep myself out of the uber geek, fanboy, socially scary category. Joe Schreiber screwed that all up for me.by combining Starwars and Zombies into a novel, Joe forced me to pick up a Starwars universe book. this is the first that i have ever read, and as we all know, addictions always start with a single experience…. so.. damn you Joe.. and thank you joe…, . but ultimately.. damn you Joe. i am one step closer to becoming the “starwars kid”. someone keep video cameras away from me for a while.when i bought this, i found that the dust cover on the book was reversible, a poster for the book. the cover itself, instead of being blank as many hard covers, sported the books image.. inside, a timeline for where this book exists in the universe (between 1-5 years before “A New Hope”).The plot is pretty basic, Prison barge breaks down in the abyss of space. a Star Destroyer is sound, which has only 10 life forms aboard. prison guard enters the Star Destroyer to scavenge parts, then all hell breaks loose.For those who say “i dont like star wars, so i wont read this” get over it. this is a horror/zombie novel. Starwars is almost cursory in most places. with the exception of references to familiar starwars species and verbiage, there is not much here that is out of the ordinary for a space/sci-fi storyline. no magic microbes that let you levitate stuff, no “laser swords” or cryptic green man doling out advice from a swamp.for the avid starwars fan, you wont be disappointed by some of the surprises either. some references just cant be made in a review, doing so would just be bad form on my part.in the end, i would suggest this book for any sci-fi or horror fan. at 230 pages, it was fast and fun. i look forward to reading it a second time, and loaning it out.~~To ballantine/del-rey books:Great job on the design of Death troopers. there is one aspect that kinda pissed me off though.What is the point in putting an excerpt in the end of the book for marketing purposes when you choose to put in chapters 3-5? do you realize that with out chapters 1 and 2, we are less likely to read it? that it makes little sense and therefore has a negative impact on the choice to buy the book you have excerpted?in the book you chose, the characters exist nearly 40 years (thank you timeline!!) after a new hope. the book looks good, but it took far too long to get to the point where i understood what was happening. to be honest, if i were to buy the book, i would not read the first two chapters, as i am already far past their usability.i have never run into a teaser excerpt that was mid book, and i hope i never do again.what were you thinking..? very annoying--xpost RawBlurb.com
    • 3/5
      Star Wars. Storm Trooper Zombies. Do I need to explain more? Fun short read, but over far too quickly. It looked as if the author had a limit on pages, because after 130 pages of set up, the tale only focused on zombie alien imperials for a brief period, and it seemed to wrap up nice and neatly due to deus ex machina.
    • 4/5
      A great book! Zombies and Star Wars, what could be better.

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    • 3/5
      A quick read, nothing to deep. The ending got a little rushed and magical. This is the first Star Wars book I've read and it was interesting enough that I'll probably pick up another when nothing better catches my attention.
    • 2/5
      Read this right after I had finished the semi-prequel, Red Harvest. It was ok. I feel like the author spent way too much time showing us the characters and setting (more than half the book) before anything actually happened. There wasn't much in the way of suspense or real horror in the story. Even worse, it didn't feel like a Star Wars story at all, even with the addition of Han Solo and Chewbacca as lead characters (although, they didn't come in until more than halfway through the story, which was strange).I really only recommend this story for Star Wars completest. It'll leave anyone else a bit bored and scratching their head.
    • 4/5
      God help me, but I liked this book. I didn't want to and didn't really think I would, but well, I did...and most likely because I didn't expect much from it in the first place.When I first heard of a Star Wars book about zombies, I could only predict disastrous results. Zombies are fine and good, but I couldn't imagine their presence in my beloved Star Wars universe; it just didn't feel right. But I can't deny I was curious. I saw that Death Troopers was also a fairly short read, so I picked it up.A whaddya know, a few chapters in and I actually started having fun. I mean, wookiee zombies? And there was that delightful surprise when a couple of old friends showed up...Sure, there were lots of plot holes and things that didn't make any sense, but that was fine because this book was also everything its cover promised -- blood, gore, dismembered body parts, flesh eating Stormtroopers and Imperial zombies, children being put through the most horrible and terrifying situations, etc. I mean, you don't pick up a book like this and expect anything more. It delivered where it was supposed to, and that's what matters to me.That said, it's probably pretty obvious, but this is not your family-friendly general-audience type of Star Wars book. A little kid would probably have nightmares after reading this.Anyway, now I'm thinking about picking up Red Harvest, Schreiber's other zombie/Star Wars mash-up book that was released a few months ago...and trying not to feel dirty for it. These books belong in my closet of guilty pleasures for sure.
    • 2/5
      I am not a Star Wars fan. I enjoy the original trilogy films, but beyond that, I have no interest. So why would I read a Star Wars book and expect to enjoy it? A couple of reasons. First, I like to try different genre stuff. Maybe I'm missing something. Zombie Storm Troopers? That's kinda hard to resist. Also, I heard an interview with Joe Schreiber, and he seems like a good egg. So why not give it try?Mr. Schreiber is a competent writer. There were no glaring mistakes or serious plot holes. The dialog wasn't bad (he nailed Han Solo's dialog, and I wondered if he watched the movies repeatedly to do it — it all sounded too familiar). I just found the book boring. Nothing interesting went on, nothing creepy. You know who survives for sure, and the character's whose survival is in jeopardy I didn't care about. Besides, there is nothing all that Star Warsy about the story. Change the names of two character and it's zombies in space. Really. Change two character names to Frank and Bill, change couple character/species references to Dark Invader and Hairy Guy and it's a piece of genre fiction, not Star Wars (I know I'm not funny, but you get my point. It's generic).So, is this a Star Wars fans only type of work? I don't see how. They get bored too.
    • 4/5
      While on a routine transport mission back to home base, the Imperial prison barge "Purge" suffers a mechanical malfunction, forcing all engines to stop. Unable to repair the broken equipment with what they have on hand, the crew discovers a Star Destroyer adrift in space near them. Their hails return no responses, and all scans report that no life forms are aboard so the ship's Captain drafts a salvage crew together to head over to the derelict ship to find anything they can use to repair the "Purge".The eerie silence aboard the Star Destroyer unsettles the salvage crew, yet they trudge onward, breaking into two teams to find anything to repair their ship. Something comes with them when they make their way back to the "Purge", and within hours, most of the crew and the prisoners develop strong, flu-like symptoms then die agonizing deaths. For the handful of survivors -- a lone female doctor, the brothers Trig and Kale Longo, a mean-spirited Captain of the Guards and two rogue smugglers -- their troubles have only just begun. Because the dead are waking up, and they're very hungry."Death Troopers" surprised me. I thought it would be just another franchise trying to jump into the zombie foray because it's the flavor of the moment. But I found Joe Schreiber's twist on the zombies quite refreshing. These creepy crawlies learned -- and very quickly -- and then communicated with others like them. But what made this a more intense story was placing everyone within the confines of a mostly dark space ship. Where do you go when there really is no place left to run? Much of the imagery took the "mad scientist" concept to a new level, with such things as large tanks filled with a thick liquid and human parts still intact and still functioning. (It was actually an eerily beautiful scene.)I'm not sure the addition of Han Solo and Chewbacca to the story added much, except to reinforce that this novel falls into the Star Wars universe. A few times, I also scratched my head trying to figure out how a character managed to get from one place to another. One such instance occurred with the Longo brothers that seemed -- to me -- to defy logical explanation. That, however, did not affect my enjoyment of the novel, and I believe that fans of the the zombie genre will enjoy it as well.
    • 4/5
      This is my first dive into the Star Wars universe via the book world. I have always been a huge Star Wars fan, but through the movies and cartoons only. Although I have frequently perused Star Wars novels in bookstores, I always shied away from purchasing them because the Star Wars legacy is so large now that I felt I would be lost. But then I saw Death Troopers and was fascinated by its description on two fronts, 1) it had Storm Troopers in it, I have always loved Storm Troopers, they are my favorite evil army. 2) This book also has zombies, (some of which were former Storm Troopers, yeah!!) The premise is a little different for a Star Wars book, but it was still enjoyable. Schreiber brought his characters to life, and even in far fetched stories, if the reader empathizes with the characters, the story comes to life. Han Solo and Chewbacca make an appearance in this story as well, and the author worked well with them, I could totally envision Harrison Ford acting out the Solo role.This book has freed me from my fear of delving into Star Wars stories. I will certainly visit the galaxy far, far away again.
    • 3/5
      A nice concept. Star Wars & Zombies. Zombies are definitely in vogue (hopefully to knockoff vampires soon!). One thing I really liked about the book was the quick jump into action. Not a lot of dawdling. However, the book seem suited to more YA. Like it was trying to be scary, but it really wasn't. Otherwise, a nice side-story in the SW lexicon. Oh, and I loved the surprise characters.