5/15/25 - Finished The Last Command, Thrawn trilogy

 Hi, feasyheads!

We're so, so close to the weekend now.

Today, I finally finished The Last Command and thus the Grand Admiral trilogy. I do want to finish and read more books, but this was an absolutely amazing series. I'll write the review of The Last Command today and the review of the Thrawn Trilogy overall on Monday.

Warning: spoilers for the series incoming.

At four hundred and sixty pages, The Last Command is the longest book in the trilogy. However, ~400 pages is a very respectable amount. Not too long or too short. The book itself was small, and reminded me of Ender's Game. About the same font and size. This book was pretty convenient to carry around. The cover art is insanely good, much better than that of the first two. Okay, enough about the physical book.

The plot of the Thrawn trilogy is very well-made, and the antagonists are very enjoyable. Grand Admiral Thrawn and Joruus C'baoth are pretty much always at odds, and think they have the upper hand. 

At the start of The Last Command, the story really focuses on the rebels and their attempts to fight back Thrawn, who has proven over and over that he is nearly impossible to defeat, predict, or locate a weakness for. However, near the end of the story, it really focuses on Luke and Mara's facedown with C'baoth, and that's when I really began to like his character. A really interesting guy. 

Although that part was riveting, and I read with unusual intensity, I felt that the battle the rebels had against Thrawn was a little rushed, especially since we got so much coverage of what was happening with the rebels for most of the story.

This book gets a 9 out of 10. Honestly, this series should've been the sequel trilogy in the movies. They could have at least made a small movie out of it.

All for today. Happy early weekend!

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night/3:00 AM,

Uncle Wally