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Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss

By: Steven Barnes
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
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Jedi Master Mace Windu travels to a dangerous, remote planet on a mission that challenges even his deadly prowess—all to fulfill Qui-Gon’s last request.

The Jedi are reeling from Qui-Gon Jinn’s sudden death at the hands of a Sith. Jedi Master Mace Windu’s feelings about Qui-Gon have always been complicated—and have not been made any simpler by death. While they often disagreed, Mace valued Qui-Gon’s unique perspective, and their shared dedication to the Force made them allies. Without Qui-Gon and his unorthodox views, Mace feels out of balance.

While considering his fallen friend’s legacy, Mace is surprised to receive a final message from Qui-Gon, marked to be delivered to Mace in the event of Qui-Gon’s death. The message contains a last request: a plea to help the Outer Rim planet Metagos.

Many years ago, a violent solar flare transformed the surface of the desert planet into a landscape of irradiated glass—as beautiful as it is dangerous. Now most of the surviving inhabitants live underground, where rival clans fight to control the planet’s limited resources. As a young Jedi, Qui-Gon protected the Sa’ad farming clan from the planet’s less-scrupulous factions. The Sa’ad practice the art of dream-weaving, retaining their waking minds upon sleep in order to communicate and coexist with the wild creatures around them. Qui-Gon vowed to return if they ever required his aid, but now it falls to Mace to fulfill that promise. The Sa’ad’s leader, KinShan Nightbird, has begged for the Jedi’s help in freeing Metagos from the crime lords who threaten to eradicate her people’s way of life.

Intent on carrying out Qui-Gon’s final wishes, Mace travels to Metagos and infiltrates the enemies of the Sa’ad. But as the Jedi Master investigates the intricate web of adversaries and allies, Mace finds himself pushed to the boundaries of the Jedi code, with his beliefs and his relationship to the Force itself challenged.

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Good Story

The storyline was good. It has good action scenes and it introduces new characters. It's nice to hear more of Mace Windu's adventures. However, the narrator isn't as good as the others. I feel that Mark Thompson or Johthan Davis would do a far better job. They bring real life to the characters and draw you into the story.

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Better than Shatterpoint

Fantastic look into the human side of mace windu. Incredible plot and character development. The audio book also was very high quality voice as well as background elements that really added to the story. Definitely check this out if you’re a mace windu fan.

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Disappointed I am

Was very eager for a Mace story and got this. I think it could have been better with the correct narrator. Why are they not using Marc or Jonathan. Even a bad story is good when they read it. And I am not saying it’s bad, it’s just not what I expected.

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More Mace!

I’m glad to get more lore about Mace Windu. It’s a good story exploring his inner conflict, making him even better to root for.

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Starts strong - Finishes weak

Started so strong. There’s this “we are so back” moment, however about halfway through, all that momentum slides off the tracks. If you want a better Mace Windu story please look up “Shatterpoint”.

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Great Character exploration

Interesting dove into what makes Mace Windu who he is. The narrator does an amazing job. I found the music distracting, but it did help ground you in the Star Wars universe. Deep thoughts on healing and how our choices affect us. Looking forward to reading it again soon.

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Okay Story

It wasn’t a bad story. It just didn’t work for me. I may give it another listen in the future.

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Another great Star Wars story...

An other great Star Wars story with a stand alone character. I tight Shatterpoint was a great story as well.

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Good view into Mace Windu

I think it was excellent to really sink into Mace Windu as a character beyond the stoicism he displays in the movies. In fact one of the things I like best about this book is how much of Mace’s personality and life parallels Anakin’s and if Mace had only allowed his facade of perfection to drop with Anakin he may have been able to influence Anakin down a different path.

I thought the world described in the book was beautiful and that the main villain was very interesting.

Now I’m only left wondering if Mace somehow survived being thrown out of a building in Revenge of the Sith.

The narration was missing some personality though and the various characters voices were not well differentiated, which was a bit confusing at times. But not so much that I didn’t enjoy an otherwise good audio book.

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A Mace Windu love story

Good story. Would like more Mace stories. Good Listen. Maybe he returned after Order 66 to finish the adventures.

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