Chaos Rising Part 3

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Welcome to our third of four check-in and discussion posts for our Book of the Month.

This month’s book is Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn
Part 3: Chapter 13 - Chapter 18

Chaos Rising Part 3

1. Outside the Chaos, the Clone Wars are raging. How are they going to tie the Galactic Republic happenings in the Chiss Ascendancy?

2. What are your thoughts about Thalia's meeting with the family patriarch?

3. The author is being pretty clear that Thrawn isn't politically savvy, despite being tactically intelligent. Do you think we will see his political missteps come to a head this book or over will it unravel over the course of the trilogy?

4. Any predictions for how the book will end?



FYI - There's no need to answer all (or any) of the questions above - they're just talking points to get us started. Informal chatter is more than welcome! In-person book clubs often veer off topic, it's okay if we do as well. :)
All I ask is that you try to avoid spoilers for things past Part III of the book.

Comments

[barbiejedi]

Zahn will eventually need/want to explain how Thrawn came to work for the Empire
The first Thrawn book of the new canon handled Thrawn's "discovery" by the Empire and how he was folded into the system, but it's been a while since I read it and I can't remember if it delved into the whys and hows of him leaving the Chiss. I'm expecting that the last book in this trilogy will set it all up more neatly.

I'm a little flummoxed as to why Zahn added the Thrawn-meeting-Anakin bits to this book/trilogy, honestly, because I thought it had already been dealt with in the three previous Thrawn books and that these were going to be more focused on Chiss space than areas controlled by the Republic/Empire.


Thrawn's sister was a sky-walker!
I was also super intrigued by that! Or that at least Thrawn believes she was taken to be a sky-walker. He says that his parents refused to tell him where she went, and that he only made the sky-walker assumption when he was promoted to bridge-officer rank and learned about them. It's entirely possible that he'll turn out to be wrong-- it would certainly be a heck of a twist.

[astromech1138]

Oh that is super interesting to know, re: Thrawn/Empire! I guess I'm confused, too, now, why Thrawn meets Anakin in this book, if it's not to set up how he joins the Empire. Maybe Zahn is succumbing to the Disney effect (i.e. cameos galore) ;)