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A review by divyareads
Dark Disciple by Christie Golden
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
spoilers ahead: the ultimate star wars romance - vos and ventress’s love story deserves some real screen time that i hope the bad batch final season can provide. highly recommend to anyone who always kinda wished padme became a jedi 😭
more than that, this novel is a beautiful testament to ventress’s legacy and her devotion to the nightsisters. golden does an amazing job at humanizing the nightsisters in a way i have only seen done a few times in the clone wars. when vos puts her soul to rest, he is the first character i have seen to not see something sinister in the green mist but rather something magnificent. he admires her identity as a nightsister, giving ventress the true peace in death she deserves. ventress, herself, exhibits a tremendous amount of growth in this novel that i would have loved seeing in the animated clone wars series. regardless, i am grateful we have access to this arc and that her story was not put to rest the second she was taken off the screen. golden handles her character perfectly and allows fans to see her as more than an assassin. here, we see her fall in love and unravel her anxieties and deal with the complexities of her relationship to the jedi in depth. her story laid out like this made me cry! maybe one day we will get this arc in some clone wars special, but for now we have this gem of a book.
more than that, this novel is a beautiful testament to ventress’s legacy and her devotion to the nightsisters. golden does an amazing job at humanizing the nightsisters in a way i have only seen done a few times in the clone wars. when vos puts her soul to rest, he is the first character i have seen to not see something sinister in the green mist but rather something magnificent. he admires her identity as a nightsister, giving ventress the true peace in death she deserves. ventress, herself, exhibits a tremendous amount of growth in this novel that i would have loved seeing in the animated clone wars series. regardless, i am grateful we have access to this arc and that her story was not put to rest the second she was taken off the screen. golden handles her character perfectly and allows fans to see her as more than an assassin. here, we see her fall in love and unravel her anxieties and deal with the complexities of her relationship to the jedi in depth. her story laid out like this made me cry! maybe one day we will get this arc in some clone wars special, but for now we have this gem of a book.