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This series as a whole suffers from being in the unenviable position of having to cover events that are simultaneously new ground and ancient history. Thanks to the Legacy comics, we know that Jagged Fel and Jaina Solo will become Emperor and Empress and will command the services of a Jedi splinter order; we know that Ben Skywalker will have two sons, and that these children do not show any signs of being from a broken home in their adult life; we know that the Galactic Alliance is not consumed from within by an eldritch abomination, and we know that the Lost Tribe of the Sith eventually amount to nothing in the grand scheme of things. The series in general, and this book in particular, seems to resent these things as given and is determined to draw out how they occur in as protracted and painful a manner as possible.
First and foremost: The melodrama that is Ben and Vestara's relationship is getting ridiculous. Granted, they are teenagers and teenagers are always going to be a bit over the top, particularly if they are teenagers that regularly have to decide matters of life and death, but given that - barring spectacularly anticlimactic revelations in the endgame of the series - we know that they are going to eventually have children, the angst is starting to be beyond tiresome.
Likewise, one of the primary draws of the series is for Legacy fans to discover the history of the creation of the Fel Empire and the Imperial Knights, and at present, both have been excessively prolonged. Several opportunities for forward movement occurred in this book, and yet there is scarcely any progress. As the series is fast reaching its climax, some progress had better be made fairly quickly.
As to the book itself, it feels very rushed. The segments dealing with the two aforementioned topics read as though they were originally much longer and have been cut down. The segments dealing with the political conspiracy are much more fleshed out, and considerably more interesting to read, even though the direction they take is so profoundly obvious that the book's twist ending is not even remotely a surprise.
On the whole, this is not the best entry in a series that is generally not as groundbreaking as it is supposed to be.
First and foremost: The melodrama that is Ben and Vestara's relationship is getting ridiculous. Granted, they are teenagers and teenagers are always going to be a bit over the top, particularly if they are teenagers that regularly have to decide matters of life and death, but given that - barring spectacularly anticlimactic revelations in the endgame of the series - we know that they are going to eventually have children, the angst is starting to be beyond tiresome.
Likewise, one of the primary draws of the series is for Legacy fans to discover the history of the creation of the Fel Empire and the Imperial Knights, and at present, both have been excessively prolonged. Several opportunities for forward movement occurred in this book, and yet there is scarcely any progress. As the series is fast reaching its climax, some progress had better be made fairly quickly.
As to the book itself, it feels very rushed. The segments dealing with the two aforementioned topics read as though they were originally much longer and have been cut down. The segments dealing with the political conspiracy are much more fleshed out, and considerably more interesting to read, even though the direction they take is so profoundly obvious that the book's twist ending is not even remotely a surprise.
On the whole, this is not the best entry in a series that is generally not as groundbreaking as it is supposed to be.