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A review by fandom4ever
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Vol. 3: Force War by Wes Dzioba, Dan Parsons, David Michael Beck, John Ostrander, Jan Duursema
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi – Force War abruptly jumps one year after Prisoner of Bogan for some reason. The Je’daii and systems of Tython are in full-swing war with the Rakatan Infinite Empire. In fact, they’ve already conquered and subjugated many planets. Also, Daegen Lok has been taken off Bogan and put in charge of the Je’daii warriors! It would have been nice to see how this happened after they had once more dumped him on Bogan as a lost cause.
The story is good enough but I had problems with some of the aspects of this book; the biggest being Xesh’s character development. I found him pretty interesting in Book 1 and then his slow possible changes in Book 2 as he realized there was more to the Force then just darkness. But when the head Rakatan does the ‘big reveal’ to him aboard his ship and he totally just goes back to the way he was I couldn’t stop the irritation. ‘Oh no, the Je’daii won’t accept me anymore if they knew the things I used to do! Whelp, better just go back to being a slave.’ What?!
It also felt like a hurried wrap-up. We had physical implications for those Force users that heavily used the Dark side in the last battle but it was never brought up by anyone. I guess it was just supposed to hint at what was to come when the Dark side users split off from the Jedi? It was almost like there should have been more issues to this comic series but with the Disney buy-up and cancellation of the EU that wasn’t going to happen so they had to work with what they had.
Overall, I’m glad I read the series. I got enough good parts of where the Jedi Order first began and some of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, that it left me content. I just wish there could have been more.
The story is good enough but I had problems with some of the aspects of this book; the biggest being Xesh’s character development. I found him pretty interesting in Book 1 and then his slow possible changes in Book 2 as he realized there was more to the Force then just darkness. But when the head Rakatan does the ‘big reveal’ to him aboard his ship and he totally just goes back to the way he was I couldn’t stop the irritation. ‘Oh no, the Je’daii won’t accept me anymore if they knew the things I used to do! Whelp, better just go back to being a slave.’ What?!
It also felt like a hurried wrap-up. We had physical implications for those Force users that heavily used the Dark side in the last battle but it was never brought up by anyone. I guess it was just supposed to hint at what was to come when the Dark side users split off from the Jedi? It was almost like there should have been more issues to this comic series but with the Disney buy-up and cancellation of the EU that wasn’t going to happen so they had to work with what they had.
Overall, I’m glad I read the series. I got enough good parts of where the Jedi Order first began and some of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, that it left me content. I just wish there could have been more.