A review by griffinhoneycutt
Champions of the Force by Kevin J. Anderson

3.0

I would say that this is a low three, but definitely a three nonetheless. I thought it had a very strong start, and there were a lot of directions that things could have gone. Kyp's story was interesting, and it was a great twist to have him kill his own brother. However, things got out of hand pretty quickly. One after another, plot lines just started wrapping up like KJA wanted to speedrun every loose end he had. Having Luke start out with his spirit ripped from his body was cool, and a good way to force his students to step up and actually do something, but then Exar Kun was defeated about 1/3 of the way through the book, as was Kyp, so it really felt like things were piddling around until the end, where almost every single relevant character just happened to run into each other and slug it out (though admittedly it was a cool battle, and Tol Sivron and his crew were hilarious). There's also an awesome Jedi healing scene at the end which is exactly the type of thing I wanted from this trilogy. I understand the importance that this trilogy has to the Legends lore, and I'm glad that I read it, but I'm left more disappointed than anything and I can't see myself returning to this run again.