Read every Star Wars novel

Good – the rise of Jacen as Sith.

Okay…so…I love Stover’s work and all, and there is much to like here…and Stover is one of the better Star Wars authors…

But, ya know…my expectations may have been too high.

It could have been better.

I don’t expect much out of Troy Denning, so I can’t complain about this. It was fairly good and builds the Jacen = bad well.

Legacy of the Force is shaping up alright.

Very solid entry from Karen Miller. It’s a little slow and dry, but excellent characterization of Obi-Wan and Bail Organa.

Karen Traviss is my Star Wars Goddess. Order 66 is the best of her SW work (with two of her LOTF novels to go) and Bloodlines ain’t too shabby, either.

Basically, Order 66 is everything I want from Karen Traviss.

This opening to the Legacy of the Force series is a great opening. Aaron Allston was the right man to set the table and he does so with some solid action and humor in just the right places. Star Wars needs more of Aaron Allston.

Ahh, Sean Williams, how I expected more from you.

While not bad like the other video game adaption (The Ruins of Dantooine), The Force Unleashed was still an overall disappointment. While this could be said about most books in general and most Star Wars in particular, I don’t think The Force Unleashed really added anything to the canon. Yeah, it tied in to the forming of the Rebel Alliance and we get Vader, Palpatine, and a little Leia, but after reading it I got the feeling of “yeah? So what?”

Disappointing.

The usually reliable Karen Traviss makes a small misstep here. The Clone Wars is minor Traviss, which is still pretty good but she is so much better than this book.

The only thing I can think of is that she was either given a tiny page / word count, or the script to the animated movie was so bad that it was a minor miracle she did this well to begin with.

Either way…a good and fast read, but Traviss can do far better.

ehhh…it also sucked less than the Joiner King, but I really couldn’t have been happier to be finished with this trilogy. So bad.

Except for his Death Star novel, Michael Reaves is a consistently good SW writer. Jedi Twilight is no different. Set after Revenge of the Sith, the novel (first of a trilogy) features characters introduced in earlier Clone Wars novels. Reaves is good enough of a writer to make these minor characters matter.

Looking forward to Street of Shadows.