Acquire Legacy Of The Force: Revelation (Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force, #8) Executed By Karen Traviss Issued As Textbook

by Karen Traviss is the eighth book in the ninebook series Legacy of the Force, In this, the penultimate episode of the rise and fall of Darth Caedus, a, k. a. Jacen Solo: sister Jaina travels to Mandalore to train with Boba Fett on how to hunt Jedis Fett is dealing with family troubles of his own as he discovers that his long lost exwife, whom he thought dead, has actually been frozen in carbonite foryears Caedus asks Admiral Pellaeon of the Imperial Remnant for help in the upcoming assault on Fondor Chief of State Niathal is working secret deals with Luke Skywalker and Pellaeon to help overthrow Caedus Ben Skywalker plays detective, trying to find hard evidence that would indisputably prove Jacens involvement in the murder of Mara Skywalker Luke and the exiled Jedis have a few tricks still left in their Jedi magic bag

While this series has been bogged down with a lot of galactic politics and soap opera drama, Traviss still manages to keep the momentum going, owing to the fact that she is one of the better writers in the SWEU.


Hate to say it, but theres still no canon like the old canon During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solos tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed.
Now with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no onenot even the Solos and the Skywalkersknows if anything can stop the Sith Lord before his plan to save the galaxy ends up destroying it.


Jacen Solos shadow of influence has threatened many, especially those closest to him, Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in, but in order to track him down, she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless, repellent, and dangerous.
Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker, still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother, Mara, decides he must know the truth, even if it costs him his life.
And as Luke Skywalker contemplates once unthinkable strategies to dethrone his nephew, the hour of reckoning for those on both sides draws near, The galaxy becomes a battlefield where all must face their true nature and darkest secrets, and liveor diewith the consequences, Okay here is all I have to say, . . I love the journey that this series is taking the reader, . . but I really wish that they made Darth Caedus to be more of a bad ass, Its like, for the pastvolumes he's been getting his butt kicked by every member of the Star Wars universe, Also, I don't understand how all of the people that hear that he is a dark lord are kinda like, "oh, . . okay. " It just seems like a little bit of an understatement of the severity of the issues that are surrounding the story, Okay here is what I really mean, . . the story simply feels like it has been going way too long and I kinda feel as though a lot of the major events have become trivalized does anyone remember that he kidnapped his daughter Or that he trashed the planet of the Wookies Or that he's a FRICKIN' SITH!.
Anyways thats all I've got waiting patiently for the final book, Exciting book. I do like having Jaina working with Boba Fett, Darth Caedus is not quite as evil as Darth Vader but I don't think that many would be, This series has been very good, Despite its slow points this book does not disappoint, It opens up more about the Boba Fett story line and you can really see how he tries to make sense of a life lived for all the wrong reasons.
The story opens up with Jaina Solo leaving to find Boba Fett to ask him to train her, She learns that there is more than one way to fight and that there some secrets that are better left uncovered, In what seems like an unlikely turn of events we see Jaina realizing that Mandolorians are not that different than her own family and not just mercenaries.


While there is very little in the way a Luke, Han, or Leia in the story, We get to see Ben grow up considerably when we finally gets the hard proof that Jacen was indeed the one that killed his mother.
Later in the story Jacen admits it out loud and is recorded,

The Story moves along at a good pace and the slow points are few and far between, While interesting i think that the Mandolorian story like could almost have been stripped out and made into its own series,
Meh.

Some interesting twists here, but Traviss's poor dialogue writing and her portrayal of Boba Fett as a daddy's boy is too distracting, Example: "By the way Lieutenant, I have a new title, Caedus, Darth Caedus, I would like you to start calling me that now, " WTF Really That's how someone reveals themselves to be a Sith Lord, Not to mention the philosophical conundrum of Jacen

himself, Jacen adopted Sith tactics and teachings because he thinks they can help him bring peace to the galaxy, He doesn't view the act as evil, or his power as evil in and of itself, He thinks that Sith have had moral failings which lead to a universal label of evil, which he intends to avoid, By this book, Traviss has him behaving in a way that acknowledges that he is evil and has turned him into a typically flat caricature of a typical Star Wars bad guy.
I understand that the story is supposed to show his transformation and how one wrong decisions or misperception can lead to a deep slide down a path that you don't intend.
But I just don't feel it, . .
It seems that as this series progresses along it keeps getting better and better, Jacen finally reveals his true colors to the galaxy and Jaina fully embraces her destiny paving the way for the biggest showdown in Star Wars history since the Anakin Skywalker/ObiWan Kenobi showdown in Episode III.
But the most satisfying part of this addition to an incredible series is to finally see Ben Skywalker fully grow into his role as a Jedi.
He may possess a great deal of selfdoubt about his own abilities and moral compass, but I think he will be a great Jedi Knight one day, just like his father.
All in all, a great Star Wars novel, In this installment:

Ben Skywalker works with Lon Shevu, his old friend from the Galactic Alliance Guard, to continue the investigation into his mother's death.
Meanwhile, Jaina realizes that she won't be able to defeat Caedus with her current level of Force training and skills, She travels to Mandalore to solicit the aid of Boba Fett, hoping he will make her fighting style unpredictable enough to get the drop on Jacen.
Meanwhile, Caedus attempts to enlist the aid of the Imperial remnant, hoping that adding their strength to that of the Galactic Alliance will end the civil war.


Karen Traviss remains the most reliable of the three authors working on the Legacy of the Force series, The story arc in these novels seems designed to mirror aspects of the prequel trilogy, chronicling Jacen Solo's descent to the Dark Side and transformation into Darth Caedus.
Thus, the series feels largely derivative, Nonetheless, Traviss keeps me engaged, handling the characters more deftly and attaching real consequences to the choices those characters make,

I especially enjoyed Jaina's time with the Mandalorians, Traviss has a soft spot for Mandalorian culture, and here she draws in plot elements from her Republic Commando series, tying some storylines back up many inuniverse years later.
The idea that you can't fight fire with fire, and that there may need to be another approach to take down a Sith Lord appealed to me.
I also found her take on the idea that the average person in the Old Republic/Empire/Galactic Alliance couldn't care less whether a Jedi or Sith was in charge, as long as their everyday lives went along comfortably.
That insight seemed like a bit of a commentary on contemporary partisan politics,

Still, I'm not overly impressed with this series on the whole, And I don't have high hopes for how Troy Denning will land the ship, He is my least favorite of the authors on this series, and they gave him the final novel, Why Good but a lot of filler, the penultimate novel of the series brought so many things to the table! Definitely anticipating the exciting end with book!

I enjoyed this.
action packed, moving, and really engrossing, But the last few chapters pulled out all the stops,
Kudos to Ben Skywalker with the family meeting and that last scene with Luke nearly made my eyes water,
"Oh, sweetheart you found me. " deep sigh This would have been a five star review if we got to see some of it from Tahiri's POV, There's a lot going on, and a lot of POV characters to balance, as well as characters that steal scenes from the POV characters, But Tahiri feels too important to what happens, to be addressed as lightly as she is here, I don't think this bothered me as much when I initially read it, but having read the NJO it feels undercooked to have her go from where she was in that series to where she is at the end of this novel, with once scene of Jacen teasing her with visions of the past to shift her.


That aside, definately the most fun book of the series not written by Allston, Jacen is chewing scenery, Jaina is finally doing something about the main plot and away from Jag and Zekk to boot I like both, but Jaina needs her own space to breathe sometimes.
Luke feels like a character and a father, and Ben is interesting to read, The Mandalorians are fantastic, and the Imperials are great as well, It's the books like this where everything has been set up and they can smash them all together that make some of these long series worth the format rather than being a trilogy or something.


I was a bit frustrated by the reveal of why Boba left Sintas, I'm interested in finding out whether that was a previously written story, or something invented for this book to retcon the Fett stories written before the prequels.
But I did enjoy all the Fett amp Mirta stuff,

As someone who read the Thrawn and Jedi Academy series as a kid two decades ago, it feels bizarre reading Daala and Palleon as good characters.
I even kind of agreed with some of Daala's points, but given what she does in the next series and the other EU books I've read I don't think I'd be voting for her anytime soon.
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