The second volume of this trilogy amplifies the action and the tension to such a high degree that i was cursing myself for not being able to read faster. The novel is interesting, and is exactly what the middle of a trilogy should be.

Plod through and you will be rewarded. Almost all of the significant surviving characters from the original movie trilogy are present (and some that were previously only glimpsed) we eventually see resolutions and convergence that introduce key charac...  Read More

Leia is once again torn between her ever-increasing duties to the new republic and her desire to spend more time with her three children. In an especially gripping chapter early in the book, leia is a passenger in an expanded b-wing fighter that is cr...  Read More

This book is the worst of the subpar and ouright terrible jedi academy trilogy. It reminds me of a 'little britain' sketch where a woman author is dictating her new book and starts reading the bible out to make up the space. The author tries to write ...  Read More

Dark apprentice is a cliched mess that's not worth picking up. There's not any room for subtlety. Vague passages are either superfluous or generic descriptions.

I was incensed to find that luke was actually made 'boring' in this book. A silly bad guy who's supposed to be kind of like vader, but isn't.

It's as if anderson felt that he had to use all of the characters in the sw universe, but couldn't decide how to make them fit together. Anderson writes luke to be a blind neanderthal. Anderson has no coherrant plot, his characters are way too powerfu...  Read More