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KNIGHT OF RECKONING
The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire—as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group. Now he’s taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the Force . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen.
KNIGHT OF RECKONING
The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire—as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group. Now he’s taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the Force . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen.
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Michael Reaves
130 books211 followersMichael Reaves is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and screenwriter whose many credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twilight Zone, Batman: The Animated Series, and Gargoyles. His novels include the New York Times bestseller STAR WARS: Darth Maul- Shadowhunter and STAR WARS: Death Star. He and Neil Gaiman cowrote Interworld. Reaves has also written short fiction, comic books, and background dialogue for a Megadeth video. He lives in California.
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July 16, 2012Well, I loved writing it. And working with Michael was, as always, fantastic. And I loooove the cover. :)
July 28, 2019
There already was a Last Jedi story before the recent sequels? Man, did Disney
really
mess up Star Wars!
I'll be honest: I didn't care for the recent film with the same title; it was a definite shark jumping moment for one of my favorite franchises.
So, when I first saw this at a garage sale recently, I thought: NO WAY!
However, when I read the summary on the inside front flap, I realized that this wasn't based on that travesty of a film; it was an original story set in the Expanded Universe, which the House of Mouse has sadly reduced to "legends" status.
Figuring anything could be better than that Episode VIII dreck, I decided to give it a read...and I was glad I did!
Intensity, drama, a great plot...this is what I've come to expect from Lucas' space opera!
I still say Disney or Lucasfilm should reboot the films and give us a celluloid adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy; who agrees?
I'll be honest: I didn't care for the recent film with the same title; it was a definite shark jumping moment for one of my favorite franchises.
So, when I first saw this at a garage sale recently, I thought: NO WAY!
However, when I read the summary on the inside front flap, I realized that this wasn't based on that travesty of a film; it was an original story set in the Expanded Universe, which the House of Mouse has sadly reduced to "legends" status.
Figuring anything could be better than that Episode VIII dreck, I decided to give it a read...and I was glad I did!
Intensity, drama, a great plot...this is what I've come to expect from Lucas' space opera!
I still say Disney or Lucasfilm should reboot the films and give us a celluloid adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy; who agrees?
July 8, 2025
7/8/2025 addendum: This book, published in 2013, is not to be confused with the 2017 film of the same name. It's confusing, I know. You'll be alright...
Michael Reaves, whose input in the Star Wars Expanded Universe has been notable (at current count, he's written nine books in the Star Wars book franchise), brings back his character Jax Pavan in "The Last Jedi", this time with co-author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
While I enjoyed "The Last Jedi", it did not have the same spark and appeal that the first three Pavan books (The Coruscant Nights trilogy) had for me. Not that "The Last Jedi" wasn't exciting and entertaining. It was. The Reaves/Bohnhoff writing team continues all the excellent character development and storytelling that Reaves started in the Coruscant Nights trilogy. My complaint has nothing to do with the technical aspects of the writing.
My first complaint, which is petty and not even really a complaint, is that "The Last Jedi" breaks from the formula of the first three books by transplanting Pavan off the planet Coruscant and having him gallivanting around the galaxy. I realize that this opens the door for a wide variety of more fun and excitement, but I was growing used to the idea of Pavan working within the heart of the Empire. I also liked the loosely-noir structure of the series, in which Pavan is a former Jedi Knight turned private eye/gun for hire. The wise-cracking sidekicks, the femme fatales, the shadowy Imperial agents hounding him around every corner: this is "The Maltese Falcon" within the Star Wars universe.
I suppose it was inevitable that Pavan would have to, at some point, leave Coruscant. It makes sense, and the noir structure of the Coruscant Nights trilogy was a limiting factor in the ultimate development of Pavan's character, a character that is quickly becoming a fan favorite. He does, after all, embody the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance. (His character, and some of the others in the series, are also, I'm guessing, the inspiration for the new TV show "Star Wars Rebels" on Disney XD, a show mainly targeted for tweens and teenagers but is actually compelling enough for adults to enjoy.)
Another complaint I have with "The Last Jedi" is that it is almost too ambitious. There is a lot of stuff, plot-wise, going on in the book. In my opinion, Reaves/Bohnhoff could have easily turned this one book into another trilogy, taking the time to expand on some of the story lines within it, especially the Whiplash attempt to assassinate Emperor Palpatine, the capture of Thi Xon Yimmon, and Pavan's possession of Drath Ramage's mysterious holocron---all of which are fascinating story lines that Reaves/Bohnhoff could have devoted whole novels to. While adding to the extremely fast pacing of the novel, this overambitious plotting ultimately makes the book seem rushed, and I felt like I may have been missing a few details along the way.
Overall, though, "The Last Jedi" is another good read in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and I hope it is not the last we see of Jax Pavan.
Michael Reaves, whose input in the Star Wars Expanded Universe has been notable (at current count, he's written nine books in the Star Wars book franchise), brings back his character Jax Pavan in "The Last Jedi", this time with co-author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
While I enjoyed "The Last Jedi", it did not have the same spark and appeal that the first three Pavan books (The Coruscant Nights trilogy) had for me. Not that "The Last Jedi" wasn't exciting and entertaining. It was. The Reaves/Bohnhoff writing team continues all the excellent character development and storytelling that Reaves started in the Coruscant Nights trilogy. My complaint has nothing to do with the technical aspects of the writing.
My first complaint, which is petty and not even really a complaint, is that "The Last Jedi" breaks from the formula of the first three books by transplanting Pavan off the planet Coruscant and having him gallivanting around the galaxy. I realize that this opens the door for a wide variety of more fun and excitement, but I was growing used to the idea of Pavan working within the heart of the Empire. I also liked the loosely-noir structure of the series, in which Pavan is a former Jedi Knight turned private eye/gun for hire. The wise-cracking sidekicks, the femme fatales, the shadowy Imperial agents hounding him around every corner: this is "The Maltese Falcon" within the Star Wars universe.
I suppose it was inevitable that Pavan would have to, at some point, leave Coruscant. It makes sense, and the noir structure of the Coruscant Nights trilogy was a limiting factor in the ultimate development of Pavan's character, a character that is quickly becoming a fan favorite. He does, after all, embody the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance. (His character, and some of the others in the series, are also, I'm guessing, the inspiration for the new TV show "Star Wars Rebels" on Disney XD, a show mainly targeted for tweens and teenagers but is actually compelling enough for adults to enjoy.)
Another complaint I have with "The Last Jedi" is that it is almost too ambitious. There is a lot of stuff, plot-wise, going on in the book. In my opinion, Reaves/Bohnhoff could have easily turned this one book into another trilogy, taking the time to expand on some of the story lines within it, especially the Whiplash attempt to assassinate Emperor Palpatine, the capture of Thi Xon Yimmon, and Pavan's possession of Drath Ramage's mysterious holocron---all of which are fascinating story lines that Reaves/Bohnhoff could have devoted whole novels to. While adding to the extremely fast pacing of the novel, this overambitious plotting ultimately makes the book seem rushed, and I felt like I may have been missing a few details along the way.
Overall, though, "The Last Jedi" is another good read in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and I hope it is not the last we see of Jax Pavan.
September 24, 2020
Better than the Coruscant Nights trilogy in some ways, but still carrying a lot of plotholes. I initially had a positive reception to this. With the main cast pared down to only the characters we actually care about, this book was able to gain momentum in a way that Patterns of Force just didn’t. And, early on, the book doesn’t hold its punches by I was impressed. Yes, it’s sad for a character that I liked, but so often a great story is told by pulling the rug from under its protagonists, by identifying what twist would cause the most problems and then doing it and writing about the fallout. The addition of Maya Bohnhoff to the writing team here seemed to give Jax Pavan’s story the kick it really needed.
We’re off gallivanting all over the galaxy here, and this feels much more like a conventional Star Wars story from that point of view. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. It’s a bad thing because now it’s a conventional Star Wars story about a Jedi planet-hopping and duelling bad guys, when Jax Pavan’s story was supposed to be the premise of a Jedi-turned-private-investigator on Coruscant. It’s a good thing because, well, the Coruscant Nights trilogy may have been promoted as such, but it really failed to achieve what it set out to do – it failed as a detective noir, in my opinion – and so dragging it out of its niche and into the big wide galaxy sets the stage for drama spanning the stars, exciting things happening on different planets, and, well, scope.
Unfortunately, there are still problems and plotholes you could fly a Jedi starfighter through. I have no idea why, with two authors fact-checking this, but the stated timeline is still way off. We’re still being told that the Clone Wars and the battle of Drongar was twenty years ago – or thirteen, depending on what page you’re on – when it was actually just three years ago. Darth Ramage’s holocron includes research about bota, a miracle drug from Drongar which was why the Clone Wars came to that world in the first place (but it mutates and becomes useless in that story). Now, if the discovery of this miraculous wonder drug was what brought the Clone Wars to Drongar, riddle me this: why does a Sith Lord from goodness knows how long ago, could be centuries or millennia, even mention bota?
The thing is, these lapses in lore are facepalm moments, but the story doesn’t hinge on them and they’re forgivable. What isn’t so easily swept under the rug are the major failures in the story. Let’s talk about I-Five first. Oh my goodness, it’s obvious that Reaves must love this character to bring him back so much, but I have found him annoying in every appearance past Shadow Hunter. And it’s not just that he intrudes on Jax’s grief so offensively. It’s that the droid begins to become a Mary Sue. A droid who has not only achieved sapience, going past all expectations of his programming and becoming more than a machine; a person… but he’s Force sensitive. Somehow. Even though Jax and I-Five discuss how this should be impossible without the biological process of midichlorians. I feel like that conversation was specifically thrown in to nod to fans who hate midichlorians because they felt that the Force never really needed a scientific explanation because Star Wars is much more space fantasy than it is science fiction. And yes, I am one of those fans and I don’t care for midichlorians. But… come on… a droid who can wield the Force? The problem is this breaks the established rules of this universe. And I would be okay with that, if you want to write a story about upturning the status quo, I think exploring the personhood of droids is a great topic for a sci fi, even giving them Force powers… but that is a BIG story. You are literally overturning one of the biggest and most fundamental rules about that universe… so why does no one later, in the time of the original trilogy and afterwards, ever mention this? It’s a poor fit. You can’t put a story into this moment in the chronology of the series with a major storyline like that and have it work, because everyone in subsequent, already written books never mentions it again. Maybe the writers could pull it off if their book was slated for much further ahead in the chronology, or even hundreds or thousands of years ago where you could suppose the knowledge had time to get forgotten or lost. But putting it where it is, just after the end of the Clone Wars and a couple of decades before the original trilogy, with something that should upturn the entire galaxy, and having nothing ever happen or come of it… it feels like bad placement. It feels like a waste of a storyline.
Other things that didn’t feel right included a couple of instances of deus ex machina (yes, I know, the Force, but what I mean is the solution came out of nowhere and it came just too easily), and the trip to Dathomir. It was almost like the authors wanted readers to get excited about visiting an alien world that we all recognise, without considering whether or not it made sense to do so. When we first explore Dathomir in The Courtship of Princess Leia we're led to believe that no one has visited this world in a very long time, and certainly the inhabitants act like it, as if they’ve never heard of a Jedi Knight or a man wielding the Force. Yet, according to this book and the Quinlan Vos graphic novels, Jedi were dropping in every other day of the week. Hmmm. After he absorbs the lessons from the Sith holocron, Jax becomes powerful enough to manipulate time – I feel like I should say that in a grandiose voice, but anyway this is what I meant by deus ex machina – and at one point he reflects that he might be powerful enough to take on and defeat Darth Vader. I had flashbacks at that point to Garen Malek and The Force Unleashed. You know, Darth Vader’s secret apprentice who despite being only 18 years old defeats multiple Jedi Masters with ease, can move Star Destroyers with the Force, defeated both Darth Vader and the Emperor, oh, and set up the Rebel Alliance. You ever heard of him in any other books about the Rebel Alliance? Yup, me neither. We’re told in the first book of the Coruscant Nights series that Jax Pavan has a pretty average Force connection and he only graduated to Knighthood like, two months before Order 66. And… now we’re told he thinks he might be Darth Vader’s equal? All he needed was to fly over to Dathomir, spend about two days unlocking a Sith holocron, and now it’s no biggie? With all due apologies to the writers, I just don’t buy into this. The Whiplash resistance comes across as if it just exists to tie Jax in to the nascent Rebellion; but it’s weird when it has never been mentioned as part of the Rebel Alliance’s origins anywhere else, and I question whether Whiplash is actually needed in a series that was supposed to be a smaller-scale detective noir and especially set literally just after the rise of the Empire when perhaps we need it to be a time of overwhelming darkness in the wider story.
I suppose a mitigating point might be that this book was clearly intended to have further continuations to its story which might have elucidated or corrected niggles and wrapped things up in a rather more satisfying way, but this book was published in 2013 and then, well, the big wipeout came in 2014, so it exists as a loose strand. The story has its own conclusion which wraps up quite a lot, such as the fate of Whiplash on Coruscant and its leader, and our protagonists’ survival from here on out. But it also leaves a fair few questions up in the air. I get the impression that the ongoing rivalry between Jax and Vader would definitely be back, and that the authors would return to the big issue of I-Five, the Force sensitive droid – but never got a chance to.
Overall, I’d say this book does some good and interesting things – it raises the stakes, doesn’t pull its punches, abandons a flailing genre and setting in favour of a better one – but it’s brought down by some serious plotholes including not fitting very well with existing lore and stretching plausibility too thin. Ultimately, I recognise that it made a solid effort to improve, but for me it wasn’t enough for me to think of it as a good book.
4 out of 10
We’re off gallivanting all over the galaxy here, and this feels much more like a conventional Star Wars story from that point of view. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. It’s a bad thing because now it’s a conventional Star Wars story about a Jedi planet-hopping and duelling bad guys, when Jax Pavan’s story was supposed to be the premise of a Jedi-turned-private-investigator on Coruscant. It’s a good thing because, well, the Coruscant Nights trilogy may have been promoted as such, but it really failed to achieve what it set out to do – it failed as a detective noir, in my opinion – and so dragging it out of its niche and into the big wide galaxy sets the stage for drama spanning the stars, exciting things happening on different planets, and, well, scope.
Unfortunately, there are still problems and plotholes you could fly a Jedi starfighter through. I have no idea why, with two authors fact-checking this, but the stated timeline is still way off. We’re still being told that the Clone Wars and the battle of Drongar was twenty years ago – or thirteen, depending on what page you’re on – when it was actually just three years ago. Darth Ramage’s holocron includes research about bota, a miracle drug from Drongar which was why the Clone Wars came to that world in the first place (but it mutates and becomes useless in that story). Now, if the discovery of this miraculous wonder drug was what brought the Clone Wars to Drongar, riddle me this: why does a Sith Lord from goodness knows how long ago, could be centuries or millennia, even mention bota?
The thing is, these lapses in lore are facepalm moments, but the story doesn’t hinge on them and they’re forgivable. What isn’t so easily swept under the rug are the major failures in the story. Let’s talk about I-Five first. Oh my goodness, it’s obvious that Reaves must love this character to bring him back so much, but I have found him annoying in every appearance past Shadow Hunter. And it’s not just that he intrudes on Jax’s grief so offensively. It’s that the droid begins to become a Mary Sue. A droid who has not only achieved sapience, going past all expectations of his programming and becoming more than a machine; a person… but he’s Force sensitive. Somehow. Even though Jax and I-Five discuss how this should be impossible without the biological process of midichlorians. I feel like that conversation was specifically thrown in to nod to fans who hate midichlorians because they felt that the Force never really needed a scientific explanation because Star Wars is much more space fantasy than it is science fiction. And yes, I am one of those fans and I don’t care for midichlorians. But… come on… a droid who can wield the Force? The problem is this breaks the established rules of this universe. And I would be okay with that, if you want to write a story about upturning the status quo, I think exploring the personhood of droids is a great topic for a sci fi, even giving them Force powers… but that is a BIG story. You are literally overturning one of the biggest and most fundamental rules about that universe… so why does no one later, in the time of the original trilogy and afterwards, ever mention this? It’s a poor fit. You can’t put a story into this moment in the chronology of the series with a major storyline like that and have it work, because everyone in subsequent, already written books never mentions it again. Maybe the writers could pull it off if their book was slated for much further ahead in the chronology, or even hundreds or thousands of years ago where you could suppose the knowledge had time to get forgotten or lost. But putting it where it is, just after the end of the Clone Wars and a couple of decades before the original trilogy, with something that should upturn the entire galaxy, and having nothing ever happen or come of it… it feels like bad placement. It feels like a waste of a storyline.
Other things that didn’t feel right included a couple of instances of deus ex machina (yes, I know, the Force, but what I mean is the solution came out of nowhere and it came just too easily), and the trip to Dathomir. It was almost like the authors wanted readers to get excited about visiting an alien world that we all recognise, without considering whether or not it made sense to do so. When we first explore Dathomir in The Courtship of Princess Leia we're led to believe that no one has visited this world in a very long time, and certainly the inhabitants act like it, as if they’ve never heard of a Jedi Knight or a man wielding the Force. Yet, according to this book and the Quinlan Vos graphic novels, Jedi were dropping in every other day of the week. Hmmm. After he absorbs the lessons from the Sith holocron, Jax becomes powerful enough to manipulate time – I feel like I should say that in a grandiose voice, but anyway this is what I meant by deus ex machina – and at one point he reflects that he might be powerful enough to take on and defeat Darth Vader. I had flashbacks at that point to Garen Malek and The Force Unleashed. You know, Darth Vader’s secret apprentice who despite being only 18 years old defeats multiple Jedi Masters with ease, can move Star Destroyers with the Force, defeated both Darth Vader and the Emperor, oh, and set up the Rebel Alliance. You ever heard of him in any other books about the Rebel Alliance? Yup, me neither. We’re told in the first book of the Coruscant Nights series that Jax Pavan has a pretty average Force connection and he only graduated to Knighthood like, two months before Order 66. And… now we’re told he thinks he might be Darth Vader’s equal? All he needed was to fly over to Dathomir, spend about two days unlocking a Sith holocron, and now it’s no biggie? With all due apologies to the writers, I just don’t buy into this. The Whiplash resistance comes across as if it just exists to tie Jax in to the nascent Rebellion; but it’s weird when it has never been mentioned as part of the Rebel Alliance’s origins anywhere else, and I question whether Whiplash is actually needed in a series that was supposed to be a smaller-scale detective noir and especially set literally just after the rise of the Empire when perhaps we need it to be a time of overwhelming darkness in the wider story.
I suppose a mitigating point might be that this book was clearly intended to have further continuations to its story which might have elucidated or corrected niggles and wrapped things up in a rather more satisfying way, but this book was published in 2013 and then, well, the big wipeout came in 2014, so it exists as a loose strand. The story has its own conclusion which wraps up quite a lot, such as the fate of Whiplash on Coruscant and its leader, and our protagonists’ survival from here on out. But it also leaves a fair few questions up in the air. I get the impression that the ongoing rivalry between Jax and Vader would definitely be back, and that the authors would return to the big issue of I-Five, the Force sensitive droid – but never got a chance to.
Overall, I’d say this book does some good and interesting things – it raises the stakes, doesn’t pull its punches, abandons a flailing genre and setting in favour of a better one – but it’s brought down by some serious plotholes including not fitting very well with existing lore and stretching plausibility too thin. Ultimately, I recognise that it made a solid effort to improve, but for me it wasn’t enough for me to think of it as a good book.
4 out of 10
June 14, 2023
A nice conclusion to the series by Michael Reaves! I do think the ending was just a wee bit undercooked, but I enjoyed this read. Michael Reaves does a wonderful job world building, just like he did with Batman The Animated Series. Lots of cool concepts to explore in this novel, and the only Last Jedi I care to tango with as a Star Wars fan.
I noticed some cool details that have found their way in Jedi Survivor (Star Wars video game) that possibly(?) could've come from this book, which was very awesome, but I may be making those connections myself. However, I think others may agree if they know where to look! Would recommend this to anyone interested in Star Wars, Order 66, The Prequels, and/or Darth Vader hunting down Jedi.
I noticed some cool details that have found their way in Jedi Survivor (Star Wars video game) that possibly(?) could've come from this book, which was very awesome, but I may be making those connections myself. However, I think others may agree if they know where to look! Would recommend this to anyone interested in Star Wars, Order 66, The Prequels, and/or Darth Vader hunting down Jedi.
January 11, 2025
Star Wars: Legends: Coruscant Nights IV 04 The Last Jedi: Star Wars Legends by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Michael Reaves
adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense
Fast-paced
Plot or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
4.25 Stars
This was my favourite story/book within the Coruscant Nights series...thought this wasn't actually within that series.
Loved the way the story revealed within itself.
Jax Pavan is a really good character, beside the idea of being a Gray Paladin (which I'm okay with), but he's trying to do the best he can...with what he's been given.
Darth Vader is uniquely incredible, and he did a good job with him, though Jax possibly shouldn't gotten owned, but I'm okay with how it worked out.
I-Five is a great character, too. What he's become...is interesting, and I need to think more about this, but I also want to see this character again.
Loved seeing Mandalore, and all the characters...that came with this arc.
Looking forward to reading The Last of the Jedi by Jude Watson.
adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense
Fast-paced
Plot or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters are a main focus? Yes
4.25 Stars
This was my favourite story/book within the Coruscant Nights series...thought this wasn't actually within that series.
Loved the way the story revealed within itself.
Jax Pavan is a really good character, beside the idea of being a Gray Paladin (which I'm okay with), but he's trying to do the best he can...with what he's been given.
Darth Vader is uniquely incredible, and he did a good job with him, though Jax possibly shouldn't gotten owned, but I'm okay with how it worked out.
I-Five is a great character, too. What he's become...is interesting, and I need to think more about this, but I also want to see this character again.
Loved seeing Mandalore, and all the characters...that came with this arc.
Looking forward to reading The Last of the Jedi by Jude Watson.
August 13, 2025
This book does an excellent job of continuing the story from the Coruscant Nights trilogy. In fact, I would say it is so intrinsically tied to that novel that I'd even say this should be considered Book 4 of the Coruscant Nights Quartet instead of Trilogy.
This book takes a turn in the first 50 pages that sets the tone for this book, and it sets all of our characters on great paths. Jax in particular has an excellent revenge plotline that takes him to some very interesting locales and peoples.
Den Dhur and I-5 were at their absolute best in this book. Not only did they have a ton of great humor and scenes, but they also have some terrific storytelling here.
I also really enjoyed reading about Pol Haus, and felt that he maybe had his best story in the entire series.
The ending technically left the door open for more, but this serves as a very good ending point for the series. I'll give it an 8.5 out of 10! Excellent work Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
This book takes a turn in the first 50 pages that sets the tone for this book, and it sets all of our characters on great paths. Jax in particular has an excellent revenge plotline that takes him to some very interesting locales and peoples.
Den Dhur and I-5 were at their absolute best in this book. Not only did they have a ton of great humor and scenes, but they also have some terrific storytelling here.
I also really enjoyed reading about Pol Haus, and felt that he maybe had his best story in the entire series.
The ending technically left the door open for more, but this serves as a very good ending point for the series. I'll give it an 8.5 out of 10! Excellent work Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
September 6, 2014
At times this book wanders about a good deal, and for a while I wondered if it was going to be as aimless and inexact as some of the Clone Trooper series books turned out to be. However, this book turned out to be a worthy addition to the Star Wars books with a climactic ending that really kept me at the edge of my seat, eagerly reading each page. Since the main character, Jax Pavan, is not in Episode IV: A New Hope, this sets the reader up for believing, throughout this book, in his demise; however, the ending of this book, in my opinion, leaves "The Last Jedi" wide open for a sequel!
October 5, 2017
Really enjoyed this - a well thought out and executed novel in the Legends continuity.
Jax was appropriately heroic in the titular role, and Vader was a suitably threatening figure throughout.
The only thing that diminishes its score from a full five stars is the lack of humour - it was a little dour, and could have used a bit more of Den to lighten the tone a bit.
Reading this, I was struck by how much Jax and Laranth resemble Kanan and Hera from Rebels. I might have to go back and read the Coruscant Nights trilogy to see if I get the same vibe from those novels as well.
Jax was appropriately heroic in the titular role, and Vader was a suitably threatening figure throughout.
The only thing that diminishes its score from a full five stars is the lack of humour - it was a little dour, and could have used a bit more of Den to lighten the tone a bit.
Reading this, I was struck by how much Jax and Laranth resemble Kanan and Hera from Rebels. I might have to go back and read the Coruscant Nights trilogy to see if I get the same vibe from those novels as well.
June 21, 2025
7.5/10
September 21, 2019
This book had some interesting moments, but basically, in my opinion, it was one long, drawn out, dull rescue mission. Jax was transporting the leader of his Rebel group to a safe place, when Vader ambushes his ship. Fight ensues, things happen (don't want to give away too much) and Vader makes off with the leader. Jax then spent the next 400 or so pages trying to get him back. The next 400 slow, tedious, unnecessary, repetitive pages, where everyone else in the Rebel group spends all their time telling Jax not to rescue their leader. This book had a few interesting moments, like the detour to Dathomir, but mostly it was dull waiting. It would have been better as a shorter more fast paced story.
May 23, 2021
Stars: 2
Recommend: Only if you really like the Coruscant Nights trilogy.
Re-read? No.
This book was a little more entertaining than the trilogy by Reaves that preceded it, but it is still incredibly flawed. I think Reaves is a very lazy and sloppy author, and you don't have to be a huge Star Wars freak to recognize it. He still doesn't understand where in the timeline his stories fit, since he is regularly off by a decade or two. It would be like if I were writing a novel set during WWII, and I regularly said things like, "The year was 1922, and the world was in the midst of the second world war." You would be forgiven for thinking the author was a complete moron for not looking up what year WWII began. This has been a problem through many of Reaves' books. Perhaps more unforgivable, he isn't even consistent in what happens in books he wrote himself.
The absolute worst part of Reaves' writing is how much he relies on plot convenience. If a character needs something, someone will give it to them for no reason. If they are in a tough spot, they'll find some substance that just so happens to either be exactly what they need, or it is so powerful that it is the most useful substance in the galaxy.
Like a number of Reaves' previous books (Coruscant Nights in particular), way too much of the plot is tied up in plans that go nowhere.
Pretty much every main character became less interesting in the book to me.
I thought we would finally get a really good moment from Reaves when .
Other problems:
- I've watched/read most things that are Star Wars, and I can't think of anywhere else that made a holocron seem like a rubic cube that a random person can use to access information like Reaves claims. It's always been required to have the force to use a holocron.
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Stupid lines like this:
Another case of Reaves not even remembering what he wrote in previous books. In the first book on Coruscant Nights, .
Recommend: Only if you really like the Coruscant Nights trilogy.
Re-read? No.
This book was a little more entertaining than the trilogy by Reaves that preceded it, but it is still incredibly flawed. I think Reaves is a very lazy and sloppy author, and you don't have to be a huge Star Wars freak to recognize it. He still doesn't understand where in the timeline his stories fit, since he is regularly off by a decade or two. It would be like if I were writing a novel set during WWII, and I regularly said things like, "The year was 1922, and the world was in the midst of the second world war." You would be forgiven for thinking the author was a complete moron for not looking up what year WWII began. This has been a problem through many of Reaves' books. Perhaps more unforgivable, he isn't even consistent in what happens in books he wrote himself.
The absolute worst part of Reaves' writing is how much he relies on plot convenience. If a character needs something, someone will give it to them for no reason. If they are in a tough spot, they'll find some substance that just so happens to either be exactly what they need, or it is so powerful that it is the most useful substance in the galaxy.
Like a number of Reaves' previous books (Coruscant Nights in particular), way too much of the plot is tied up in plans that go nowhere.
Pretty much every main character became less interesting in the book to me.
I thought we would finally get a really good moment from Reaves when .
Other problems:
- I've watched/read most things that are Star Wars, and I can't think of anywhere else that made a holocron seem like a rubic cube that a random person can use to access information like Reaves claims. It's always been required to have the force to use a holocron.
-
Stupid lines like this:
Another case of Reaves not even remembering what he wrote in previous books. In the first book on Coruscant Nights, .
March 23, 2020
It's definitely not a book to come into unless you're familiar with the Lucasverse, and with much of what happens in the Legends novels in general...but armed with that, you can slip into the story pretty easily. That said, there's almost too much story here -- too many characters and plots fighting for attention. The one that deserves the most attention -- last Jedi Jax and his conflict with Darth Vader -- really merited a novel entirely on his own, without distraction...and there are many distractions here. There's also a bit too much moping that takes up more pages than I felt were necessary. In spit of all that, when the novel does focus on Jax and Vader, it's gripping, exciting and fantastic. I just wish I could have read a more stripped-down version of this novel.
August 6, 2020
Not a novelisation of the movie, but a continuation of the not-very-good Coruscant Nights series that was released just prior to Disney acquiring Lucasfilm.
This is a surprisingly fun read. I feel that if Reaves knew this was going to be his last Star Wars novel before the continuity got wiped, he may have given the more definitive ending that he seemed to be building to before seeming to change his mind at the last minute. It's not the perfect Star Wars book by any stretch, but it is definitely much better than I was expecting.
This is a surprisingly fun read. I feel that if Reaves knew this was going to be his last Star Wars novel before the continuity got wiped, he may have given the more definitive ending that he seemed to be building to before seeming to change his mind at the last minute. It's not the perfect Star Wars book by any stretch, but it is definitely much better than I was expecting.
January 17, 2025
What a stupid load of nothing!
April 9, 2014
A mixed bag, as usual. I don't know if it's Bohnhoff's contributions (which weren't so helpful in Shadow Games) or Reaves' progression as an author or just the point in the story we've reached, but Last Jedi finally feels like Jax Pavan's story is hitting its stride. It begins to deliver on some of the promise of the Dark Times setting, as Jax is hit with stress and suspicion, tragedy and guilt, and is forced to make some difficult choices that compromise his friendships and his integrity. The storyline of the Whiplash also brings up some interesting difficulties inherent in the formation of a Rebel Alliance founded on varying motives and philosophies, the problems of communication and decision making that plague decentralized and compartmentalized undergrounds.
But while the character arcs are just finally getting in gear, the rest of the story is starting to feel a bit over used. It's filled with Reaves' pet characters and objects, and they sort of get old. This is especially true of Jax's power totems, the miisai tree, the pyronium, and the Sith Holocron, which are the routes to temptation Jax indulges in order to win the story. Xizor and Black Sun offer the other dangerous temptation. Did anyone else find it odd that Xizor spent this whole story standing behind a curtain in a bar on Mandalore?
The Sith Holocron especially is far too easy. Once Jax figures out how to open it, it pours knowledge into his head that grants him all of these skills immediately. Then the Nightsisters go into his brain and remove all the bad stuff once he doesn’t need the powers any more. There's never a moment when we get the impression Jax might actually indulge the Holocron and turn to the Dark Side; he's quite capable of using the knowledge as a tool without falling. This really doesn't make sense considering the Jedi don't open these things to investigate them in peacetime in the balanced, low-stakes confines of the Jedi Temple. Jax is, due to the Dark Times setting, far more emotionally compromised, and it should be a pretty serious struggle for him to be able to use this Holocron without becoming an evil monster.
The way Reaves writes the Force in general gets under my skin. It's like a spiritual radar system: people have Force signatures, which they can conceal with “cloaking devices” and focused beams called “tunneling” and by hiding behind a bonsai tree (sorry, miisai). Jax creates Force projected illusions, which I guess I'm fine with, but he describes them as programmed animations that occur on a timer, etc. And what's the deal with that time-shifting nonsense?
Jax's relationship with Vader was a pretty thin construct to begin with (they seem to have sparred once and Vader inexplicably gave Jax the pyronium) and it's stretched too far here. The Inquisitors are meant to be the alternate villains, but they're still as boring as ever. They act as Vader's minions, and Jax trips them up as easily as he would Stormtroopers or any other mook.
The settings reference Clone Wars a bit much for my taste—Mandalore and Dathomir are major planets—but I suppose none of that was too bad. What really made me role my eyes was when Reaves finally bit the bullet and elevated I5 from sentient body-changing infallible droid soldier friend to full on force-sensitive. Jax is a bit of a Gary Stu, but I5 is the one Reaves really loves.
But while the character arcs are just finally getting in gear, the rest of the story is starting to feel a bit over used. It's filled with Reaves' pet characters and objects, and they sort of get old. This is especially true of Jax's power totems, the miisai tree, the pyronium, and the Sith Holocron, which are the routes to temptation Jax indulges in order to win the story. Xizor and Black Sun offer the other dangerous temptation. Did anyone else find it odd that Xizor spent this whole story standing behind a curtain in a bar on Mandalore?
The Sith Holocron especially is far too easy. Once Jax figures out how to open it, it pours knowledge into his head that grants him all of these skills immediately. Then the Nightsisters go into his brain and remove all the bad stuff once he doesn’t need the powers any more. There's never a moment when we get the impression Jax might actually indulge the Holocron and turn to the Dark Side; he's quite capable of using the knowledge as a tool without falling. This really doesn't make sense considering the Jedi don't open these things to investigate them in peacetime in the balanced, low-stakes confines of the Jedi Temple. Jax is, due to the Dark Times setting, far more emotionally compromised, and it should be a pretty serious struggle for him to be able to use this Holocron without becoming an evil monster.
The way Reaves writes the Force in general gets under my skin. It's like a spiritual radar system: people have Force signatures, which they can conceal with “cloaking devices” and focused beams called “tunneling” and by hiding behind a bonsai tree (sorry, miisai). Jax creates Force projected illusions, which I guess I'm fine with, but he describes them as programmed animations that occur on a timer, etc. And what's the deal with that time-shifting nonsense?
Jax's relationship with Vader was a pretty thin construct to begin with (they seem to have sparred once and Vader inexplicably gave Jax the pyronium) and it's stretched too far here. The Inquisitors are meant to be the alternate villains, but they're still as boring as ever. They act as Vader's minions, and Jax trips them up as easily as he would Stormtroopers or any other mook.
The settings reference Clone Wars a bit much for my taste—Mandalore and Dathomir are major planets—but I suppose none of that was too bad. What really made me role my eyes was when Reaves finally bit the bullet and elevated I5 from sentient body-changing infallible droid soldier friend to full on force-sensitive. Jax is a bit of a Gary Stu, but I5 is the one Reaves really loves.
February 16, 2013
The spectacular conclusion of all that was past, now taking you into a new era for the STAR WARS revolution & the changed world!!
Having followed the journey from the very beginning when one looked at the world through the eyes of Anakin Skywalker and his master Obi Wan Kenobi, and learning the ways of the Jedi, this is now a turning point within the STAR WARS history. All that you have encountered so far in this remarkable, original series is soon to be changed as a great catalyst erupts thus shaping all that once was as the last Jedi finally falls to Darth Vader’s wrath.
We continue the saga where the Emperor’s ruthless order Route 66 has all but destroyed the remaining Jedi and those few who still remain & who can wield the FORCE for good have been now driven into exile or hiding. Fearing for their lives there is nothing left for the Jedi and even the FORCE cannot help them now, as even Yoda knows the power of the Emperor and Darth Vader who are such an almighty force that has hatred running through their veins; nothing can stop them. But, Jax Pavan has been steadily striking blows against the empire as a lone guerrilla fighter and valued partner of Whiplash (a secret Coruscant-based resistance group) The Coruscant is known as the new Republic or Galactic Empire. Now Jax takes on his most critical mission; to transport a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the FORCE . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen, which includes him!!!
The Last Jedi: Knight of Reckoning is so dramatic, full of electric tension and suspense that will have you glued to the pages for hours. This spectacular, classic and legendary series that is STAR WARS has taken over our own world and which is as relevant & as much loved today as it was many years ago. I grew up with the books from a child when I first began to read, and always on my Christmas list was a light saber (I know, I am such a tomboy!), but STAR WARS really did open my imagination to the wonders of the science-fiction genre and how inspired it could be that brings ones dreams to life. I cannot describe in words how spectacular the series is due to the inspired and totally remarkable plot, which underpins each book as you continue the story following your favorite characters as they battle throughout different galaxies. The distinctive, individualistic and memorable characters pull the story along and are some of the well-recognized figures in literature and fiction. From Chewbacca, R2 and R4 to Obi Wan Kenobi to the Emperor, Darth Vader, Yoda, Anakin and Luke Skywalker, Jabba the Hutt ect. I could continue but I don’t want to go into too much detail about those books connected to the Old Republic.
A fantastic, gripping read that would delight all fans of this genre & who love Star Wars as it embodies all that one delights in within Sci-fi fiction such as epic battle scenes, spaceships and dark forces; it really is a real treat! Out of all the series this book has to be the most poignant and significant, for it marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new dawn as a new power rises. It is just incredible and I would highly recommend it as it is so powerfully moving, dramatic and which sends shivers down your spine!!
Having followed the journey from the very beginning when one looked at the world through the eyes of Anakin Skywalker and his master Obi Wan Kenobi, and learning the ways of the Jedi, this is now a turning point within the STAR WARS history. All that you have encountered so far in this remarkable, original series is soon to be changed as a great catalyst erupts thus shaping all that once was as the last Jedi finally falls to Darth Vader’s wrath.
We continue the saga where the Emperor’s ruthless order Route 66 has all but destroyed the remaining Jedi and those few who still remain & who can wield the FORCE for good have been now driven into exile or hiding. Fearing for their lives there is nothing left for the Jedi and even the FORCE cannot help them now, as even Yoda knows the power of the Emperor and Darth Vader who are such an almighty force that has hatred running through their veins; nothing can stop them. But, Jax Pavan has been steadily striking blows against the empire as a lone guerrilla fighter and valued partner of Whiplash (a secret Coruscant-based resistance group) The Coruscant is known as the new Republic or Galactic Empire. Now Jax takes on his most critical mission; to transport a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the FORCE . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen, which includes him!!!
The Last Jedi: Knight of Reckoning is so dramatic, full of electric tension and suspense that will have you glued to the pages for hours. This spectacular, classic and legendary series that is STAR WARS has taken over our own world and which is as relevant & as much loved today as it was many years ago. I grew up with the books from a child when I first began to read, and always on my Christmas list was a light saber (I know, I am such a tomboy!), but STAR WARS really did open my imagination to the wonders of the science-fiction genre and how inspired it could be that brings ones dreams to life. I cannot describe in words how spectacular the series is due to the inspired and totally remarkable plot, which underpins each book as you continue the story following your favorite characters as they battle throughout different galaxies. The distinctive, individualistic and memorable characters pull the story along and are some of the well-recognized figures in literature and fiction. From Chewbacca, R2 and R4 to Obi Wan Kenobi to the Emperor, Darth Vader, Yoda, Anakin and Luke Skywalker, Jabba the Hutt ect. I could continue but I don’t want to go into too much detail about those books connected to the Old Republic.
A fantastic, gripping read that would delight all fans of this genre & who love Star Wars as it embodies all that one delights in within Sci-fi fiction such as epic battle scenes, spaceships and dark forces; it really is a real treat! Out of all the series this book has to be the most poignant and significant, for it marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new dawn as a new power rises. It is just incredible and I would highly recommend it as it is so powerfully moving, dramatic and which sends shivers down your spine!!
December 26, 2020
First Star Wars book I’ve ever dumped. This book is over 450 pages long. No big deal, except this book could have been much shorter. The plots were boring and bland and I didn’t care about any of the characters. I didn’t really like the other books in the series but at least I could get through them without being bored to tears.
The plot of trying to kill the emperor was used in the last book and was renewed for this one. Why I ask would you reuse that plot? Hard to care when you know the emperor survives. And the other major plot point was to find the Cerean Whiplash leader who Darth Vader captured. Even Darth couldn’t make me enjoy this book. Glad I dumped it after 300 pages. I wish I would have done so sooner.
Skip this book and the entire Coruscant Nights Series. There is a reason why it is one of the lesser known EU books.
The plot of trying to kill the emperor was used in the last book and was renewed for this one. Why I ask would you reuse that plot? Hard to care when you know the emperor survives. And the other major plot point was to find the Cerean Whiplash leader who Darth Vader captured. Even Darth couldn’t make me enjoy this book. Glad I dumped it after 300 pages. I wish I would have done so sooner.
Skip this book and the entire Coruscant Nights Series. There is a reason why it is one of the lesser known EU books.
March 14, 2013
I hate giving this book only two stars because I love Reaves as a Star Wars author, but there were some major problems with continuity errors that really bugged me. Your mileage may vary as to whether that lessens your interest in this one.
Another cause for the low stars is that the narrative feels a bit "lost" for lack of a better term. Lots of wild goose chases and plots that go nowhere (either in terms of carrying the story forward *or* character development).
Still, it is an enjoyable read - especially if you are a fan of the characters from earlier Reaves novels.
Another cause for the low stars is that the narrative feels a bit "lost" for lack of a better term. Lots of wild goose chases and plots that go nowhere (either in terms of carrying the story forward *or* character development).
Still, it is an enjoyable read - especially if you are a fan of the characters from earlier Reaves novels.
January 14, 2015
The book started out relatively slowly, or possibly only seemed to due to the amount of time since I finished the previous book in the series. However, it picked up and was an enjoyable read. I look forward to the next one, if there is one.
March 14, 2019
Star Wars Legends Project #195
Background: The Last Jedi was written by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. It was published in February 2013. Reaves has written or co-written several Star Wars novels, including the Coruscant Nights trilogy (this is a sequel to those). Bohnhoff has co-written three novels with Reaves. This is the second. Apparently she co-wrote the last Coruscant Nights book with him, but went uncredited.
The Last Jedi is set some months after Patterns of Force, about a year after Order 66 (17 years before the battle of Yavin). The main characters are Jax Pavan, I-5, and Den Dhur. Darth Vader plays a significant role, as do several surviving characters from the Coruscant Nights trilogy. The novel takes place on Coruscant, Toprawa, Mandalore, Dathomir, and various points in outer space.
Summary: Things have gotten too hot on Coruscant for Thi Xon Yimmon, the leader of the Whiplash resistance movement, so sort-of-ex-Jedi Jax Pavan and the rest of his rebel cell are tasked with moving him to a new base on Dantooine. But when the mission ends in catastrophe, Jax and the others are left reeling, with the nascent rebellion on the brink of extinction. Every choice feels like the wrong choice, and the only alternative that's worse is no choice at all.
Review: I have no insight into the division of labor between Reaves and Bohnhoff, and I wasn't even aware that she cowrote Patterns of Force until just now, so I wasn't thinking about that as I read it. If I had to guess at Bohnhoff's influence, I'd say she improves the style over Reaves writing alone (fewer contemporary references dressed up in Star-Wars-ese), but the narrative lacks drive. There was a lot of pointless wheel-spinning in Patterns of Force compared to the first 2 novels in the trilogy, and that effect is even more apparent here since this novel is over 100 pages longer than the longest of the Coruscant Nights books.
It's definitely longer than it needs to be, though not to the extent you might expect. There is a lot going on in this story, and now that the characters are finally allowed to be somewhere other than Coruscant there's a lot more for them to do. It's also one of the few novels from this era that incorporates significant tie-ins with The Clone Wars animated series, particularly in its depictions of Mandalore and Dathomir. Some of this is good stuff, some less so, but I don't want to get too deep into spoiler territory.
I find that I have surprisingly little to say about this overall, actually. It begins by significantly raising the stakes from where they were in the trilogy, and it's a much more satisfying conclusion to the storyline of these characters than the last book was. I liked it better than any of the Coruscant Nights books. On the other hand, it was still a bit of a chore to get through, and while it introduced some interesting new characters, I didn't feel like I got to know them as well as I should have, almost like they were being held at arm's length. This was particularly true of Sacha Swiftbird. I-5's storyline in this was also weird, almost a transplant from a Star Trek story. And I'm not sure I bought the tension between Jax and the others. At the very least it wasn't well-explained.
In the end, although there's plenty to like here, it's spread too thin across too high of a page count, and I'm definitely more than ready to move on from here. It feels like Star Wars writers in this era don't know what kinds of stories to tell, particularly when they involve Jedi. That feels like a crucial mistake when dealing with the Dark Times (outside of, obviously, the excellent Dark Times series of comics). Writers keep wanting to tell stories of a nascent rebellion, but we know from the opening crawl of Star Wars that any real victory of a rebellion movement is literally almost two decades away. They're missing huge opportunities to tell stories that aren't just Jedi vs. Sith or Rebellion vs. Empire. I want to see stories about morally grey anti-heroes who operate in the underworld as the Empire tightens its grip on power. I want to see stories about ordinary people (as in non-Force users) dealing with day-to-day survival after this massive shift in galactic government. Most of all, I don't want stories whose endings I already know because they're about rebellions that are destined to fail and missions that can't possibly succeed. Your heroes want to assassinate the Emperor or try to take out Darth Vader? I already know how that ends! We all do! Find a better plot! Surprise me!
B-
Background: The Last Jedi was written by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. It was published in February 2013. Reaves has written or co-written several Star Wars novels, including the Coruscant Nights trilogy (this is a sequel to those). Bohnhoff has co-written three novels with Reaves. This is the second. Apparently she co-wrote the last Coruscant Nights book with him, but went uncredited.
The Last Jedi is set some months after Patterns of Force, about a year after Order 66 (17 years before the battle of Yavin). The main characters are Jax Pavan, I-5, and Den Dhur. Darth Vader plays a significant role, as do several surviving characters from the Coruscant Nights trilogy. The novel takes place on Coruscant, Toprawa, Mandalore, Dathomir, and various points in outer space.
Summary: Things have gotten too hot on Coruscant for Thi Xon Yimmon, the leader of the Whiplash resistance movement, so sort-of-ex-Jedi Jax Pavan and the rest of his rebel cell are tasked with moving him to a new base on Dantooine. But when the mission ends in catastrophe, Jax and the others are left reeling, with the nascent rebellion on the brink of extinction. Every choice feels like the wrong choice, and the only alternative that's worse is no choice at all.
Review: I have no insight into the division of labor between Reaves and Bohnhoff, and I wasn't even aware that she cowrote Patterns of Force until just now, so I wasn't thinking about that as I read it. If I had to guess at Bohnhoff's influence, I'd say she improves the style over Reaves writing alone (fewer contemporary references dressed up in Star-Wars-ese), but the narrative lacks drive. There was a lot of pointless wheel-spinning in Patterns of Force compared to the first 2 novels in the trilogy, and that effect is even more apparent here since this novel is over 100 pages longer than the longest of the Coruscant Nights books.
It's definitely longer than it needs to be, though not to the extent you might expect. There is a lot going on in this story, and now that the characters are finally allowed to be somewhere other than Coruscant there's a lot more for them to do. It's also one of the few novels from this era that incorporates significant tie-ins with The Clone Wars animated series, particularly in its depictions of Mandalore and Dathomir. Some of this is good stuff, some less so, but I don't want to get too deep into spoiler territory.
I find that I have surprisingly little to say about this overall, actually. It begins by significantly raising the stakes from where they were in the trilogy, and it's a much more satisfying conclusion to the storyline of these characters than the last book was. I liked it better than any of the Coruscant Nights books. On the other hand, it was still a bit of a chore to get through, and while it introduced some interesting new characters, I didn't feel like I got to know them as well as I should have, almost like they were being held at arm's length. This was particularly true of Sacha Swiftbird. I-5's storyline in this was also weird, almost a transplant from a Star Trek story. And I'm not sure I bought the tension between Jax and the others. At the very least it wasn't well-explained.
In the end, although there's plenty to like here, it's spread too thin across too high of a page count, and I'm definitely more than ready to move on from here. It feels like Star Wars writers in this era don't know what kinds of stories to tell, particularly when they involve Jedi. That feels like a crucial mistake when dealing with the Dark Times (outside of, obviously, the excellent Dark Times series of comics). Writers keep wanting to tell stories of a nascent rebellion, but we know from the opening crawl of Star Wars that any real victory of a rebellion movement is literally almost two decades away. They're missing huge opportunities to tell stories that aren't just Jedi vs. Sith or Rebellion vs. Empire. I want to see stories about morally grey anti-heroes who operate in the underworld as the Empire tightens its grip on power. I want to see stories about ordinary people (as in non-Force users) dealing with day-to-day survival after this massive shift in galactic government. Most of all, I don't want stories whose endings I already know because they're about rebellions that are destined to fail and missions that can't possibly succeed. Your heroes want to assassinate the Emperor or try to take out Darth Vader? I already know how that ends! We all do! Find a better plot! Surprise me!
B-
December 30, 2024
Not to be confused with the movie of the same name (which came later), The Last Jedi serves as a sequel to the Coruscant Nights trilogy and feels as though it was perhaps even meant to close the story lines of Jax Pavan and I-5, the semi-sentient droid. It suffers from some of the same issues as those previous books - too many characters, too much plot, and murky stakes.
The book begins with Jax Pavan and his posse transporting a major Whiplash resistance figure, Thi Xon Yimmon, from Coruscant to Dantooine, where he will presumably be safe. However, the Far Ranger is attacked en route and the Cerean leader is abducted. The remainder of the book details Pavan's attempts to find out where Yimmon is being held and rescue him. The story bounces from Toprawa, to Coruscant, to Mandalore, and finally to a space station hidden in an asteroid field. Darth Vader makes several appearances, a major character is killed off, and at least one piece of fundamental Star Wars lore is violated. I guess whiplash isn't just the name of an anti-Imperial movement on Coruscant.
I hate to complain too much about these books, as Reaves can spin a good yarn (Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is still a favorite of mine). Nonetheless, the character development continues to be lacking, and Pavan's daddy issues, as well as his grief, are not enough to keep the stakes up. Sure, if Yimmon's dual brains are compromised, important details about the underground on Coruscant might be revealed. But because this is all pre-Episode IV, the final outcomes never feel much in doubt for the reader, and so our investment in the characters (or lack thereof) becomes everything. Reaves, co-writing here with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, delivers some halfway decent action scenes, but they often stretch credulity and feel more appropriate to a comic book than to a space fantasy. The pages continued to turn, but my interest was lackluster at best.
This book serves as a good example of how the Legends novels declined over time. In their rush to put out good product without violating the timelines and lore of the films, Del Rey ultimately missed the mark on both goals. I don't know if the fault is with the editors, or if they needed more talented writers, but books like The Last Jedi began to feel like filler material in a long-running soap opera.
The book begins with Jax Pavan and his posse transporting a major Whiplash resistance figure, Thi Xon Yimmon, from Coruscant to Dantooine, where he will presumably be safe. However, the Far Ranger is attacked en route and the Cerean leader is abducted. The remainder of the book details Pavan's attempts to find out where Yimmon is being held and rescue him. The story bounces from Toprawa, to Coruscant, to Mandalore, and finally to a space station hidden in an asteroid field. Darth Vader makes several appearances, a major character is killed off, and at least one piece of fundamental Star Wars lore is violated. I guess whiplash isn't just the name of an anti-Imperial movement on Coruscant.
I hate to complain too much about these books, as Reaves can spin a good yarn (Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is still a favorite of mine). Nonetheless, the character development continues to be lacking, and Pavan's daddy issues, as well as his grief, are not enough to keep the stakes up. Sure, if Yimmon's dual brains are compromised, important details about the underground on Coruscant might be revealed. But because this is all pre-Episode IV, the final outcomes never feel much in doubt for the reader, and so our investment in the characters (or lack thereof) becomes everything. Reaves, co-writing here with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, delivers some halfway decent action scenes, but they often stretch credulity and feel more appropriate to a comic book than to a space fantasy. The pages continued to turn, but my interest was lackluster at best.
This book serves as a good example of how the Legends novels declined over time. In their rush to put out good product without violating the timelines and lore of the films, Del Rey ultimately missed the mark on both goals. I don't know if the fault is with the editors, or if they needed more talented writers, but books like The Last Jedi began to feel like filler material in a long-running soap opera.
December 21, 2020
First up, this is not the novelisation of that terrible Disney film that came out that mistakenly put ‘Star Wars’ on the title and stole the title of this book. Interestingly, Disney Luke’s Force projection in the film is a direct rip-off of the Force projection in this book. This is an actual Star Wars book based in the actual Star Wars universe. Now that’s out of the way, on to the review…
This is a follow-up book to the Coruscant Nights trilogy of books that follow Jedi Jax Pavan and the sentient droid I-Five that originally belonged to his father in Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. In this one, the Coruscant-based resistance known as Whiplash is feeling the pressure and it is decided to evacuate their leader off-world to a safer location. Unfortunately, Darth Vader is waiting and kidnaps the leader leaving Jax and his friends for dead. Now Jax must do what he can to mount a rescue.
I do very much enjoy the character of I-Five and this is his sixth appearance in the books. Jax is a lot more unbalanced in this one, dealing with loss and exploring a Sith holocron, which made him a much more interesting character. There was one scene in particular when he discovers that sentient blood is required to open it and a new acquaintance of his suddenly turns up and I really thought he might do something drastic.
The story itself is okay, if a little meandering. For all the urgency in mounting the rescue, there’s an awful lot of preamble and ‘side missions’ that must be done first. Interspersed amongst all this is the ongoing operations of Whiplash without their leader which, though compelling, ultimately don’t really amount to much.
There is no great battle or encounter but the rescue attempt at the end is pretty good. The story does get a little lost with the time manipulation sub-sub plot which felt a bit unnecessary.
Infinitely better than the ‘film’ of the same name.
This is a follow-up book to the Coruscant Nights trilogy of books that follow Jedi Jax Pavan and the sentient droid I-Five that originally belonged to his father in Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. In this one, the Coruscant-based resistance known as Whiplash is feeling the pressure and it is decided to evacuate their leader off-world to a safer location. Unfortunately, Darth Vader is waiting and kidnaps the leader leaving Jax and his friends for dead. Now Jax must do what he can to mount a rescue.
I do very much enjoy the character of I-Five and this is his sixth appearance in the books. Jax is a lot more unbalanced in this one, dealing with loss and exploring a Sith holocron, which made him a much more interesting character. There was one scene in particular when he discovers that sentient blood is required to open it and a new acquaintance of his suddenly turns up and I really thought he might do something drastic.
The story itself is okay, if a little meandering. For all the urgency in mounting the rescue, there’s an awful lot of preamble and ‘side missions’ that must be done first. Interspersed amongst all this is the ongoing operations of Whiplash without their leader which, though compelling, ultimately don’t really amount to much.
There is no great battle or encounter but the rescue attempt at the end is pretty good. The story does get a little lost with the time manipulation sub-sub plot which felt a bit unnecessary.
Infinitely better than the ‘film’ of the same name.
November 8, 2023
Jax Pavan's latest mission for Whiplash involves shuttling its leader from Coruscant to Dantooine. The Imperials are closing in on all rebellious activity and that's not the only problem Jax has: Darth Vader still wants the powerful item that Anakin gave to Jax for safe keeping, the pull of the Sith holocron is growing daily, and an ill-advised assassination plot is afoot. Will the last Jedi finally perish?
This is the conclusion I was looking for. Thank goodness. I am honestly in awe of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. Her co-writer, Micheal Reaves - who originally started Jax's journey - did not give her an easy task. The Coruscant Nights books had an interesting concept (Coruscant done noir style), but the execution was horrendous and amateurish. Somehow Bohnhoff took a turd and polished it into a diamond.
Okay, sure, there are plot threads that might have continued had Disney not swooped in. But I doubt that we were ever going to get a better end to Jax's arc than this. The more generous length allowed for a more generous story - and the action finally left Coruscant which, in hindsight, seemed to have been the issue that was holding the preceding trilogy back.
Heck, I still enjoyed the Coruscant stuff because I like Pol Haus. And the Dathomir section was particularly good. In fact, it's awesome. The Courtship of Princess Leia is fun but always felt like a clumsy fit in the Legends canon after the prequel movies arrived. This book fixes that... sort of.
I'll be honest. The Last Jedi has some issues (what Star Wars story with this title doesn't? HahaHAHha ahem). But I don't care. I loved it.
And apparently I'm shallow, because I appreciate the fact that Jax looks hot on this cover (as opposed to ordinary and constipated as he is on his previous covers lol).
This is the conclusion I was looking for. Thank goodness. I am honestly in awe of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. Her co-writer, Micheal Reaves - who originally started Jax's journey - did not give her an easy task. The Coruscant Nights books had an interesting concept (Coruscant done noir style), but the execution was horrendous and amateurish. Somehow Bohnhoff took a turd and polished it into a diamond.
Okay, sure, there are plot threads that might have continued had Disney not swooped in. But I doubt that we were ever going to get a better end to Jax's arc than this. The more generous length allowed for a more generous story - and the action finally left Coruscant which, in hindsight, seemed to have been the issue that was holding the preceding trilogy back.
Heck, I still enjoyed the Coruscant stuff because I like Pol Haus. And the Dathomir section was particularly good. In fact, it's awesome. The Courtship of Princess Leia is fun but always felt like a clumsy fit in the Legends canon after the prequel movies arrived. This book fixes that... sort of.
I'll be honest. The Last Jedi has some issues (what Star Wars story with this title doesn't? HahaHAHha ahem). But I don't care. I loved it.
And apparently I'm shallow, because I appreciate the fact that Jax looks hot on this cover (as opposed to ordinary and constipated as he is on his previous covers lol).
August 7, 2022
The Coruscant Nights books are the epitome of the expanded universe mediocrity: not as great as Timothy Zahn, not as terrible as Barbara Hambly. Despite Reaves' above-average use of the EU lore, his books are akin to Troy Denning's novels in terms of mediocrity and utter forgetability. Reaves consistently throws out character development and relationships in order to prioritize uninteresting, but fast-moving, plots. The reader gets SOME of Jax Pavan's emotional turmoil in this final book, however, it is rather easily resolved, and his emotions do not seem to affect his crew. In general, that is my biggest problem with the series. While the plots are uninteresting to me, I can see that they might hold some value for other readers. The lack of actual relationships between characters that have interacted and survived with each other over the course of FOUR BOOKS is the most irritating aspect of the series. A meaningless plot revolving around taking down the Emperor and Darth Vader (of which the outcome is obvious) would be far more compelling if there were more connections between the characters.
You're better off watching the Last Jedi movie.
You're better off watching the Last Jedi movie.
March 8, 2013
Read the Full Review: http://thefoundingfields.com/2013/03/....
A/N: This was initially intended to be part of a dual review with fellow reviewer Shadowhawk, which explains the slightly different (no introduction between the quote and the blurb) format.
“Another strong collaboration between Bonhoff and Reaves, but ultimately, The Last Jedi doesn’t quite get everything right.“ ~Bane of Kings, The Founding Fields
"The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire—as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group. Now he’s taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the Force . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen."
I don’t normally talk about cover arts when writing a review, but holy crap - The Last Jedi has a great one. It’s got an awesome cover of the main protagonist, Jax – standing in front of a menacing Darth Vader, who is one of my favourite villains ever. The moment that I saw that cover, I knew I had to request this book from NetGalley and my choice of requesting was further reinforced by my enjoyment of the other collaboration by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff - Shadow Games. As the last Star Wars book that I read was Darth Plageuis, I wanted to read something from the Jedi’s perspective and Reaves and Bonhoff did not disappoint, creating an enthralling tale set in the aftermath of Order 66, the betrayal of the Clones and the revelation of Palpatine as Darth Sidious in a move that changed the very foundations of the Republic to its core.
Apparently, The Last Jedi is the fourth book in the Coruscant Nights series, all written by Michael Reaves – but I had no problem reading this book as a standalone which is what it is billed as – for on the cover and blurb there is no references to the fact that this book is a tie in to that particular series. So if you’re looking for another Star Wars tale which puts the underdogs against an Evil Empire then look no further than The Last Jedi. Bonhoff and Reaves have experience of writing in the Universe and it’s a real joy to read their writing – whilst this is no Shakespeare, it doesn’t pretend to be. And neither does it need to be. If you want a fun, fast-paced, high-stakes read then look no further - The Last Jedi is your book. But it does suffer from a few key problems.
First of all, as is the case with Star Wars books featuring main characters such as Darth Vader, you know the character is not going to be killed off and therefore the book is rendered predictable. But what will happen to Jax? How close will he get? It’s almost like watching Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise film featuring an attempt on the life of Hitler by renegade German Army Officials, because you know they’re not going to succeed Whilst the threat to the good guys is there and the villain doesn’t have to be established, this is a flaw in the book and I really wish Reaves and Bonhoff had played with a different concept instead and created a more unpredictable outcome. But The Last Jedi, whilst its title may be misleading (we know that Obi-Wan is lurking in Tatooine around the time of this book), should not be dismissed because of its predictability.
Another thing that I didn’t really enjoy that much in The Last Jedi was the fact that Jax seemed a bit too similar to a Mary-Sue for my liking, although I would probably think less of this if I had read Coruscant Nights. Because he seems to make the connection between Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader a little too easily for my liking, even with the backstory that he was friends with Anakin at one point in their career as a Jedi. You’d thought that this would have been mentioned in the films if Jax was an important character in Anakin’s life like The Last Jedi makes him out to be, but Reaves and Bonhoff have created an addition to character’s story in an attempt to make the betrayal seem even more personal. It just didn’t work for me, but apart from that I found Jax’s character bearable as a whole even if he isn’t the most memorable one in the Star Wars Universe. The rest of the characters are even less memorable than Jax, I-Five being the only other that I can remember – as I feel that the book spends too much time taking the reader on a tour of different planets in a book that is clearly plot driven, to explore the characters more.
But this review is probably making me sound like I disliked the book. In fact, I actually enjoyed it – it was a Star Wars novel and I’ve never read a bad one yet (although my read count is few), and whenever I read a book set in this Universe I always feel like I’m having fun. The Last Jedi has some great action scenes, an awesome cover art and some very nice lightsaber battles indeed, and I believe that Reaves and Bonhoff have produced a strong, but flawed book here – hence why I am going to give it a balanced verdict of three stars.
VERDICT: 3/5
Action packed, well written, fun and page-turning, The Last Jedi is let down by its plot-driven storyline and a Mary-Sue lead character. The Last Jedi also boasts an awesome cover.
A/N: This was initially intended to be part of a dual review with fellow reviewer Shadowhawk, which explains the slightly different (no introduction between the quote and the blurb) format.
“Another strong collaboration between Bonhoff and Reaves, but ultimately, The Last Jedi doesn’t quite get everything right.“ ~Bane of Kings, The Founding Fields
"The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire—as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group. Now he’s taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the Force . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen."
I don’t normally talk about cover arts when writing a review, but holy crap - The Last Jedi has a great one. It’s got an awesome cover of the main protagonist, Jax – standing in front of a menacing Darth Vader, who is one of my favourite villains ever. The moment that I saw that cover, I knew I had to request this book from NetGalley and my choice of requesting was further reinforced by my enjoyment of the other collaboration by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff - Shadow Games. As the last Star Wars book that I read was Darth Plageuis, I wanted to read something from the Jedi’s perspective and Reaves and Bonhoff did not disappoint, creating an enthralling tale set in the aftermath of Order 66, the betrayal of the Clones and the revelation of Palpatine as Darth Sidious in a move that changed the very foundations of the Republic to its core.
Apparently, The Last Jedi is the fourth book in the Coruscant Nights series, all written by Michael Reaves – but I had no problem reading this book as a standalone which is what it is billed as – for on the cover and blurb there is no references to the fact that this book is a tie in to that particular series. So if you’re looking for another Star Wars tale which puts the underdogs against an Evil Empire then look no further than The Last Jedi. Bonhoff and Reaves have experience of writing in the Universe and it’s a real joy to read their writing – whilst this is no Shakespeare, it doesn’t pretend to be. And neither does it need to be. If you want a fun, fast-paced, high-stakes read then look no further - The Last Jedi is your book. But it does suffer from a few key problems.
First of all, as is the case with Star Wars books featuring main characters such as Darth Vader, you know the character is not going to be killed off and therefore the book is rendered predictable. But what will happen to Jax? How close will he get? It’s almost like watching Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise film featuring an attempt on the life of Hitler by renegade German Army Officials, because you know they’re not going to succeed Whilst the threat to the good guys is there and the villain doesn’t have to be established, this is a flaw in the book and I really wish Reaves and Bonhoff had played with a different concept instead and created a more unpredictable outcome. But The Last Jedi, whilst its title may be misleading (we know that Obi-Wan is lurking in Tatooine around the time of this book), should not be dismissed because of its predictability.
Another thing that I didn’t really enjoy that much in The Last Jedi was the fact that Jax seemed a bit too similar to a Mary-Sue for my liking, although I would probably think less of this if I had read Coruscant Nights. Because he seems to make the connection between Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader a little too easily for my liking, even with the backstory that he was friends with Anakin at one point in their career as a Jedi. You’d thought that this would have been mentioned in the films if Jax was an important character in Anakin’s life like The Last Jedi makes him out to be, but Reaves and Bonhoff have created an addition to character’s story in an attempt to make the betrayal seem even more personal. It just didn’t work for me, but apart from that I found Jax’s character bearable as a whole even if he isn’t the most memorable one in the Star Wars Universe. The rest of the characters are even less memorable than Jax, I-Five being the only other that I can remember – as I feel that the book spends too much time taking the reader on a tour of different planets in a book that is clearly plot driven, to explore the characters more.
But this review is probably making me sound like I disliked the book. In fact, I actually enjoyed it – it was a Star Wars novel and I’ve never read a bad one yet (although my read count is few), and whenever I read a book set in this Universe I always feel like I’m having fun. The Last Jedi has some great action scenes, an awesome cover art and some very nice lightsaber battles indeed, and I believe that Reaves and Bonhoff have produced a strong, but flawed book here – hence why I am going to give it a balanced verdict of three stars.
VERDICT: 3/5
Action packed, well written, fun and page-turning, The Last Jedi is let down by its plot-driven storyline and a Mary-Sue lead character. The Last Jedi also boasts an awesome cover.
August 7, 2018
This book wasn't terrible, per se—it was interesting enough, but some of the characters just fell flat to me. Granted, I know many of them were introduced in the Coruscant Nights series, which I have not read—but in my defense, this book is supposed to be a standalone anyway!
The protagonist is Jax Pavan, a Jedi who survived Order 66. He's gone head-to-head with Darth Vader before and lived to tell the tale, which tells you he's impressive, lucky, or some combination of the two. In this book, Darth Vader boards his ship and kidnaps a Resistance leader. Jax spends the rest of the book trying to rescue his friend.
If that sounds like a bit of a thin plot for a full-length novel—well, it kind of is. There are subplots and such with the other characters, but like I said, many of these characters fell flat to me.
One thing's for sure: Michael Reaves is a decent writer, but he's no Timothy Zahn. No one can write Star Wars like Zahn can.
The protagonist is Jax Pavan, a Jedi who survived Order 66. He's gone head-to-head with Darth Vader before and lived to tell the tale, which tells you he's impressive, lucky, or some combination of the two. In this book, Darth Vader boards his ship and kidnaps a Resistance leader. Jax spends the rest of the book trying to rescue his friend.
If that sounds like a bit of a thin plot for a full-length novel—well, it kind of is. There are subplots and such with the other characters, but like I said, many of these characters fell flat to me.
One thing's for sure: Michael Reaves is a decent writer, but he's no Timothy Zahn. No one can write Star Wars like Zahn can.
October 3, 2017
Jax Pavan, a hidden Jedi, from the beginning of the story, running from Vader's (supposed) threat... and deep in Pavan's heart, he suspects he is not the last Jedi (?). After some losses, a rebel group he is part of, Whiplash, is found in dissension. Only after 280 pages do we see some Jedi fight... And, by the end of the book, Jax learns something that could actually help him recover what he lost to Vader.
I wish there were more lightsaber fights... but the mere presence of the Dark Lord is worth it.
I wish there were more lightsaber fights... but the mere presence of the Dark Lord is worth it.
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