Definitely Recommended Books

[DarkJedi]

I was a huge fan of the expanded universe in the novels until around 2 years ago when a certain son of a well known couple bit the dust in the recent Yavitha(sp?) series for the EU. So I stopped for a bit cause didn't really like this death at all and chose to start Harry Potter and some other series instead.

Well, last week, I went ahead and decided to start reading Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith, & Dark Lord:The Rise of Darth Vader.

For star wars fans, I most definitely recommend these books. Labyrinth of Evil starts off with Anakin and Obi Wan fighting the clone wars 3 years after the events of Attack of the Clones and the events on Geonesis....It shows how close Anakin and Obi Wan have become and how well they play off each other and the ending of the novel is with them taking off towards Coruscant to rescue Palpatine. Seriously, the conversations in this prequel is truly sad at times when seeing how close Anni and Obi Wan have become. A Jedi knows not attachment but it's clear that Obi Wan has grown attached to Anakin as a best friend should..

Revenge of the Sith is the written version of the movie and I have to say, there are much more conversations in detail between the Jedi Council as well as Palpatine & Anakin....The reader gets to see just why leaving Anakin on Coruscant (as it's wrapped in darkness) is such a terrible move. How the Council think after they turn Anakin into a chess piece...It's very well written by Stover and it gives more depth then the movie did.

Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader is a very interesting follow-up as well, beginning with Order 66 offworld of Coruscant and leading up to a very VERY surprising ending with a character I didn't expect to see at all. It also ties up alot of connecting storylines very well. The devil is in the details and this trilogy of novels does a very good job at details...whether it's conversations between characters, feeling what each vital character is thinking, or giving us a early glimpse of how the Empire got started after the events of the Revenge of the Sith movie...

5 out of 5 Stars. A whole lot of fun for star wars fans and a whole lot of sadness once this trilogy is read in regards to how big a friendship was lost on Mustafar.

Definitely recommend it.



Reading these 3 novels back to back to back make me want to end my hiatus of the EU(events after ROTJ) and go catch up on what I've missed. I just found about all the new additions of Zaun...making his inner star wars story 7 novels long.

[Magell]

Stover's work with the Star Wars novels is really awesome. I really need to get some of his non-Star Wars works. I haven't read any of those three books yet. I've never read any of the movie novelizations but with Stover writing the Revenge of the Sith one I might have to check it out sometime.

[DarkJedi]

Mags, I really recommend you do that...and get Luceno's Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord...

It's a trilogy of books where all the events are together.

Labyrinth of Evil leads right into Revenge of the Sith which leads into Dark Lord...and it fits perfectly together. Fast paced and very sad at times.

[southpaw]

I really enjoyed reading REVENGE OF THE SITH. I've been thinking about buying the audio version on iTUNES as well, I listened to alittle of it and it sounded pretty cool.

[Kaeos]

Dark Lord was an interesting read as well, too many times though I was reminded of Dark Vader's Blog

BTW - O' illustrius Jedi dude. shouldn't this thread be down in the Book Forum?

[DarkJedi]

Since this forum is about Star Wars, anything doing with the subject is going here while this forum exists.

Though it may not last much longer if the traffic continues being so slow.

[Kaeos]

Well, since we're on the subject,

I just noticed a new set of books taking place at then end of the NJO series - Dark Nest or some damn thing. Looked interesting. I have it on reserve from the old library-o

Looks to be centered on Han and Leia again.

[DarkJedi]

Is this part of the Yvethia(sp?) series? I'm not sure if they've been defeated or not since I haven't read a book in that series since a jedi son has died halfway through the series...As if Han didn't have enough to mourn about with someone else he knowing dieing earlier in the series.

After reading the last trilogy around Episode 3, I may pick up where I left off in the Yvethia(sp? again lol) series..

I also want to read the Zaun's seven books in a row in order...From Outbound Flight to the last novel from him.

[Kaeos]

I'm a big stickler for proper chronology when I read something.

You should go ahead and finish up the series. Though you're losing me with the "Yvethia" references. I tnd to refer to the whole mess as The New Jedi Order the way it's laid out in the chronology of the first few pages.

I had gone back this past spring and started up again with the series at Vector Prime where the Yuuzhan Vong first appear.

I took a little break to get into the Avengers / X-Men crossover novels, when I'm done there, I'll get back into the series where I left off at m ready to pick up at Destiny's way.

[DarkJedi]

lol The Yvethia was my attempt at remembering the Yuuzhan Vong villians.

The last book I read of the series was the hardback Star by Star in which someone dies.

I went ahead and decided to continue because of the great reading from Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith, & Dark Lord.

Just started "Dark Journey" an hour ago, the next one after Star by Star.