Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden is a unique look into two controversial Star Wars characters.
Here is our review…
However, something is missing, and I kept digging through the pages to find it.
Technical issues turn a strong story into something lukewarm, though.
Naturally, Vos and Ventress dont get along at first, but things dont stay that way.
The novel captures a lot of the fun ofThe Clone Wars.
She never had the found family that Vos does, and her quest to find it drives the novel.
Ventress bitterness is so powerful.
She had thought he had.)
The dialogue written for the Jedi Council, Obi-Wan, and Anakin is done very well.
Golden does good work with other establishedStar Warscharacters, too.
The Vos-Ventress relationship, of course, is critical.
Could it have been anyone else in Voss place, I found myself asking?
Would the story have gone differently if it had been Obi-Wan who was partnered with Ventress?
Or a female Jedi?
There is a sincerity to the conversations between him and Ventress that is refreshing.
In particular, Im grateful for that.
His story goes dark and plays with his emotions in interesting ways.
The prose is unexciting, with some abrupt shifts in tone that dont entirely work.
One mixed metaphor about onion-shaped buildings is particularly contradictory.
Despite that, some of the emotional hooks work.
Vos and Ventress arent an unlikeable pair.
It is absolutely,like Christie Golden said in our interview, the story of people making bad decisions.
(The very first scene sticks out as an extremely loosely connected, divergent plot line regardless.
Megan Crouse is a staff writer.
Rating:
3 out of 5