Never again with this series! If I ever, ever get the urge to re-read it again, somebody smack me in my face-ular area.
In all seriousness, I can’t tell if this book was genuinely better than the last one or not, because I sped-read most of it, focused only on the parts that caught my attention, and skipped large chunks of it that seemed stupid or boring. Anyway, it didn’t fill me with rage.
I’m not going to go into huge detail, or really any detail at all, in this review. I have already more than said my piece in my long and longer reviews of books one and two.
This one has the task of cleaning up the mess from before. Luke is unconscious in a Jedi fashion after being attacked by Kyp Durron and his spiritual stowaway Exar Kun, and coincidentally Leia and Han’s two year old Jedi twins are the only ones who can see his spirit floating around. At one point they have to wield his lightsaber. Yeah, a two year old wields a lightsaber. I have no energy to mock it right now, so just know that I would like to and leave it at that. Meanwhile the remnant of the Empire that is after the baby Jedi because REASONS? (Seriouslly, what the eff makes them think that a baby will be a good asset for them?? As I said in one of my status updates over on Goodreads:
He’s a BABY. What the what are you going to do with a BABY. Just because he has Jedi powers doesn’t mean you can make him your own Emperor. And what, he won’t even be an adult for twenty years! By then, the Empire will be gone. Great plan, asshole!
Then there’s this whole black hole thing that is a joke and Daala fucks shit up and there is a nearly hundred page battle I skipped entirely, which turned out to be a good idea because KJA summed it all up at the end anyway so I literally missed nothing.
In summation, these are not good Star Wars books. They are not good books in the standard of books in general. You should not read them.