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Patterns of Force (Star Wars: Coruscant Nights, #3) (Star Wars: Coruscant Nights #3)
After the Empire’s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that he’s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself.
Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant’s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with th...more
Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant’s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with th...more
Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
Published
June 28th 2011
by Del Rey
(first published January 27th 2009)
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Years ago Michael Reaves wrote a book about a janitor working in the Jedi temple who discovers the existence of the Sith. Darth Maul sets out on a quest to destroy that janitor and his droid. To anybody familiar with Darth Maul there is no doubting the conclusion. Reaves brought it all together well and made it feel, at times, like perhaps there was a small chance that some of the characters might live.
Well, they don't.
But the janitor, Lorn Pavan, had a son named Jax who ...more
Well, they don't.
But the janitor, Lorn Pavan, had a son named Jax who ...more
This is the third book in the "Coruscant Nights" trilogy, a Star Wars series set just after the events of The Revenge of the Sith. Like the other books in this trilogy, this story is essentially a mystery/detective story in structure. Instead of revolving around a murder, like the previous book, the mystery here is finding out which character is in possession of a desired object. Unfortunately, it falls a bit flat. The desired object just doesn't seem worth the energy that all the ...more
Well I finished this trilogy and have to confess the middle book was more "STAR WARS" than the others in the series. All three of the books had brief cameos of Darth Vader, however, I have to report that overall I was disappointed in the series because it wasn't really about a Private Eye in a Star Wars setting. Instead, it was about a guy building up an "A-Team" type of organization of wanted folks seeking to work in an underground manner in opposition to the Empire.
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"If Jax commits himself and his team to Palpatine's assassination, then what distinguishes him from those who represent the dark side?"
So I was really impressed by number 1, disappointed by number 2, and ready to see how the series would end. So I embarked on the third and final chapter!
Jax Pavan, Den Dhur, I-Five, and Rhinann return in our final installment with the lovely Dejah Duare on what could be their final mission. A rogue Force adept roams the underworld, threate...more
So I was really impressed by number 1, disappointed by number 2, and ready to see how the series would end. So I embarked on the third and final chapter!
Jax Pavan, Den Dhur, I-Five, and Rhinann return in our final installment with the lovely Dejah Duare on what could be their final mission. A rogue Force adept roams the underworld, threate...more
Meh. I love many of the Star Wars novels that come before Episode IV. That's everything from way before Episode I to Clone War stuff to stuff between Epidoes III and IV. This series is just OK though. You pretty much have to read this author's other three prequel age books (A Darth Maul one that is OK and a Clone Wars duo that are good, but philosophical more than action-packed.) to have any idea what's going on in this series.
Then this series kind of tries to meld the action Sta...more
Then this series kind of tries to meld the action Sta...more
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Michael Reaves’ third entry in his “Coruscant Nights” series gets back to what made the first book work so well, and away from all the things that hindered book two. Gone is the slavish, checklist-list like fixation with hitting all the noir tropes, and present again is the character driven plot that evolves naturally from the relationships of Reaves’ ragtag band of misfits.
Del Rey seems to have been conducting an interesting little experiment over the last few years, attempting to ...more
Del Rey seems to have been conducting an interesting little experiment over the last few years, attempting to ...more
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The conclusion.
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At times the story moved slowly. I was very disappointed with the ending. I would have expected a bigger duel when Jax faced Darth Vadar, but it never happened. The whole trilogy seemed to be building to that conclusion but it never happened. While I will give credit with this trilogy for being different from the other books in the expanded universe, the endings left me disappointed. My other gripe is how many more books will we see some being with exceptional force abilities. We saw this ...more
Wow! They weren’t kidding on the title. Everyone sees patterns of the Force, but different ones unique to each individual. Wait until you come to any paragraph introducing a new Force user flexing his Force muscles for the first time “on screen.” Reaves draws diagrams and detailed descriptions so you really get the point that this must be really important to the plot. It’d be silly to have a title that made absolutely no sense.
Let me stop you now from thinking that this actually...more
Let me stop you now from thinking that this actually...more
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This third book in the trilogy was a let down. After a pretty exciting 2nd act in Street of Shadows, the finale just kind of left me feeling like there should be a few more books after this...there was no clear ending either good or bad. All the effort put forth in the three books seemed to have been a waste of time except for the introduction of a few characters... Big Whoop!
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It was painful reading this book. It took me little over a month to trudge through and I'm glad it's done. A fourth book is scheduled to come out in 2012 and I don't think I'll be reading that book. I think the Jax Pavan character is just a little too generic and frankly, I didn't learn much about him after three books or any of his motivations.
I really believe that this series was killed by editing. Especially in the final book it seemed to jump large amonts of time without really concluding what was happening before. It was the wrost forced ending in Star Wars book history. I actually gave the first book 5 stars but I'll change that now I've read the whole series. On the whole the series gets 3 stars. Don't even bother.
Okay ending to a decent series. Tied up the major loose ends satisfactorily.
Reaves has the bad habit of introducing a "bum of the month" bad guy and saving Vader for cardboard cutout cameo appearances. Such is the bane of fan fiction. However, he did leave himself plenty of hooks for a future series.
Quibble: the cover art shows a light saber duel between Vader and Javan which never happens.
Reaves has the bad habit of introducing a "bum of the month" bad guy and saving Vader for cardboard cutout cameo appearances. Such is the bane of fan fiction. However, he did leave himself plenty of hooks for a future series.
Quibble: the cover art shows a light saber duel between Vader and Javan which never happens.
This book finishes the series. It's set right after the Jedi Purge and is about a Jedi who escaped the purges and is working to help the nascent Rebellion on Coruscant.
Several of the characters are from different books (the Darth Maul book and the Medstar series).
Characterization is solid for the most part. There is a plot twist that disappointed me, but other than that, the plot is well done.
Read the first two in the series first though or you'll be lost. ...more
Several of the characters are from different books (the Darth Maul book and the Medstar series).
Characterization is solid for the most part. There is a plot twist that disappointed me, but other than that, the plot is well done.
Read the first two in the series first though or you'll be lost. ...more
Another great Star Wars read! Though, I would like to have seen Jax Pavan finally make the Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, but in the last chapter, I think he does. Hopefully, that plot point comes to full fruition in the upcoming Coruscant Nights 4 novel.
By the time I was on the 3rd on of the trilogy, I just wanted to finish reading and be done with it.
Well, I think it's a fantabulous book, but then I helped write it.
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A fitting finish to the Coruscant Nights series finds Jax Pavan having a confrontation wit the Emperor's right-hand man, Darth Vader, and living to tell about it!
I'm dying to see what happens next!
What can I say, put Darth Vader in a story for several chapters and I'll read it.....
So much talking, not enough doing.
Mathew Carruthers
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