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Look at that cover. This book looks like it is about Anakin fighting Grievous, maybe tracking him to his lair, fighting droids and traps, the most powerful Jedi fighting a notorious Jedi-killer. That's something worth reading, right?
Instead, you get a lot of things you don't want. Tracking a chair manufacturer - thrilling. the "labyrinth of evil" is just tracking Sidious through some Coruscant back door. Padme and Bail chapters, blah blah, and then the ending, which (written in 2005) is an alter ...more
Instead, you get a lot of things you don't want. Tracking a chair manufacturer - thrilling. the "labyrinth of evil" is just tracking Sidious through some Coruscant back door. Padme and Bail chapters, blah blah, and then the ending, which (written in 2005) is an alter ...more

I thought this novel was ok. It’s certainly interesting to see how we get to the beginning of Revenge of the Sith and some of the backstory of Grevious who was a completely new character in episode 3. I do think the novel meandered a little bit and wish for a little more focus on Anakin and Padme (especially her pregnancy)

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