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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 the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle–to unlock the secrets of his father’s death and his own past.
While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vader’s relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph.
The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because there’s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.
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 the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle–to unlock the secrets of his father’s death and his own past.
While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vader’s relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph.
The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because there’s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.
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Coruscant Nights is an exceptional book in the Star Wars saga. I like how the main character (Jax Pavan-Jedi Knight) tries to help others, and rebuild his order. This at a time when the empire's control is unquestioned, it's remarkable exactly what you would expect of a Jedi.
All of that plus all the viewpoints of his companions, put together an interesting,completely original take on the Star Wars storyline.
All of that plus all the viewpoints of his companions, put together an interesting,completely original take on the Star Wars storyline.
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This is the third book in the Jedi Noir series Coruscant Nights, as one of the few Jedi surviving the Fall of the Old Republic ekes out a living with a motley band of supporters in the lower levels of the ruling planet city Coruscant. Not as a private investigator (in the film noir style) as blurbed for the first two books in the series, but rather as a cell within the first steps towards the Rebel Alliance, an organization known as the Whiplash.
Jedi Jax Pavan is teamed with the strangely aware droid I-5YQ, around whose powers and secrets much of the plot centers. The group encounters a young Force sensitive of exceptional power, who must be instructed in the ways of the Jedi while protected from the Emperor's Inquisitors. Jax is also torn between trying to maintain the traditional Jedi chastity and the attentions of a seductive Zeltron and his feelings for Gray Paladin Twi'lek Laranth Tarak.
There's also plotting and betrayal as a climactic confrontation with none other than Darth Vader awaits. We all know that Vader survives the encounter...(SPOILER ALERT), this supposedly third book in a trilogy happily ends with the door open for more adventures. Hopefully they will appear soon.
Jedi Jax Pavan is teamed with the strangely aware droid I-5YQ, around whose powers and secrets much of the plot centers. The group encounters a young Force sensitive of exceptional power, who must be instructed in the ways of the Jedi while protected from the Emperor's Inquisitors. Jax is also torn between trying to maintain the traditional Jedi chastity and the attentions of a seductive Zeltron and his feelings for Gray Paladin Twi'lek Laranth Tarak.
There's also plotting and betrayal as a climactic confrontation with none other than Darth Vader awaits. We all know that Vader survives the encounter...(SPOILER ALERT), this supposedly third book in a trilogy happily ends with the door open for more adventures. Hopefully they will appear soon.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Ohhhh dear!! After spending all the effort in CN 1 and 2, I can't believe they let this fizzle out in such pathetic style. I know the idea is to create new markets and stories but this 3-parter should have ended, without a doubt, here! It Doesn't!
The tension is built reasonably well and I am not criticising the writing as it is enjoyable to a point, but the ending is so disappointing! We know that the purge is an emphatic event in the Star Wars timeline and as a result they should have committed to this at the end. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone but this doesn't portray Vadar to be the undefeatable menace referred to in the films or the novels from later in the timeline. As a Vadar fan, this simply isn't good enough.
There must surely be enough imagination out there to create new scenarios without keeping bit part players about in the hope of writing new trilogies. All this does is put the excellent CN 1 and CN 2 to waste. If you have to know what happens in trilogies or you collect, then by all means buy it, I would love to know your opinions, but non fans...... I wouldn't if I were you!
The tension is built reasonably well and I am not criticising the writing as it is enjoyable to a point, but the ending is so disappointing! We know that the purge is an emphatic event in the Star Wars timeline and as a result they should have committed to this at the end. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone but this doesn't portray Vadar to be the undefeatable menace referred to in the films or the novels from later in the timeline. As a Vadar fan, this simply isn't good enough.
There must surely be enough imagination out there to create new scenarios without keeping bit part players about in the hope of writing new trilogies. All this does is put the excellent CN 1 and CN 2 to waste. If you have to know what happens in trilogies or you collect, then by all means buy it, I would love to know your opinions, but non fans...... I wouldn't if I were you!
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