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Star Wars: The Joiner King (Dark Nest I) (Paperback)

by Troy Denning (Author)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (4 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099491052
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099491057
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 120,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Seven years after their daring assault deep inside enemy territory (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star), Jaina Solo and her fellow survivors answer a mysterious call for help and vanish into the Unknown Regions. Soon, the Jedi Council learns that the group has undertaken a mission that will drive a wedge between the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances and its skittish ally, the Chiss Ascendancy. The investigation leads Luke Skywalker and his companions-Mara Jade Skywalker and Han and Lela Solo-on a perilous journey into the uncharted void that iles between what is right and what is wrong...

About the Author
Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost and Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star, as well as Waterdeep (under the pseudonym Richard Awlinson), Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, The Summoning, and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant continuation of the Star Wars novel series, 2 Aug 2005
By Skywalker fan "GMS" (Oxon, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
In Star wars Dark Nest 1: The Joiner King Troy Denning does a brilliant job of showing the Star Wars galaxy recovering from the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion detailed in the New Jedi Order series. It was good to see that the Jedi have firmly established themelves a new temple on Coruscant, a new Jedi Academy on Ossus and a Masters Council in the Post Yuuzhan Vong War Galaxy. The plot is interestingly different and in my opinion is worthwhile as it does not go down the path of rehashing the Imperial vs New Republic conflict or extending the Yuuzhan Vong situation after it was wrapped up extremely well in "The Unifying Force" but instead shows the Jedi Order in the process of getting used to being peacekeepers and playing a part in rebuilding the galaxy they helped save in "The Unifying Force". However through the book we discover that the Jedi of this era are also trying to integrate the new found knowledge of the Unifying force and that the force has a Will into their lives, plus we see the consequences of the brutal Yuuzhan War upon what the Jedi are prepared to do to save the galaxy. This Jedi contemplating is subtly integrated into the plot which revolves around mysterious border skirmish between an insectile race called the Killiks and the Chiss and the consequences when a group of Jedi Knights become deeply involved in it.

I found it an enjoyable read and I am quite sure those of you who follow the Star Wars Novels will do too. It serves as a good solid introduction to the Dark Nest trilogy with plenty of plot points included that will be developed and sorted out in the next two books, including Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo finding out some tantalizing details of their past. It also acts as a prologue to the 9 book Legacy of the Force series that starts next year. It also helps clear up almost all of the continuity questions people had after reading about the Chiss in Survivor's Quest after seeing how different things were later when they read about the Chiss in Force heretic II: Refugee. Good Stuff.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jedi, Chiss and plenty of bugs, 20 Jul 2008
Having finished the massive New Jedi Order series there were a lot of things that I wanted to know. What was going to happen to the Galactic Alliance, the Jedi and what story could follow the total war monster storyline that was the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. This book gave me answers but not in a fan service way, The joiner King gives us as many challenging realities as simple fan friendly platitudes. It feature many, many retuning favorites from the New Jedi Order series as well as the film mainstays.

The Joiner King uses the Killik species created by Kevin J Anderson and weaves a tense and thrilling border conflict with the Chiss as the primary thrust of the plot. It is very interesting to see that this very small scale conflict is used as it allows the reader and the galaxy a break from constant masssive war and also because it uses the conflict to explore a number of post Yuuzhan Vong Invasion issues such as the Jedi Order views on the force, the Galactic Alliance state of affairs and many more. This I found was a riveting aspect of the book and the trilogy as a whole. I cant recommend it highly enough.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Star Boredom, 7 Jul 2008
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Maybe I'm being harsh but after reading a couple of the fantastic early short stories (Bounty Hunters & Mos Eisley Cantina)I thought to try a full length novel in the SW cannon. It seems as though there is little or no originality left - characters repeating the same old cliched lines from the movies. The plot was pretty thin but extended over 400 very long pages. If you're looking for a well written entertaining story, this isn't it
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