3/11/2024 0 Comments Star wars the high republic reviewUnfortunately, I found the use of the Drengir themselves a little underwhelming, introduced in a way that felt oddly matter-of-fact. I really loved the idea of them encountering something they can recognize as Darkness, but not being able to properly understand it. What I did like, mind you, was how much the trouble was caused by each Jedi’s own mistakes, specifically related to the Drengir, the plant-like beings they unwittingly release, believing they’re actually dispelling darkness. The back and forth was a little too meandering for me too. I found this to be unfortunately simple, as I was really hoping that they’d be dealing with an escalating crisis indirectly caused by the greater disaster. Our characters leave the station after a series of tribulations and a fatal incident, learn more about the catastrophe that put them there in the first place, and then realize that they have made some grievous errors and must return. Though it did inspire some spooky feelings in spots, it was ultimately a rather straightforward romp that didn’t stray too far from series conventions. Early on, as our Jedi characters and the crew of their transport ship, the Vessel, set foot on the derelict station, strangely populated by a multitude of plants in an arboretum and permeated with a mystical sense of dread, I thought this book might be telling a light horror novel, a genre uncommonly explored in the franchise. The book does seem like it’s meant to stand well enough on its own, and it does in other respects, but the stakes of the conflict at large don’t feel as fleshed out as they should be.Īs a whole, I thought the plot of this novel was actually a lot weaker than I was hoping it’d be, especially compared to Gray’s other Star Wars books. If you’ve read that book first, then it’s no problem, but I wouldn’t blame someone for feeling like they could start here. I have mixed feelings about the way this was pulled off, however, as Soule’s novel does so much to outline the Hyperspace disaster and the nature of the villains behind it, the Nihil, that I don’t think this novel matches. Published a little under a month after the inaugural novel, Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, Into the Dark is not a sequel, but a story that runs parallel to the events of that first book. Though I’ve also been reading some of the comics, the idea of The High Republic being a “multimedia project” was at the forefront of my mind the most while reading this novel. If they’re not careful, a nightmarish scourge that has been dormant for eons could be released upon the galaxy. While the reason for the catastrophe eludes them, the station itself holds a dark secret: an overbearing presence of the Dark side of the Force that Reath and his fellow Jedi struggle to understand. A disaster in Hyperspace forces their transport ship to seek refuge on a derelict space station, along with a number of other refugee spacecrafts. Travelling to Starlight separately from her, with Jedi Masters Orla Jareni and Cohmac Vitus, and Jedi Knight Dez Rydan, he is struck with trouble sooner than expected. Reath isn’t the adventurous type, but where his Master goes he must follow. His ideal routine of plunging into the Archives of the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant is stripped away, however, when his Master, Jora Malli, becomes the Jedi commander of Starlight Beacon, a space station on the Republic frontier in the Outer Rim territories of the galaxy. Jedi Padawan Reath Silas may not be as Force-sensitive as his peers, but the young apprentice works hard to earn his mettle within the Jedi Order, determined to become one of its great scholars. The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray is the first YA novel in the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia series, which is set 200 years before Star Wars Episode I.
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