Legacy of the Force: Tempest

One of the things Star Wars often ignores is the political side of war, which is understandable - it's more exciting to watch or read about a lightsaber battle than it is to see ambassadors negotiating treaties. And while this book still had some of the former, it focused more on the latter, which is a welcome change.

Denning also tried to provide more explanation for Jacen's Sith turn, which I'm still not happy about, on a character, story, or thematic level. But I did appreciated that he knows it's a decision they're stuck with, so one might as well make it as believable as possible.

For a star wars book it was ok. I want to give it 2.5 stars but since I cant pick half a star we will leave it at 3 stars

Jacen continues to slide to the “dark side” of the force and memories of the old with lord's surface with the force choke used for the first time in this particular star wars book series.

Family loyalties continue to be tested between luke, mara and Ben as well as han, leia and jacen.

One little thing that seemed to be kind useless and pointless was when Ben decided he needed to arrest han and leia. He decides this in the middle of a battle when they are trying to survive. I mean why wait till mid battle if they were all aboard the falcon why wouldn't he have decided to do this before? It just made no sense for the timing and seemed a rather pointless thing to insert into the story at that time.

Overall it was ok. Not terrible but not great