Light of the Jedi

Light of the Jedi is essentially a setup for this new era of Star Wars, The High Republic. As such it basically an impossible job.

I think my biggest criticism would be the number of characters introduced in the first part of this book. It seemed to jump to a new set of characters every chapter that when we went back to someone we already knew, I couldn't remember anything about them.

I think I would have preferred to only have one or two, maybe three, characters from the Republic (Loden Greatstorm, Lina Soh, and Avar Kriss maybe) and then the stuff with the Nihil.

I really enjoyed learning about the Nihil and I think those parts of the book are what carried me through to the end. The characters there were much more interesting and layered compared the the Republic characters.

Overall, I think it was a good first book to set up this new era and I hope the next books can be more focused on specific heroes and Jedi in the Republic.