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Darksaber by Kevin J. Anderson is the second book in a series of three that amounts to a de facto trilogy thought of as the Callista Trilogy. The first book was Barbara Hambly's Children of the Jedi, and the third will be her Planet of Twilight. I much prefer Mr. Anderson's effort. Reading Darksaber is like meeting up with old friends again. We get the whole gang - Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, R2, and Threepio. Set just after the events of Children of the Jedi, Mr. Anderson's tale tracks Luke and Callista as they try to find a way of bringing back Callista's Jedi powers. At the same time, Durga the Hutt has "hired" Bevel Lemelisk, co-designer of the original Death Star, to build a new version of the Death Star to enable Durga to expand his empire. Then we find that Admiral Daala has proved to be difficult to kill and is in fact leading efforts to unite the warlords and reassert the dominance of the Empire. The book has a lot going on and is an extremely entertaining story.

Admittedly, some of the book could be thought of as a little far-fetched even if you think that the normal Star Wars activities are perfectly normal. As I did with Children of the Jedi, I still have trouble accepting the relationship between Luke and Callista. They fell in love when she was a spirit living purely as a form of consciousness. Now she has a body and Luke is deeply in love with her. The only problem is that she has lost her Jedi powers, so much of the plotline revolves Luke and Callista and their struggles.

One other moment that could be slightly over the top takes place on Hoth. Luke, Callista, and some others are attacked by a vicious band of wampas led by a one-armed wampa who apparently has met Luke before. Possibly we didn't need the specific tie back to The Empire Strikes Back, but the sequence is well done and exciting in any case.

The action in the book is great fun to read. Lemelisk has his problems in trying to build a new version of the Death Star for Durga, and Admiral Daala is bent on wreaking havoc on any Republic forces she can find. Our heroes are exerting their best efforts to prevent any of this from happening.

Mr. Anderson was the author of the three books in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, and I thought they were extremely well done. If you enjoyed those books, you will definitely like Darksaber. Plus, you just have to like a book that opens with the following sentence: "The banthas plodded in single file, leaving only a narrow trail of scuffed footprints across the dunes." Yes!


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Darksaber Star Wars Kevin J Anderson Books Reviews

I liked the Jedi Academy a lot this feels like the first book with the actual return of the Jedi. The lack of a Sith Lord is notable, but that is probably why the conflict parts of the novel aren't huge. Mundane imperial remnants aren't much in comparison to the power of the Force....
I really enjoyed this book. The author captured my attention from the start. The author did a great job of describing the situations in a concise method. I recommend this book to all Star Wars fans.
Difficult to take Hutts seriously as the sole villain... I'm just much more of a military clash Empire/Rebels or Jedi/Sith guy. (Spoiler) Was slightly sad when Crix Madine died. Did like Admiral Daala reuniting the Imperial fleet, almost felt bad for her when the Jedi/Force tore her fleet a new one...
This is my second, closer reading of this book -- this time I've actually read Children of the Jedi to better contextualize Callista.

This book is very much KJA's follow-up to the Jedi Academy Trilogy, though unfortunately Anderson has to put Luke through the slog of helping Callista get her Jedi powers back. This is really awful as Anderson utterly fails to generate any chemistry between the two and, furthermore, erodes Luke's credibility as a mighty Jedi master by reducing him to little more than a teenage romantic.

According to Wikipedia these books are 12-13 ABY. Luke's just not a kid anymore and his character should be more mature. Anderson gave us the Jedi academy -- which I like to much! -- and now abandons it for something totally unworthy of Luke.

And now we have resurrected Daala who will essentially repeat her previous failures to no effect. Aside from destroying some diplomatic delegation from a species we've never heard of and attacking some shipyards we've never heard of, she didn't really do much with her massive manpower.

Nevertheless, her execution of all the imperial admirals save Palleon is decisively important and therefore you just can't pass Darksaber up it's essential, especially as Daala survives and will come back later. But that also means you're dealing with the Callista problem and you probably need to put the Hambly books into your headcanon too.

I do not know who came up with the idea for the Luke-Callista romance, but I wish they spared us of this. It is completely ruining the heroic journey of Luke and it's painful to slog through knowing it will be terminated.

As far as writing style goes, I dislike Anderson's huge reliance upon a sprawling third-person omniscient narration. He really wants to tell 5 short stories and has bundled them up into a novel. While I understand that this is common, I prefer to follow a single well-written linear plotline following a single hero. There's just too much jumping around and incorporation of story elements I don't particularly care for, such as the namesake of the book, the Darksaber plotline. They could have gotten rid of that totally or merged it into the Daala plotline.

I also dislike the elements that I can only describe as "novelty," such as over-mining of movie references (the repeated, merciless, unending moments where Threepio beings speaking only for characters to shut him up; Han saying things such as "It's not my fault," etc). It leads to a degree that this is insincere spinoff material.

Again, I believe this book is very important. You can't skip it, simply for what Daala does to the warlords, her character development, and Palleon's character development. But it's unfortunate that that central element is riddled with so much pork.
Darksaber by Kevin J. Anderson is the second book in a series of three that amounts to a de facto trilogy thought of as the Callista Trilogy. The first book was Barbara Hambly's Children of the Jedi, and the third will be her Planet of Twilight. I much prefer Mr. Anderson's effort. Reading Darksaber is like meeting up with old friends again. We get the whole gang - Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, R2, and Threepio. Set just after the events of Children of the Jedi, Mr. Anderson's tale tracks Luke and Callista as they try to find a way of bringing back Callista's Jedi powers. At the same time, Durga the Hutt has "hired" Bevel Lemelisk, co-designer of the original Death Star, to build a new version of the Death Star to enable Durga to expand his empire. Then we find that Admiral Daala has proved to be difficult to kill and is in fact leading efforts to unite the warlords and reassert the dominance of the Empire. The book has a lot going on and is an extremely entertaining story.

Admittedly, some of the book could be thought of as a little far-fetched even if you think that the normal Star Wars activities are perfectly normal. As I did with Children of the Jedi, I still have trouble accepting the relationship between Luke and Callista. They fell in love when she was a spirit living purely as a form of consciousness. Now she has a body and Luke is deeply in love with her. The only problem is that she has lost her Jedi powers, so much of the plotline revolves Luke and Callista and their struggles.

One other moment that could be slightly over the top takes place on Hoth. Luke, Callista, and some others are attacked by a vicious band of wampas led by a one-armed wampa who apparently has met Luke before. Possibly we didn't need the specific tie back to The Empire Strikes Back, but the sequence is well done and exciting in any case.

The action in the book is great fun to read. Lemelisk has his problems in trying to build a new version of the Death Star for Durga, and Admiral Daala is bent on wreaking havoc on any Republic forces she can find. Our heroes are exerting their best efforts to prevent any of this from happening.

Mr. Anderson was the author of the three books in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, and I thought they were extremely well done. If you enjoyed those books, you will definitely like Darksaber. Plus, you just have to like a book that opens with the following sentence "The banthas plodded in single file, leaving only a narrow trail of scuffed footprints across the dunes." Yes!