![]() ![]() The Vos-Ventress relationship, of course, is critical. It would have been overdramatic if it had been, but it would also have been interesting to see more about Anakin’s reactions to Vos, another emotionally volatile Jedi. Commander Cody only appears briefly, but makes a very important distinction when he says he’d rather see a friend turn to the dark side than simply betray people out of some more secular meanness.įor all that it’s mentioned, the fact that Jedi are supposed to suppress their emotions does not really become an issue in the plot. Golden does good work with other established Star Wars characters, too. The best conversations among the Jedi Council members call both backwards to Barris Offee’s turbulent relationship with the Jedi and forward to Anakin’s. The book actually succeeds in something that I think The Clone Wars tried but never quite got right: portraying the Jedi Council as either incompetent or outright hostile to the emotional needs of the people it serves. The Council scenes lack description – it takes an early scene several pages to establish that it takes place in the Council chamber, but the voices are spot-on. Anakin is not a large part of the story but, perfectly in character, invites himself into it whenever he gets a chance. ![]() The dialogue written for the Jedi Council, Obi-Wan, and Anakin is done very well. She had thought he had.”) The most vivid moment in the novel is actually the aftermath of a different story entirely, the massacre of the Nightsisters. She feels that she has lost the strong platonic connection she had with her Sith Master (“Dooku had not loved her. She never had the found family that Vos does, and her quest to find it drives the novel. ![]() The Jedi are the opposite of Ventress, not necessarily because of her philosophy, but because of her experience. ![]()
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