Star Wars: Dark Lord - The Rise of Darth Vader
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4.3 • 59 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The newly created Darth Vader flexes his Force-muscle as the Emperor's enforcer to maintain order and obedience in a galaxy reeling from civil war and the destruction of the Jedi Order.
To the galaxy at large, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker - the Chosen One - died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, the was true - Anakin was dead.
But from the site of Anakin Skywalker's last stand - on the molten surface of the planet Mustafa, where he sought to destroy his friend and former master, Obi-Wan Kanobi - a fearsome spectre in black has risen.
Once the most powerful Knight ever known to the Jedi order he is not a disciple of the dark side, a lord of the dreaded Sith, and the avenging right hand of the galaxy's ruthless new Emperor. Seduced, deranged and destroyed by the machinations of the Dark Lord Sidious, Anakin Skywalker is dead ... and Darth Vader lives ...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Force is still to be reckoned with, primarily because Darth Vader continues to be one of the most fascinating dark pop icons since Dracula. Picking up where Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith (2005) left off, Luceno (Labyrinth of Evil) delivers exciting battle scenes and brave characters, including the beloved Wookie, Chewbacca. His ease with Star Wars techno-jargon is admirable. What's needed in this intermittently entertaining installment is a better opponent for Vader. Unfortunately, Yoda, the spiritual heart of the saga, appears to be in hiding. Instead, Luceno focuses on Jedi knight Roan Shryne; his Padawan sidekick, Olee Starstone; and other survivors of Emperor Palpatine's Jedi extermination. All appear to be earnest, if pale, imitations of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And where's Han Solo, far older than the Skywalker twins? Why can't Vader sense his twins' existence with his vaunted supernatural abilities? Too often the sympathetic Vader wallows in self-pity. Thankfully, exuberantly evil Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious) returns with more power lessons Vader laps up eagerly: "Where the Jedi gained power through understanding, the Sith gain understanding through power."
Customer Reviews
good book
it is a really good story
Great Book
this book was one the best (if not few) Star Wars books I have ever read I bouth the hard back copy years ago and found the story just intense. Showing how Anakin makes his final fall to the Dark Side and becomes the true lord of the Sith as the iconic Darth Vader
A decent follow up to episode 3
Let me start of by saying that the stuff in here with vadar and the emperor is outstanding. Picking up in the weeks following order 66, you get a really good insight into the dramatic change from what was the republic to now the empire and all the changes it’s bringing in and how people all across the galaxy are dealing with it. Where this books starts to drag is when it focuses on some of the survivors of order 66 and I just kept wishing it would go back to vadar asap. Thankfully it doesn’t distract to much from an amazing dynamic between the emperor and vadar, it’s clear that with this book and the plagues novel (which you should definitely read) that the author really understands these characters and the dark side as well as anyone who’s ever wrote a Star Wars book.