11
Aug
Star Wars – Dark Nest: The Joiner King
Continuing with my not being able to help reading new Star Wars books, I’ve just finished “The Joiner King” by Troy Denning. Writing for the New Jedi Order story arc Troy Denning produced one of the two best books of that series. I looked forward to his return to the Star Wars universe and with this book I am not disappointed.
Joiner King takes place about 35 years after “A New Hope” and we get to learn all about an insect race outside of republic territory that has been joined by some Jedi thought to be lost. Just what you want, a Force-weilding hive member who can draw on the force potential of everything in the hive. Anyway, this had some good alien race writing that actually made them seem pretty alien and it’s making me look forward to the other two books in the trilogy out later this year.