Review : Exile

I've finished Exile written this review but plain forgotten to publish it. IMO, this was not a good continuation to the Legacy series. There was no impactful event to carry on into the next book. There are 2 big storylines in this, first was the hunt for Alema Rar and second was the trial of Ben Skywalker. Although both featured saber fights, but there was no … oomph! … in both. It was lackluster the very least. Even the space battle scenes was a letdown. The first one was over by the time you turn over the next page ... duhhh!!! The hunt was fairly weak, it happened in Booster's RED star destroyer which is now a casino/entertainment vessel. With 5 jedis that includes 3 masters and a handful ex-smugglers that shoot from the hip, Alema still manages to escape. Double duhhh!!! Ben's trial was even worst. Jacen, under the Sith Lady's insistence, puts Ben on a bogus mission to test him for sith apprentice material. Ben eventually gets marooned on a deserted sith planet called Xiost. He kills a man following his mission parameters and ends up with an orphaned girl. Here, alone and weak due to hunger and exhaustion, the dark powers around him cajoles him to kill the girl and even asks him to eat her to gain enough strength to find the enemies hunting him down. Awww man ... what a stupid idea to put through. He ends up with a sith vehicle (controlled by dark powers) which was described just like the roving planet, Zonama Sekot. Ben, now clearly bad material for a sith, returns to Jacen after completing his bogus mission. This is definitely a 3 of 5.