by Sean Williams
I have to admit, I hesitated when I first came across this volume. Books written after video games can really be a hit or miss. In this case, it is a direct hit. Star Wars: Force Unleashed presents interesting new characters along with the classic ones that we know including Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Bale Organa, Leia Organa, and others.
The background for Force Unleashed is that Darth Vader, while on a mission on Kashyyk (the Wookie Homeworld), comes across a Jedi in hiding and his force empowered young son. Vader kills the Jedi and decides to take the son as his secret apprentice. Over the next several years, he trains the youngster into a hardened Sith warrior whose existence is in complete secret.
Things get interesting when Vader decides to send Starkiller, his apprentice, on a mission to take on a former Jedi General. Paired up with the ace pilot, Juno Eclipse (who beings to stir up feelings in him that he had not experienced before), and his trusty droid PROXY (whose job it is to keep him on his toes by constantly utilizing the holographic images of long dead Jedi Knights and Sith Lords, as well as their Lightsaber fighting styles, to try to kill the apprentice), Starkiller meets up with more than he could have ever imagined and his entire world, and everything he has known is turned upside down.
This is a great book with lots of action and some interesting plot twists. I highly recommend it.
Mike Saxton
Author
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