But the voice of those feelings and thoughts doesn’t ring true – the author just can’t believably capture Darth Vader’s voice. There is such anger, yes, and fragments of Anakin flicker among Vader’s stoic focus on utter obedience to his Master. We do get a healthy dose of being in Vader’s head, but that’s actually the weakest part of the novel. As everything with him, it’s a ploy to reveal traitors and crush nascent rebellion.) (Yes, the Emperor decides to visit Ryloth. His story is mad relevant.) Thanks to a choice piece of intel, Cham’s plotting soon turns to the lofty and imminent goal of assassinating the Emperor Palpatine and his murderous lapdog, Lord Vader. (Savvy fans will remember Cham from The Clone Warsanimated series, and connect him to his daughter Hera, a main character in the currently airing Rebels. While the novel opens with a brief stint in Vader’s head, all crippled pain and cybernetics and the Dark Side of the Force, the narrative perspective soon shifts to the actual focus of the story: Twi’lek Cham Syndulla and his freedom fighters, smuggling weapons and plotting for the realization of a free Ryloth. In fact, it’s honestly a testament to how well the book worked that I’m not horribly disappointed. It wasn’t the MURDERBUDDIES ROADSHOW of my dreams. It’s a twisted place.) This is the sort of gleeful, anticipatory state in which I sat down to read the novel.Īnd, well, I wasn’t given what I expected. Lords of the Sith promised me a rollicking, bloody adventure best thought of as the PALPATINE AND VADER MURDERBUDDIES ROADSHOW. When told to activate her lightsaber against the “evil” Darth Vader, she instead decides to join him and goes down on one knee before the Dark Lord. Anyway! She’s the girl who went to Disneyland, got to do the Jedi Academy stage show, and totally flipped the script. You remember Sith Girl, right? An excellent pint-sized viral Internet sensation, at least until trolls presumably chased her off the Internet.

Kemp is best described by calling upon Sith Girl. My anticipation for Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp Book Review When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely on each other, the Force, and their own ruthlessness to prevail. ISBN: 978-0345511447 Lords of the Sith: Star Wars by Paul S.

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