Post by Astroruss on Apr 22, 2010 0:28:51 GMT -5
Review of Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil 
By Drew Karpyshkin
This one's for you especially Scotty. So you better read it. This book is delightfully evil.
Taking place ten years after their confrontation with the Jedi on Tyhon, the Sith have cloaked themselves in secrecy yet again. Instead of living a bare, sparse, marginal existence, Bane and Zannah have now become wealthy, powerful stock brokers. They use their money and influence wisely. Bane using it to acquire long lost Sith artifacts, Zannah using it to expand her own on and offworld contacts.
Bane is beginning to doubt in Zannah; she has not yet challenged him for the mantle of lordship of the Sith. Zannah, on the other hand, is merely waiting for a good opportunity.
Things get complicated when the royal princess of Doan seeks to avenge the death of her husband. She hires an Iktotchi assassin to kill the assassin of her prince. This assassin, known as the Huntress, is instinctively strong in the Force and can see the future. The princess Serra also has a bodyguard/bestfriend, Lucia, who has past connections with the Sith troops.
Serra also discovers she has a vested, peronal interest in capturing and killing Bane.
The plot thickens as another evil bastard shows up, Set the Dark Jedi. This guy watches out only for himself and his own money. But fate throws him into the mix, with three Force-using-creeps at his guts.
But problems arise more. Serra attempts to kill Bane backfire severely, as does Zannah's attempt to challenge him and gain her own apprentice. The Sith always bring about such rotten twists and turns in fate, don't they?
The book ends with the challenge for lordship over the Sith and their new apprentice, Darth Cognus.
Only it doesn't end how you think.
A real page turner, and simple to read too. I went through it only a few days once I finally bought it. And the Sith continue on into the future, to challenge the Jedi someday for galactic domination!!!!
By Drew Karpyshkin
This one's for you especially Scotty. So you better read it. This book is delightfully evil.
Taking place ten years after their confrontation with the Jedi on Tyhon, the Sith have cloaked themselves in secrecy yet again. Instead of living a bare, sparse, marginal existence, Bane and Zannah have now become wealthy, powerful stock brokers. They use their money and influence wisely. Bane using it to acquire long lost Sith artifacts, Zannah using it to expand her own on and offworld contacts.
Bane is beginning to doubt in Zannah; she has not yet challenged him for the mantle of lordship of the Sith. Zannah, on the other hand, is merely waiting for a good opportunity.
Things get complicated when the royal princess of Doan seeks to avenge the death of her husband. She hires an Iktotchi assassin to kill the assassin of her prince. This assassin, known as the Huntress, is instinctively strong in the Force and can see the future.
The princess Serra also has a bodyguard/bestfriend, Lucia, who has past connections with the Sith troops. Serra also discovers she has a vested, peronal interest in capturing and killing Bane.
The plot thickens as another evil bastard shows up, Set the Dark Jedi. This guy watches out only for himself and his own money. But fate throws him into the mix, with three Force-using-creeps at his guts.
But problems arise more. Serra attempts to kill Bane backfire severely, as does Zannah's attempt to challenge him and gain her own apprentice. The Sith always bring about such rotten twists and turns in fate, don't they?
The book ends with the challenge for lordship over the Sith and their new apprentice, Darth Cognus.
Only it doesn't end how you think.
A real page turner, and simple to read too. I went through it only a few days once I finally bought it. And the Sith continue on into the future, to challenge the Jedi someday for galactic domination!!!!
