Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force,
Book 4) by Aaron Allston
Star Wars: Exile (Legacy Of The Force, Book 4)
In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and
Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery
to the nightmare of all-out war.
With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more
admired, more powerful, and more certain of achieving galactic peace. But
that peace may come with a price. Despite strained relationships caused
by opposing sympathies in the war, Han and Leia Solo and Luke and Mara
Skywalker remain united by one frightening suspicion: Someone insidious
is manipulating this war, and if he or she isn’t stopped, all efforts at
reconciliation may be for naught. And as sinister visions lead Luke to
believe that the source of the evil is none other than Lumiya, Dark Lady of
the Sith, the greatest peril revolves around Jacen himself. . . .

Personal Review: Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 4)
by Aaron Allston
This Star Wars series has been less than inspiring in many aspects, giving
us a tour of various Star Wars authors, reaquainting us with their strengths
and weaknesses, and all the while following a very slow moving master
plot. When you are used to looking at the films, with their clear plot
objectives and movement outlined with very little else, and then, with
Legacy of the Force, are given vague plot objectives and movement with a
whole lot of extraneous material, it has a tendency to have a diluting effect.
Only if you read like a banshee, and get from books 1 to 4 in a flash, do
you get find some things starting to move.
Exile is the major turning point in the series, where motives are discovered,
and we can begin to understand the focus of the master plot by simply
having the characters figure it out for themselves. Not only that, but each
character in the stories is given time to develop, strategize, and be tested
in new and dramatic ways.
In terms of who to look for in this book, Ben Skywalker is of the most
interest, and Alema Rar is a close second on the "darkside" of the coin.
Jacen is clearly not the star of this book, but his parents, Han and Leia,
along with old buddy Lando drive a good portion of the plot. While their
story brings a lot of the old good buddy smuggler comradarie back into the
story, given it a nice warm appeal, the things going on around Han and
Leia are sometimes more interesting the things that they do themselves.
This is saying a lot, because really, Han and Leia have a pretty exciting
ride.
Aaron's debut to the series was really a long way from the quality of this
novel. This novel had heart, which the first one did not, and this novel had
focus, while the first novel was completely scattered. I really feel like a lot
of the good ideas for this series originated with Aaron, and perhaps he
wanted to do too much with the plot of the first novel and forgot to just sit
down and write a good book. This book was a success on a number of
levels, and almost seemed to be an amalgam of the best traits of all the
authors so far. Clearly, Aaron should be the star writer of this series, and
is very necessary to advance the main plot.
This book was hard to put down, and vallidated my faith in the series.
Kudos to Aaron.
Highly Recommended.
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