Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
By Drew Karpyshyn
Genre: Science Fiction
THE AUTHOR: Drew Karpyshyn works with Bioware. A video game company that focuses on Sci-Fi games (mostly Star Wars). He was the lead writer of the 2003 Xbox game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It got the "Game Of The Year" award, and so did the sequel. His Darth Bane novel was selected by the School Library Journal for one of the “Best Adult Books for High School Students of 2006”. There are also two sequels following “Path of Destruction”. He has a new novel out that is a novel of the new “Star Wars” video game, “The Old Republic”.
THE STORY: Path of Destruction takes place in a galaxy far, far away during the Old Republic. Des was a cortosis miner on the planet Apatros, and got into a big fight killing someone after a couple drinks at the bar. The Republic forces were after him. So on the run he joins the Sith Army to go to war and fight against the Republic, and the Jedi. On a stealth mission he kills a lot of targets and gives into his anger. This is when the Sith notice him and bring him to the Sith Academy on Korriban. This event leads to him becoming Darth Bane.
Ballantine Books. 389 pages. $7.99
CRITIQUE:
Combat- The author does a good job describing the combat that happens during the story. Like when the Sith have lightsaber combat at the academy, and Des cut open his opponents lightsaber. The look on his face when he was beaten.
Character Descriptions- The character descriptions are very weak in this book. In the intro when the author is introducing the founder of The Dark Brotherhood, Lord Kaan he doesn't say anything except for that. Also when the two of the most powerful Sith approach him the author says that one is human, and one is a twi'lek. Then he says that one is tall, lean, and and appears almost skeletal. He doesn't say anything about the other one. He doesn't even say which character is which race.
Dialog- Dialog was good because there wasn't too much of it. The author focused more on describing what the characters were doing then what they were saying.
Suspense- This book had no part that was boring. Every time I read it something exciting was happening. This book was one of the only books I have read this year that I could not put down.
Publishers Weekly
"A solid space adventure (that) charts the evolutions of an antihero almost as chilling as Darth Vader." Not Attributed
Dreamwatch
"It effortlessly explores the way in which the class system and worker oppression can make the dark path look attractive...a well told filling-in of Sith history" Not Attributed
School Library Journal
This is an entertaining read, well written and consistent in its history. Readers new to the Star Wars series will like it, and fans won't be disappointed. Dana Cobern-Kullman
Genre: Science Fiction
THE AUTHOR: Drew Karpyshyn works with Bioware. A video game company that focuses on Sci-Fi games (mostly Star Wars). He was the lead writer of the 2003 Xbox game, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It got the "Game Of The Year" award, and so did the sequel. His Darth Bane novel was selected by the School Library Journal for one of the “Best Adult Books for High School Students of 2006”. There are also two sequels following “Path of Destruction”. He has a new novel out that is a novel of the new “Star Wars” video game, “The Old Republic”. THE STORY: Path of Destruction takes place in a galaxy far, far away during the Old Republic. Des was a cortosis miner on the planet Apatros, and got into a big fight killing someone after a couple drinks at the bar. The Republic forces were after him. So on the run he joins the Sith Army to go to war and fight against the Republic, and the Jedi. On a stealth mission he kills a lot of targets and gives into his anger. This is when the Sith notice him and bring him to the Sith Academy on Korriban. This event leads to him becoming Darth Bane.
Ballantine Books. 389 pages. $7.99
CRITIQUE:
Combat- The author does a good job describing the combat that happens during the story. Like when the Sith have lightsaber combat at the academy, and Des cut open his opponents lightsaber. The look on his face when he was beaten.
Character Descriptions- The character descriptions are very weak in this book. In the intro when the author is introducing the founder of The Dark Brotherhood, Lord Kaan he doesn't say anything except for that. Also when the two of the most powerful Sith approach him the author says that one is human, and one is a twi'lek. Then he says that one is tall, lean, and and appears almost skeletal. He doesn't say anything about the other one. He doesn't even say which character is which race.
Dialog- Dialog was good because there wasn't too much of it. The author focused more on describing what the characters were doing then what they were saying.
Suspense- This book had no part that was boring. Every time I read it something exciting was happening. This book was one of the only books I have read this year that I could not put down.
Publishers Weekly
"A solid space adventure (that) charts the evolutions of an antihero almost as chilling as Darth Vader." Not Attributed
Dreamwatch
"It effortlessly explores the way in which the class system and worker oppression can make the dark path look attractive...a well told filling-in of Sith history" Not Attributed
School Library Journal
This is an entertaining read, well written and consistent in its history. Readers new to the Star Wars series will like it, and fans won't be disappointed. Dana Cobern-Kullman
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