Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

By: Drew Karpyshyn
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy

AUTHOR: Drew Karpyshyn was born in Alberta, Canada July 28, 1971. He lived in Sherwood Park, a few miles east of where he was rased. He curently lives in Austin with his wife Jennifer and his cat. He went back to college after being a loan officer to get a bachelors degree in fine arts.Karpyshyn got a job for the game company Bioware, which he has helped write many of there stories for the online and station games alike. What lead Karpyshyn to doing a star wars book was he was asked to write for the brand new online game Star wars: The Old Republic so he decided while he wasn’t working he would write the story behind Darth Bane. He has currently not won any awards.

THE STORY: Star Wars:Darth Bane: Path of destruction Starts out on miners planet where our main character Dessel finds out he has a special power that he is strong with “force”. After he kills a man on the mining planet a bartender helps him off planet and gets him enlisted with the Army of the Sith, which is powered by darkness and rage and the whole republic army is trying  to destroy them. Des finishes his training and made to go to a battle ground and hold a sith training academy from the republic forces. With his bad temper they put him in the basement to guard the files and histories of the sith. while down he researched many sith lords learning there ways and what they did wrong so he could become the greatest and only sith lord to be.

CRITIQUE: I enjoyed the way the author explained the back story of Darth Bane he didn't just Half ass it meaning he didn't start in the middle of his journey he told what needed to be to understand

I didn't like how quickly his training went by it should have been longer than it was

I love the way how the author portrayed Bane with a cocky I know I can win attitude because of how big he it really tells you who the character is giving you a perspective of how he gone through life

This story wasn't very predictable you never really knew what was gonna happen next

PROFESSIONAL CRITIQUE: Overall, I really enjoyed this book and having a “bad guy” Sith protagonist was quite interesting. It was easy to see and recognize the Sith’s viewpoint during the novel and how Darth Bane came to his revelation. The overall story had a good flow to it and, from the few Star Wars novels that I’ve read, I’d rate this as the best one so far.

I bought Drew Karpyshyn’s Path of Destruction on the Monday before it was supposed to be released. Found it at Books-a-Million, and snatched it up early. Then it sat on the shelf until I took it to my wife’s doctor appointment on the Friday after its release. It’s now early Saturday and I’m kicking myself for not reading sooner.

Easily one of the very best Star Wars books. This is the first book that looks at the dark side through its own lenses and filters rather than through the Jedi. As humans, we struggle with determining the nature of evil. Why does it exist and why does it continue. This book grapples with some of those issues in ways that are less superficial and nonsensical than many other stories have treated the topic. It provides a historical context for the Sith while making them much more 3 dimensional. Drew Karpyshyn is to be commended for writing an intelligent yet fun to read Star Wars book... which is better than many of them