yeah its pretty good, parts get kinda boring, but if you have all three ready one after the other you'll enjoy it. its a real throw back though dayv. there is alot of stuff from the POV of luke, liea, and other older jedi. the young jedi, are veiwed as exactly thats, young and nieve, even though they are not. Jacen character is really cool though, even though he isnt a master, let alone on the council, luke still talks to him the same with yoda may have talked to mace. or surprisingly vice versa. the more i read about it the more i think that luke is really the sword of the jedi, and that the philosophies need to be left to someone else. jacen is really taking on the role of yoda now, however he is still quite rebellious.

anyway on another note, i think that this might be the last book series for starwars interms of books after the movies. with this 9 book series, and the comics with lukes great great grandson, that takes place 100 years after the fact. 140 years after a new hope, we are finally going to see what happens. i predict that luke as well as many of the old gaurd die in this new series. to tell you the truth i thought they were going to kill luke at the end of the NJO. that would have been a very good end to his life after he had killed shimrra. his last words could have been, "i die having brought the galaxy back from darkness twice, and leave it to you now"