I really dug on the first half of this book. I have no background into who Blackhole, Shadowspawn, or Cronal are (although I did catch the shoutout to Kadann, the Prophet of the Darkside from the old Jedi Prince novels). Shadowspawn seemed a neat villain with an interesting angle.

But then it just got to confusing. I got really bored really quick with Cronal, and Luke, and THE DARK. Too much just seemed to be going on, and the peculiar framing story from the first chapter kept bugging me. I was impatient to get to the part it refferred to. I was also frustrated by all of the scenes of rock melting. I got it. The rock melts. If it was a movie, that would have been the most overused special effect. I didn't mind the PT refrences at all.

Then there was the non-ending. That ticked me of. I had high hopes for this story, since Stover's Ep. 3 novelisation was ballstothewall the best Star Wars novel I'd read in years and made me like Ep. 3 the movie even more. I'd give this a resounding 'meh.'