Legacies of Betrayal: Let the Galaxy Burn (Horus Heresy)

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A bigger issue: I think that Betrayal is trying to do too much here. Not only is Allston setting up Jacen's Sith journey, but this conflict between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia which will spiral out to other systems. That's a lot to do, and unfortunately the book throws us into this Galactic Alliance military action against Corellia with not a lot of setup. We jump from “Corellia is unhappy about centralization” to the Galactic Alliance parking a fleet in Corellian space and sending in Jedi teams to kidnap Corellian heads of state. I know that the Dark Nest trilogy was all about this Chiss/Killik conflict in the Unknown Regions, but I would have liked to see hints of this situation in those preceding books. It would have helped to have this built up, instead of dropping the reader into the middle of a conflict that we’ve been told has been brewing behind the scenes—with not many examples of it before everything explodes. Legacies of Betrayal contains eighteen stories from various authors including one novella length story: I've been on a Star Wars bent lately and decided to read the "Legacy of the Force" series despite its less than stellar reputation. In all honesty this book was pretty good until the very end. The premise of the book is a decent enough one: To make this plot point work you would have to do one of two things. Either firmly established that Jacen saw no other way to prevent the death of billions of people other than becoming a Sith and doing awful things or make Jacen a sociopath.

Bagley was a man determined to know the truth and to make it known. His biggest enemy was not foreign countries but his own country. Only from out of great conflict can true heroes arise. With the galaxy aflame and war on an unimaginable scale tearing the Imperium apart, champions of light and darkness venture onto countless fields of battle in service to their masters. They ask not for remembrance or reward - simply to meet their destiny head-on, and only by embracing that destiny will they come to learn what the unseen future may yet hold for them... [1] ContentsI don’t come to Star Wars for Shakespeare or deep thought. Jacen is particularly unintelligent and prone to the justification of his actions, and Luke is an enabling boss and negligent father. Ben gets a pass at being naive as he’s a 13-year-old kid, and I know he is trusting of his master, so doesn’t question what’s going on much. But don’t these people have the Force? Well, first of all, the Force is presented differently in the books then it is in the movies, so go into this book (or all Star Wars books) expecting that. People complained about Rey having new force powers in episode 9, but that’s nothing new to these novels.

But will I read it twice? Nope. I don’t want to listen to Jacen being a dummy anymore than I have too. While the book is perhaps a little heavy handed in terms of shoehorning old fan favourite characters in, and perhaps one too many fan favourite Star Wars-isms, the storytelling is solid throughout. There's a great mix of drama, suspense, lightsaber swishing and space battles, so as a result it has a fantastic cinematic quality to it. Every post will be filled with Spoilers from the novel so if you haven't read this week's book then proceed with caution. Horus Heresy Saga: Legacies of Betrayal: Let the Galaxy Burn hey man, the Sith are the cool ones....they can feel emotions and stuff. It's just a different way of doing the same thing, ect ect."I The Solar War • II The Lost and the Damned • III The First Wall • Sons of the Selenar • IV Saturnine • Fury of Magnus • V Mortis • VI Warhawk • VII Echoes of Eternity • Garro: Knight of Grey • VIII The End and the Death ( Volume I • Volume II • Volume III) The Solo plotline wasn't as interesting, except when it came into the politics of how they are essentially for both the Corellians and the GA.