Revenge of the Sith

Book Details Title Revenge of the Sith Era Empire Series Prequal Trilogy Type Novel Hardback 30-Apr-05 Paperback 27-Oct-05 Author(s) Matthew Stover Avg. Rating

Synopsis

Based on the screenplay of the movie, "Star Wars: Episode III", the novel brings the epic full circle, revealing at last just how the young Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, became the most evil villain in the galaxy, Darth Vader, and father to Luke and Leia. When the novel opens, the Clone Wars are still in full cry, and numerous Jedi have already been lost. Anakin is struggling with his dual life: Jedi Knight and husband (in secret) to Padme Amidala. The time is drawing near for the machiavellian Darth Sidious - the Sith Lord determined to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic - to draw tight the noose he has been creating around Anakin Skywalker...and create a new Sith Lord with unmatched dark-side Force powers...

 

Lord Depravus Says

Not as good as the film - 03-Jun-07

Firstly I'm not a huge fan of Matthew Stover's writing style and I didn't particularly like the way that this book was structured. Also some of the events were very different to what we saw in the film which spoiled it a little for me. Nevertheless, this book went into much more detail than the film and gave a lot more depth to the story.

Althougn I said I don't like Stover's writing style, I think his dark poetic approach was well suited to, what is in all fairness, the darkest book in the Star Wars universe! For this I give it an extra star.