I just felt like the argument wasn't presented well and Jacen's sudden turn and flat-out murder of his random friend was really sudden and weird. Meanwhile, Luke is a guy who isn’t very good at his job. Jacen is an idiot whom Luke is 100% responsible for. While Jacen is botching up hostage negotiations and letting people blow themselves up, literally no one thinks, “Gee, maybe Master Skywalker should know this?” No. I’m sure someone would have informed Luke about the activities of his Jedi and what they were up to. It’s utterly STOOPID that he isn’t keeping a watchful, fatherly eye over the very person he is letting EDUCATE HIS SON! This arc is literally called “Legacy of the Force,” and Luke would have known that his “legacy” needs to be carefully trained.

First things first, all of the stories collected here have been previously released in one way or another; we get one novella (Chris Wraight’s Brotherhood of the Storm), prose versions of eleven audio dramas (of varying lengths) and seven other short stories (again of varying lengths) drawn from limited edition anthologies, ebooks and event programmes. Where some previous Heresy anthologies have had crystal-clear themes (Mark of Calth, for example), this is only loosely themed, looking at the way in which the characters represented have been affected by the events of the war so far, and while there’s an argument to say that every character involved in the Heresy has been affected by betrayal in some way, as a theme it just about works. Han and Leia get to flex their spy chops, and their motivations and actions seem to be MUCH more intelligent and carefully crafted. All the other side characters grabbed my interest. In particular, there is a family dinner at Han and Leia’s house in or around chapter 4. Han is overwhelmed and surrounded on ALL SIDES by Jedi, all of them being his direct family. 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…

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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 The Spy Who Knew Too Much” by Howard Blum is a well researched and exceptionally organized true story of CIA agent Pete Bagley🕵️‍♂️

Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9114 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA409843 Openlibrary_edition Completely arbitrarily, I decided that I would resume my own personal SWEU reading challenge in 2021, starting with Aaron Allston’s “Betrayal”, the first book in a nine-book series entitled Legacy of the Force. This is where Aaron Allston's Legacy of the Force: Betrayal comes in. Where Kylo Ren is flat, uninteresting and bland, Jacen Solo is nuanced, complex and prodigious. Where the new movies' Luke is a batty, frightened old man, the late EU version of Luke is wise, deep and paternal. Without intending for this review to be a bash on Disney's interpretation of the Star Wars franchise, I feel like in 2022 this novel shows me more than ever before what I wanted the new movies to be.I enjoyed meeting the children of some classic characters, and the return of the characters themselves, older but not necessarily more mature. I especially enjoyed the return of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon on the side of many of his former enemies, and discovering his (Hebrew) first name, having missed it if it appeared in earlier books. The biggest thing about most licensed media is the author's inability to make drastic change, and while I've been afforded this luxury in Green Lama novels, for the longest time many of the characters in the Star Wars universe were forced to live an ultimately "safe" world. Luke/Han/Leia would always survive, so would their friends and family. It made the novels feel unimportant, because, really, what's the point of them if at the end of the day the heroes win and nothing was really at stake? 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... Another positive note: Jacen Solo once again displays his tendency to think for himself. In this first-in-a-series title, you might wonder whether this time it's going to lead him into the kind of consequences he hasn't had to regret so far. Completists (not a word, I know) will find it reminiscent of Traitor, but not close to the same class.

Records and activities that did not make sense, double agents and sleepers, lies, danger, and ultimately, implied threats against his family ... but Bagley's calling as a researcher and his deep desire to know the truth would not allow him to let go of this search until he found the truth.But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic” – I want my fiction to be entertaining. "