I’ve been waiting for someone to address this since the Myrkr mission practically fell apart all the way back in The New Jedi Order. What do you do with a candidate who thinks he or she is ready to be a Jedi but is missing elements that will make him or her a good Jedi? In Crucible a group of Jedi Masters are wondering if expulsion of a candidate is an option. Luke’s Jedi Order has already done this a few times, but here they’re finally addressing it, trying to figure out what they can do differently to prevent it from happening again. One of these was the idea of potentially training future enemies. The story poses two challenges for the Jedi Order, which I found fascinating. Until she got wishy-washy and lost all her confidence, she was hands-down the strongest villain in the book. I haven’t been her biggest fan, but I was oddly proud of her here. She surprised me with how dedicated she was to her Sith ways. I like the little moments that illustrate how in sync they are, how easily they read each other, and how clear their love is. I love that Han and Leia are still going strong after all these years. Though it was mainly a painful read, the book had some good qualities. It’s as if he included some of the trippiest and most graphically violent activities I’ve ever read in Star Wars to I see if I could physically keep hold of the book and make it through until the end. This book makes me feel like I played a game of chicken with Troy Denning.
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