immediately after the end of Path of Destruction, and follows Darth Bane and his new apprentice, Darth Zannah, as they try to correct the past mistakes of the Sith. Star Wars fans, expecially those who follow the stories of the expanded universe, know that Bane reorganized the Sith, and in the course of this reorganization, he was covered in a parasite called orbalisks. These creature amplified his Force power, but were slowly killing him. So over the course of this book we see Bane gain the creatures, and then have them removed in very painful fashion.Also, one of the most important events in this novel is Bane's attempt to make a Sith Holocron, a repository of Dark Side knowledge. He fails on more than one attempt.
Once again, though, Karpyshyn falls into the trap of trying to marry the old storyline with the new, and in so doing creates a character that is a Chiss, a species that is not discovered in the Star Wars chronology until about six years after the events of The Phantom Menace, in other words, nearly a thousand years after this story takes place.
It's hard to fault Karpyshyn for this, though, because he's trying to weave together a story between two established timelines, and he's trying his darnedest to keep everything in order. Naturally, some things will slip through the cracks. Overall, though, this story is more enjoyable than Path of Destruction, but I think that comes from now having an established character in Darth Bane.
Re-readability: 9.0
Final Grade: B+
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