Well, this is it. My all time least favorite Star Wars novel. Not to say anything bad about Barbara Hambly, but this is just not a very strong story. It does tie into some novels in the New Jedi Order series, but it just doesn't fit very well into the mold that other authors have created.
The story follows Luke on the hunt for yet another of Emperor Palpatine's super-weapons. This time, it's a converted asteroid that has been made into a warship. The weapon, The Eye of Palpatine, is traveling the galaxy and gathering troops to wipeout a Jedi enclave where, supposedly, Jedi children live. The first question to be asked is how Jedi children could've remained hidden for 29 years after Darth Vader initiated the Jedi Purge. The second question to be asked is where the Imperial remnant keeps finding all of Palpatine's super-weapons.
Luke just doesn't feel like Luke in this story, and also, he sustains some pretty nasty injuries and he just gets up and keeps going, even after considerable loss of blood. Also, Hambly spends a lot of time telling the reader how Luke's Force focus is interrupted because of the pain. It feels like filler to me.
There is a nice surpirse at the end of the book. And Hambly does create a good, recurring character in Callista, a former Jedi who loses her connectiong to the Force.
Re-readability: 6.7
Final Grade: C-
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