Review #9: Star Wars: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen

The Unseen Queen is the second outing in the Dark Nest Trilogy by Troy Denning. The story follows our heroes as they travel once more into the dark waters surrounding the Killik expansion. As part of a side story, Leia has been searching for a new planet that the Ithorians can call home, even since Ithor was destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong. She finds a planet, but as she, Han and Luke explore it a bit, they find that their enemies are already there, and even worse, an nanobot-style destroyer thing is there as well, and it begins to rapidly decay anything metallic that touches the planet. Our heroes have to beat a hasty retreat.

Denning writes very well. He's created some very endearing characters, Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne being one of them. Saba begins training Leia, who finally finds enough time away from the government to handle her Jedi training, although she's about 60 years old now.

All that being said, I really didn't like this book. As second acts go, it falls a bit short of the Star Wars legacy.

Re-readability: 7.5
Final Grade: C-