Knight Errant: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars: Legends)

by John Jackson Miller

A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away . . .

The Republic is in crisis. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. 

But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who intends to be its destroyer; the curious siblings Quillan and Dromika; the enigmatic Arkadia. So many warring Sith weaving a patchwork of brutality—with only Kerra Holt to defend the innocents caught underfoot.

Sensing a sinister pattern in the chaos, Kerra embarks on a journey that will take her into fierce battles against even fiercer enemies. With one against so many, her only chance of success lies with forging alliances among those who serve her enemies—including a mysterious Sith spy and a clever mercenary general. But will they be her adversaries or her salvation?

• ISBN10: 0345522648
• ISBN13: 9780345522641
• Publish Date: 25 January 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Random House Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780345522641

Reviews

[ladygrey]

This was an interesting book in terms of stakes.

Just by looking at the timeline (just inside the cover, before the story) I knew the Sith were going to rule for another thousand years.

Which meant nothing Kerra Holt did would matter in the grand scheme.

So it needed to matter in the microcosm - she can't save the galaxy but it's important she saves this one person or this group of people.

Which means I need to care about that person or that group of people, so the reader is also invested in their survival.

But I wasn't. Most of the characters had practically no personality. A few (the bumbley kid and the captain) had like 30% of a personality. I didn't really emotionally care about any of the characters.

And so nothing Kerra Holt did the whole book mattered much to me. I only kept reading because he strung the mystery along quite nicely to support the plot.

Also this great character, Kerra Holt, that they think I should follow into graphic novels and other books and whatever, had like 25% of a personality.

She wasn't really interesting. And a lot of times she was contradictory ('all Sith are bad, always, bad, bad' then 'well maybe I shouldn't kill this character because sure they're Sith but they seem so nice'). I just couldn't get invested in her at all.

All that being said, I didn't much care about the characters but the plot moved along quite nicely and was well paced with the turn of events and the uncovering of mysteries. It wasn't a bad book, just not what I'm used to. Which is mostly why I wanted to read it anyway.