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

by John Jackson Miller

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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.