Name: Into the Void
ISBN: 9780345541932

Tim Lebbon

A stand-alone tie-in to the successful comic book series, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi reveals the origins of the Jedi Order on the remote world of Tython, where ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge of the Force while colonizing a dangerous new homeworld. By the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Echo City. Video game tie-in.

Into the Void

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok. 

A simple story of a family torn apart and pretty much the adventures of a Lanoree, a Jedi who's traveling around getting into trouble. 

What I liked: A nice little story, well written characters and fun to read with its good and bad moments.

What I didn't like: No use of the Star Wars lore at all. This was supposed to be the origin of the origins of the whole thing and how it all started but that lasted for a few pages and then we go 200 years to the future or something reading about the adventures of Jedi that could very well be placed in any place throughout the Star Wars timeline. 

I mean, this is supposed to be the DAWN of the Jedi, and we're reading here about a generic story that takes place AFTER the so called dawn, and that was a bit disappointing. 

And last but not least, my other problem was that Lanoree was this young Jedi who got called back from all the Jedi Masters and all the wise and the teachers and all that shit, to be told that she has to go find her long lost missing for dead brother and may or may not have to stop and kill him. Really Jedi Masters? You have a serious dangerous threat to end Jedi life as you know it and the first thing to do is to call back a young Jedi from her adventures out there in the galaxy and tell her, "Hey, go find your brother who you thought was dead, and also, kill him." So. Damn. Wise. #Not

Other than that, the story as I said was ok, but nothing to write home about, and the ending was a bit obvious and nothing you haven't read before.

A stand-alone tie-in to the successful comic book series, 'Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi' reveals the origins of the Jedi Order on the remote world of Tython, where ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge of the Force while colonizing a dangerous new homeworld.

Taran Snodgress

Shelved: Did Not Finish

I had the idea to read all the books in the Legends canon chronologically, starting with this one. I've read and enjoyed a number of Star Wars books before, and I recognize that most of them are fairly mediocre, so that usually doesn't bother me. I made it about halfway through before giving up on this one though. The writing is bad at its high points and abysmal everywhere else, the characters are flat and uninteresting, and the story provides little to no motivation for the action. The story goes back and forth between the main character tracking down her long lost brother (who she thought was dead, until surprise! he isn't) and the two siblings training to be Jedi as young children. For some reason, the author decided to put the current action in past tense and the flashbacks in present tense. 

As a long time Star Wars fan, it also bothers me that a book titled "Dawn of the Jedi" doesn't bother to actually tell the story of the founding of the Jedi Order, but instead is a story set at a random point in the chronology. There's a reason there weren't any more books in this series, and its because this one was so bad.

Sans

Well it only took me a month, but I did it. Finished on this during the first leg of my flights today. I’m on mobile so just a short review I think, with apologies for typos. 

I love the idea behind this. A time where Sith and Jedi were the same: Force users utilizing both dark and light to Get Shit Done. What I did not like was Lanoree. She was fine, there wasn’t any specific thing I can point to about her that set me on edge. I simply didn’t find her empathetic or engaging.

But maybe that was the point. She did good things and bad things and wasn’t there to make friends. She did her job and that’s all she was there to do. 

I do wish we could have learned more about the depths of the Old City and what, if anything was waiting down there. I was also lost on a few points. No one has hyperdrives at all? That’s what Dal was building, yes? Were the Gree like the Architects from the Alien prequel? Where precisely is Tython located in terms of The Republic? Core, Mid or Outer Rim, Unknown Regions? Was that a vision of Vader or Revan or...?

It’s too bad all of this history was relegated to AU fanfic when Disney took over, there are so many more paths to explore in the galaxy’s ancient history.