A review by rhganci
Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn

4.0

Luke makes me think of the Jedi that Anakin might have been. When he’s fighting the stormtroopers with Mara, he wants to do everything to stop them, but he views killing them as a last resort. He’s a hero, and perhaps the purest hero of all time. Optimistic, good, and humble. I love him in his black suit and green lightsaber, though I find myself imagining him wearing traditional Jedi threads. Zahn patterns the endings of this trilogy in a reminiscent manner of the classic film trilogy: The first time, the good guys win. The second time, the bad guys win. I think it’s a foregone conclusion that the third, time, there won’t be a next time.