A review by verkisto
Backlash by Aaron Allston
3.0
This is another solid, "Yep, that's a Star Wars" book, which is a little misleading, since I'm enjoying the series overall. It's an interesting coda to the Legacy of the Force series, since it's about getting answers to questions left after its conclusion. It's also about the natural progression of the galaxy after a power vacuum has been left behind, which is also pretty cool. The three authors (Allston, Golden, and Denning) are doing a good job of it all.
Bringing the Sith race back, though, is odd to me. It seems like a last-ditch effort to bring something new to the EU (which I suspect no one realized was coming to an end at the time). It was even more odd because I read these books in chronological order, so Lost Tribe of the Sith was one of the first books I read when I started reading the EU books, and now feels like ancient history. That book was actually a prequel for this series, originally released just before Fate of the Jedi. This is just further evidence that I need to read the canon novels in publication order so I have a proper sense of the worldbuilding.
Bringing the Sith race back, though, is odd to me. It seems like a last-ditch effort to bring something new to the EU (which I suspect no one realized was coming to an end at the time). It was even more odd because I read these books in chronological order, so Lost Tribe of the Sith was one of the first books I read when I started reading the EU books, and now feels like ancient history. That book was actually a prequel for this series, originally released just before Fate of the Jedi. This is just further evidence that I need to read the canon novels in publication order so I have a proper sense of the worldbuilding.