Star Wars: Book of Sith ) Author: Visit Amazon's Daniel Wallace Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1452118159 | Format: PDF
Star Wars: Book of Sith ) Description
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" It's smartly written, there's a great running joke about the Sith'ari and the illustrations are frequently excellent."
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About the Author
Daniel Wallace is the author of many books, including Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters and Star Wars: The Jedi Path. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Series: Star Wars (Chronicle)
- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books; International edition (April 16, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1452118159
- ISBN-13: 978-1452118154
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I ordered the Jedi Path and Book of Sith as a pre-order bundle. They arrived yesterday (4/22/13) and I read them both that evening. I enjoyed both books, but the Book of Sith is the superior of the two.
The book is broken up into several sections; each section has a different page format, making it truly look like a compendium of different books. The book itself is about the size of a standard journal. The cover is made from red leather, which is a step up from the canvas cover of The Jedi Path.
After an introduction by Darth Sidious, we begin with the journal of Sorzus Syn, one of the original Dark Lords of the Sith whom was banished by the Jedi following the Hundred-Year Darkness who provides her own history, the history of the Sith species (known as Sith Purebloods) and the make-up of the Sith Empire at that time. Next comes a field journal written by Darth Malgus (from the Old Republic MMO), which goes into Malgus's disgust of the Sith Empire's self-serving bureaucracy, which dovetails nicely into ... Darth Bane (my favorite Sith Lord) who instituted the Rule of Two after the fall of the Brotherhood of Darkness (the incarnation of the Sith Empire during his era). Even if you've read the Darth Bane novel trilogy, this section presents a fresh first-person perspective from the man himself.
Mother Talzin's section is the low-point of the book. Sidious explains including this section even though the Nightsisters are obviously not Sith because their insights are worth preserving, but both the content and the artwork in this section are the worst of the book. The artwork is made up of mostly of photo shopped cosplayers dressed up as Nightsisters (and Nightbrothers) photo shopped to give them force abilities.
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