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Dec 15, 2016Chinderixx rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I decided to read this because I heard that this was the beginning of Jacen's turn to dark side. Since I have read some of the other books from The New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force, I thought it might make more sense. For being a smaller book, there is surprisingly a lot I can say about it. I'll start off first with things I found interesting. There are only five main characters in this story and Luke, Han, and Leia are not part of the cast of characters. They are not actually in this book, but Traitor is the only New Jedi Order book that doesn't include them. I noticed from reading other Star Wars books by Matthew Stover like Shadows of Mindor and the Revenge of The Sith novelization that he writes epilogues that are almost identical to the prologues. In this book, Stover writes a prologue that is used again in the end with more added onto it, which you realize in the end is incredibly important to the whole story. During this whole novel, you see people who are crazy and start going crazy. Jacen is one of those people. In the beginning, he seems strong and resists the Nazi-Aztec torture the Yuuzhan Vong put him through and you're almost sure that he is going to find a way to escape the pain he is in and the place the Yuuzhan Vong are keeping him. He does escape both of those but not in the way I had hoped he would. Vergere, who is probably the most important character is this book, has her own agenda and gets Jacen to listen and think about her confusing riddles and Shakespearean questions. Because of this, Jacen starts going crazy, and begins to do dark side things. Even though Jacen's slow turn to the Dark side is sad, and some parts of this book are sometimes confusing or unclear, I did actually like this book. I think that it was very interesting and well written, and I think that this book has a much deeper meaning than being just about Jacen and his slow descent into darkness.