Star Wars: Darth Bane Dynasty of Evil Book Review
Star Wars: Darth Bane – Dynasty of Evil, was written by New York Times Bestselling Author, Drew Karpyshyn. This novel is the eleventh event on the Legends novel timeline. This tale takes place during the Old Republic Era, it also counts as book three, in the Darth Bane trilogy. It takes place 980 years before A New Hope.
SUMMARY
Dynasty of Evil is a bigger tale, introducing many new characters with multiple agendas. That said, I will focus primarily on the Darth Bane and Darth Zannah aspect of the story.
Darth Bane grows weary and anxious. Age is finding its place in Bane’s body and mind. His obsession with the dark side is ever present. He’s tired of waiting for his apprentice to take her rightful place as the master. He believes Darth Zannah will sit by, idly waiting for her master to die before taking the role. And that’s not the way of the Sith. Bane comes to the conclusion that if his apprentice will not do her duty, he will seek out the secrets of immortality and find a replacement. Meanwhile, there is another, out to seek and destroy the Bane. A child from the past, now grown and granted with the power of royalty.
Zannah senses the weakness in her master. She sees his growing frustration as he attempts his own holocron creation. She’s on the search for her apprentice, she knows her time to take on Bane is near.
To sum it all up into a few words, the theme of this final tale; a quest for revenge, power, and healing.
CHARACTERS
This book has a handful of great characters once again. In my review of Path of Destruction, I did not mention Bane in this section. In this review, I’ll only talk about Bane..
Bane: Free of the Orbalisk parasites, he’s become obsessed with creating his own holocron! The wear of age is catching up to Sith Master. The uncontrollable twitch in his nerves is irritating and a reminder of his mortality. Bane is one of the best villains I’ve read about. He’s wise, he’s powerful, yet vulnerable at times. He’s had many failures throughout his life. The path he chose, or rather, was forced into, eventually led him to the dark side. How would he have ended up, had he not got into that fight with republic soldiers so many years ago? Back when his name was Dessel. He is certainly worthy of the name, Darth Bane.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
I think Drew Karpyshyn is a master of character development. The arch in each character, either new in this book or the few that have remained since the beginning is crazy good. Darth Zannah’s journey through the dark side is drastically different than Bane’s. While you can argue that Bane’s path to the dark side was more of a tragic accident. Zannah made the choice to follow Bane’s teachings. When she was left on her own to find her way off Ruusan as a child… she did so. Had she not craved the power, she would have never returned to Bane. Darth Zannah is an incredible Sith, with a frightening power.
This final chapter in the Bane trilogy doesn’t fizzle out. No, it’s exciting, tense, and explosive. If I had to recommend you only read just one series in the Star Wars Legends canon… the Bane trilogy is definitely the series I demand you read.
Do I recommend you read Star Wars: Darth Bane – Dynasty of Evil? Of course I do,. I just said so!
RATING
I give this book an A. It was (99%) almost everything I wanted in this wrap up story of Darth Bane.
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