Star Wars: The Darkness

Adventures In Wild Space: Book IV

Star Wars: Adventures In Wild Space – The Darkness was written by Tom Huddleston. This book is part four in an ongoing young readers series.

SUMMARY: Lina and Milo Graf, still on the search for their parents, thought they had found a trustworthy partner, to assist in the tracking down their parents, who were taken by the Empire.

The Imperial, Captain Korda, hadhired a bounty hunter to find the pesky children and bring them to him. Too bad for the kids, the one they put their trust into, happens to be the bounty hunter! Shalla Mondatha is in fact, The Shade.

The children are captured and thrown into a cell on The Shade’s ship. More prisoners are brought on board the ship, making the journey a frightening one for the children, especially when the power is shut off.

Part of the cargo contains big crates marked “Cylo.” A crate containing cybernetic spiders that feed on power-cells broke open. This event causes the ship to go quite, in the darkness. Now the kids have to gamble on which other prisoner will be an ally… or an enemy.

CHARACTERS: Because this young readers novel is very short, I’m only going to mention one character.

The Cylo cybernetic spiders: They are pretty interesting creatures/creations. A bit annoying, but prove to be an ominous threat as they can drain power sources. The Last place they should be roaming, is a ship drifting through space.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: This book was good. In my opinion it’s not as good as the previous book. It really shows how crazy and unpredictable the galaxy can be. These kids just can’t win. Choosing who they can trust has become a dangerous game.

The villains in this book were odd, the Cylo spiders were a cool idea. Really like how this young reader book has a connection to the Darth Vader comic. The other villain is ok, a real trickster. I won’t mention who it is, because I’m reaming spoiler free.

I don’t like the way The Shade was handled in the book, could have made a lot better use out of here. Hopefully she’ll get the spotlight again in one of the other Adventures in Wild Space books.

Do I recommend you read, Adventures in Wild Space: The Darkness? If you’ve read the previous books in the series… yes.

RATING: I give this book a 2.5 out of 5