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Yoda: Dark Rendezvous: Star Wars Legends Paperback – May 23, 2023
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The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of the battle, one Jedi Knight escapes the carnage to deliver a message to Yoda on Coruscant. It appears that Dooku wants peace and demands a rendezvous. Chances are slim that the treacherous Count is sincere but, with a million lives at stake, Yoda has no choice.
The meeting will take place on Vjun, a planet steeped in evil. The challenge could not be more difficult. Can Yoda win back his once promising pupil from the dark side or will Count Dooku unleash his sinister forces against his former mentor? Either way, Yoda is sure of one thing: this battle will be one of the fiercest he’ll ever face.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRandom House Worlds
- Publication dateMay 23, 2023
- Dimensions5.45 x 0.65 x 8.22 inches
- ISBN-100593599489
- ISBN-13978-0593599488
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The sun was setting on Coruscant. Shadows ran like black water, filling up the the alleys first, then climbing steadily higher, a tide of darkness rising to drown the capital. Twilight’s gloom spread over retail districts and medcenters, and crept like a dark stain up the walls of the Chancellor’s residence as the sun slipped below the horizon. Soon only the rooftops were gilded with the day’s last yellow light; then the shadows conquered them, too, swarming up the pinnacles of the Senate Building and the spires of the Jedi Temple. The long day of the Republic had come to an end.
Dusk on Coruscant.
On a moonless night a million standard years earlier, perhaps even before the rise of sentient beings, sunset would have meant darkness absolute, except for the distant burn of the stars. Not now. Even during galactic war, Coruscant was still the blazing heart of the greatest civilization in the history of the galaxy. As the sun retreated, the great city began to sparkle with innumerable lights. Speeders darted between tall towers like glowflies dancing in meadows of transparisteel. Signs flared to life along every street, blinking bright promises at evening passersby. Lights came on in the windows of apartments and stores and offices.
So life goes on despite the gathering dark, Senator Padmé Amidala thought, looking out her window. Each individual life burning bravely, like a candle raised against the night. She kept her eyes on the spaceport landing platform nearest to the Jedi Temple. “It isn’t a luxury,” she said.
A handmaiden turned to look at her, puzzled. “Pardon?”
“Hope. It isn’t a luxury. It’s our duty,” Padmé said.
The handmaiden started to stammer a reply, but Padmé cut her off. “Someone’s landing,” she said.
A ship settled like a dragonfly on the landing platform nearest to the Temple, lights burning at its tail and wingtips. Padmé grabbed for a pair of macrobinoculars and tabbed the night-vision settings, trying to read the designation on the courier’s battle-scarred side. Searching the hooded figure climbing from the cockpit.
“M’lady?”
Slowly Padmé put the macrobinoculars aside. “It’s not him,” she said.
Chief Technician Boz Addle loved all the ships in his care, but he had a special affection for the sleek couriers. He ran a gloved hand along the metal flank of the Hoersch-Kessel Seltaya-class fast courier Limit of Vision that had just come home. “Electrical sparking, meteorite pocking, a couple of laser cannon burns,” he murmured. His hand paused over a nasty gash where part of the ship’s protective laminate had boiled away, showing a mass of fused wiring studded with shrapnel. “And uness I miss my guess, you took a few proton hits to boot.”
Jedi Master Jai Maruk clambered out of the cockpit. His face was gaunt, stitched with shrapnel cuts, and puckered by a bad burn that lay in a bar of charred flesh across his cheek. Half healed on the frantic trip home, the burned skin had bubbled and turned stiff, pulling up one corner of his mouth. The chief technician regarded him gravely. “You promised you’d bring my ship back without a scratch, Master Maruk.”
Grim smile. “I lied.”
The duty medic bustled forward. “Let me check you out.” He paused, squinting more closely at the slashing burn mark on the Jedi’s cheek. “Master Maruk! What—”
“There’s no time for that now. I must speak to the Jedi Council at once—as many as can be found, anyway.”
“But Master Maruk—”
The Jedi waved him off. “Forgive me, medic, but now is not the time. I have a message to deliver that cannot wait, and I have been left, very much on purpose, in good enough shape to deliver it.” Again the grim smile. He strode away, pausing only at the docking bay doors. “Chief Boz,” he said more gently.
“Yes, Master?”
“Sorry about the ship.”
The medic and the chief technician stood side by side on the landing platform and watched him leave. “Lightsaber burns?” Boz asked.
The medic nodded, wide-eyed.
The chief tech spat thoughtfully on the deck. “Thought so.”
The Clone Wars like a mighty hand had flung Jedi throughout the stars, leaving only a few senior Jedi Knights in the Temple at any time. Yoda, of course, as Master of the Order and military adviser to the Chancellor, was nearly always on Coruscant. Tonight only two others had joined him to hear Jai Maruk’s story: Jai Maruk’s close friend Master Ilena Xan, nicknamed Iron Hand by the students—she taught hand-to-hand combat, and her specialty was joint locks—and Jedi Council member Mace Windu, who was too intimidating for nicknames.
“We were running recon in the Outer Rim,” Jai said. “Began to think there was something funny going on in the neighborhood of the Hydian Way. Little drab transports kept popping up, like a mermyn-trail leading into and out of the Wayland region. Nothing so unusual about that, the Trade Federation has the whole region locked down . . . but these were popping in from strange coordinates. Deep-space vectors, not local traffic. I got a funny feeling about them, so I dressed up one of the clone transports in pirate’s colors and sent it to intercept. Turned out that little commercial shuttle had legs on it like a Neimoidian jakrab. Dropped down a burst of plasma fire and jumped to hyperspace in a heartbeat.”
Master Yoda’s wrinkled brow rose. “In a nerf’s coat, this krayt dragon was.”
“Exactly.” Master Jai Maruk glanced down at his right hand, which was trembling. An ugly char mark was burned across his palm. He regarded the hand steadily. The trembling stopped.
A young Padawan, a red-haired girl of perhaps fourteen, came into the room with a pitcher of water and some glasses on a tray. Bowing, she placed them on a low table. Master Xan poured a tumbler of water and gave it to Jai. He stared at the glassy, oozing skin on the palm of his burned hand, forced it to curl around the tumbler, and drank.
“So the Trade Federation was shipping something important into the Hydian Way,” Jai continued. “Why? Not new ordnance; we don’t have any significant troop concentrations out there. And why the disguise? They could wear their fleet colors proudly—it would scare off any pirates or casual raiders, like my poor clone troopers had pretended to be.”
“There has to be something there we aren’t supposed to know about,” Ilena said.
Mace Windu studied the lightsaber burns on Jai Maruk’s cheek. “Or someone.”
Yoda tapped out a pattern on the Council Chamber floor with his cane. “One of these krayts, followed it did you.”
“But you were caught,” Mace said.
Jai’s face tightened. “I tracked them to a rendezvous on Vjun.”
Master Yoda stirred and shook his head. The others looked to him. “Strong in the dark side, Vjun is,” he murmured. “Know you the stories?”
They looked at him blankly.
The corners of Yoda’s mouth turned down. “A trial of being old is this: remembering which thing one has said into which young ears. But he knows; I remember we spoke of it when he was only a Padawan . . .”
The other Jedi stared. “Who knows?” Master Xan asked.
Yoda waved the question off with his stick. “It matters not. Master Maruk, continue.”
Jai took another sip of water. “At first I remained sunside, hidden from my krayt, but when it stayed dirtside for longer than just refueling, I had to risk following it to the surface. I made a soft landing many kilometers away, I kept my heat and IR signatures crushed down, I swear it—” He slowed to a stop. His hand was trembling again. “It doesn’t matter. She caught me.”
“She?” Master Xan asked.
“Asajj Ventress.”
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- Publisher : Random House Worlds (May 23, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593599489
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593599488
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.45 x 0.65 x 8.22 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #169,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #360 in Classic Action & Adventure (Books)
- #3,696 in Space Operas
- #5,760 in Science Fiction Adventures
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Sean Stewart is the author of twelve novels, including Resurrection Man, a book that starts with someone doing an autopsy on himself, and Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, the only Star Wars book truly focused on the Master. His books have collected many honors, including the World Fantasy Award for Galveston.
He is also one of the world’s most influential digital storytellers. As a writer, designer and producer he co-created the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) genre of online entertainment, and served as the lead writer on I Love Bees for Halo 2 and the Year Zero collaboration with Nine Inch Nails. He wrote the world’s first transmedia novel, the international best-seller Cathy’s Book, and won a Primetime Emmy for the transmedia comedy Dirty Work.
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Customers say the storyline is enjoyable, and one of the better Star Wars books. They find the writing style excellent, with philosophical stuff and deep, developed characters. Readers also mention the book is an amusing read with excellent prose and philosophical stuff.
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Customers find the storyline interesting, likable, and great. They also appreciate the good background on Dooku and Yoda. Overall, customers say the book is not a bad Star Wars book.
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A rare look into Yoda in the midst of the Clone Wars with a sprinkle of Obi Wan and Anakin.
Sean Scott is a breath of fresh air for the Star Wars universe.
Scout was a standout character for me; I originally bought this book because I'm desperate for anything involving Asajj Ventress (she's my favorite), but I found Scout to be incredibly endearing without becoming annoying. I'm biased, but I would have liked to have seen more of what became of Asajj, but that's for another book. I really enjoyed getting to see a little into Dooku's head and simultaneously more into Yoda's immense power that's often talked about but rarely shown. When Dooku's scared of something, you know you'd better be as well.
What was especially nice about this story is the look inside the daily goings-on of the Jedi Temple. After nearly a full year of immersing myself into SW lore, the Temple always remained a very cut-off place for me. Sure, it's central to a lot of things and home to the "good guys", but what exactly goes on inside those walls? What do the children do everyday? Does the concept of fun even exist in there? As it turns out, yes it does. And you don't know how happy it made me to read the parts involving the tournament and how very much like a regular school it is for the Padawans.
I give this four stars instead of five because even though I think she was given some good dialogue, I really would have liked to have seen Ventress as more than a lapdog to Dooku. She's an amazingly layered character who's very rarely given the chance to be shown as more than an evil creature of the Dark Side. I liked her conversation with Dooku from her ship, but their first meeting left me wanting. Also, the ending was brought about too quickly. The idea of Dooku seriously contemplating turning his back on the Sith in incredibly appealing, but then it's dashed when a certain pair show up and his jealousy overrides everything he'd been thinking about and planning for weeks. At least throw in a few lines to deal with that instead of just ending it there.
Despite this, Sean Stewart does a good job writing a young adult Star Wars novel that engages in interesting character development and has a unique voice. We see far more character development in this book for Dooku and Yoda than in the entire Clone Wars TV series. We learn a bit about their past and how they think. Admittedly, in terms of screentime, Dooku and Yoda aren't the main characters of the book, but their relationship drives the story. There are a few scenes in which I think Yoda comes off as too much of an impish gnome, but he also has some genuinely heartwarming pieces of wisdom - just like Yoda from Empire Strikes Back.
The rest of the Jedi come across as rounded characters more than capable of carrying the story. Whie and Scout, and their masters, Jai Maruk and Maks Leem, have their strengths and weaknesses. Their characters have multiple layers. I particularly liked how Stewart switches narrative points of view, allowing or own view of each character to grow and change.
I do like the way Stewart uses narrative voice in the book. The narrator is more active than in most Star Wars novels. Some of the passages have a lyrical quality. The narrator sometimes dishes out pieces of wisdom or astute observations about characters. It makes what is a relatively simple story and gives it more thoughtful content.
Overall, this is not a bad Star Wars book. It's obviously geared towards younger readers, but I suspect adults who are light of heart will enjoy it as well. We certainly learn more about Dooku and Yoda than in any other single Star Wars EU book out there.
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Dark Rendezvous is a good action adventure novel and will statisfy any fan of the Star Wars universe. If you have a casuel interest in Star Wars it also stands on it's own so it's very accessable.
Dark Rendezvous doesn't appear to be easy to get so buy it now before it's out of print.
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