This book takes place 1,000 years before the films, and it explaines why Darth Bane reinstated the rule of two. Also explaines the force from view point of the Sith. Drew Karpyshyn does a excellent job of developing Bane as a character. This is a must read for Star War fans.

If I would have looked alittle harder, I probably would have known this book was written by one of the main writers of Knights of the Old Republic, which still stands in my mind as one of the greatest RPGs ever.

Of course this would have made little difference, as I bought the book anyways.

It was a great little book; a fairly quick read of a story that is being retold here, but in a very competent fashion. I eaily found myself getting into characters, even some that would only walk on stage long enough to love before leaving the narrative for good.

My only complaint about the book is an abundance of subtle (and occasionally not-so-subtle) winks back to the KoTOR material, but while they can seem self gratifying at times, they never truly ditract from the over feel of the story.

It is truly an easy b ook to recommend to any fans of Star Wars, or Jedi.

A have just recently started reading more of the Star Wars books and this was a great starting place. It does not require much knowledge of the series to be enjoyable. I highly recommend this book for any fan of sci-fi.

I did enjoy reading about the Old Republic. I hope some of the other Star Wars writers do more with this era. That being said I could not get into the book as much as I would have liked. I did not like the fact that the book was "all" about the Syth. The Syth are evil and it is just not my thing. I want to read about the Jedi of that ara, but the book was 90% Syth. If you enjoy the Dark Side of the Force this will be right up your ally.

I think the book was rather well done, but there are some flaws. I enjoy seeing that the book has you caught up enough in the character that you feel for him and you root for him even knowing if is really a 'bad guy'. The beginning depicting the origin of his hatred and how the 'other side' see's the Jedi and the Republic is refreshing and is a good antithesis to the usual books which are from the 'good' point-of-view. There are however, several parts that are kind of disappointing and the ending of the epilogue is so deus-ex-machina as to be completely unbelievable and ridiculous. Overall a good read, but I have read better star wars books.