Favorite Stand-Alone SW "Legends" Novels?

[Hortex]

Anyone have a suggestion for a Star Wars novel from the now-"Legends" series? I know they all fit into a massive timeline, but I don't have the time to read a trilogy or 19 book series. What are your favorites and why?

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

Has to be "I, Jedi" - seeing the Star Wars Universe from the perspective of someone like Corran Horn (trainee Jedi, yet hardened pilot and former CorSec Officer) gives a lot of life to the whole thing. Aside from offering a lot of insight into the Jedi in their post-ROTJ days, I think he has some of the strongest character development found in any single book.

Beyond that, "Traitor" in the NJO series is just a superb book. The Unifying Force is introduced here in a staggering way, and it offers a wonderfully-contrasting approach to the whole Jedi/Sith problem, Jacen Solo being trained as a mixture of both (although his teacher, Vergere, is only spoken of as Sith about 10-12 books down the line, and even then not directly admitted as such) - essentially pushing the reader towards the conclusion that the Light/Dark Dichotomy is complete nonsense when taken against the Force as a whole. Really, really fantastic book. Very philosophical, and insightful.

 

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The Republic Commando series. Less Jedi, more soldier action, and a whole lot more Mando influence. It has a more mature take on the clone wars, and covers Order 66, the brotherhood between clone commandos, the short time after the order came down, and a bunch of other stuff in between. There's only a few books in the series, and they're definitely my favorites.

Out of those my favorites has to be Triple Zero. Set right in the middle of the Clone Wars, with an RC op pinned against a terrorist group on Coruscant. There's a lot of Jedi hate from the characters and the author down the line, but it's still superb if you enjoy a story about the little guys.

 

[NimanMaster]

Thrawn Trilogy, Tarkin, Darth Plagueis, Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Outbound Flight.

 

[Vaulkhar]

Fatal Alliance is pretty alright if you ask me. Not entirely sure if that's in the time you're looking at, but it's good.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

Fatal Alliance is pretty alright if you ask me. Not entirely sure if that's in the time you're looking at, but it's good.

It's certainly an interesting work....

The Thrawn Trilogy and Duology are excellent, though rather out of date with the rest of legends canon. Darth Plageius is great.

 

[Teynara Jeralyr]

Plagieus really was excellent. A good insight into the nature of the Sith, and certainly Palpatine's rise to power. James Luceno is an excellent writer - but, I must admit, it did feel more like it was the Rise of Sidious rather than Plagieus. Only the first third of the book really belongs to the Muun.

 

[Rusty]

I cannot recommend I, Jedi highly enough. Out of all the Star Wars novels, it stands out as one of the best. It's not perfect by any means, but it's an excellent adventure and also does a lot to clean up the mess left behind about the early days of Luke's Jedi order.

 

[Selena Halcyon]

essentially pushing the reader towards the conclusion that the Light/Dark Dichotomy is complete nonsense when taken against the Force as a whole. Really, really fantastic book. Very philosophical, and insightful.

How can you logically come to that conclusion when Jacen falls clearly to the darkside in a hard way and loses his mind because of it? I mean seriously... it was obviously the talk was meant to justify actions instead of going about things the harder more difficult way.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

I loved the book Darth Plagueis, but I never really got into his overly scientific view of the Force.

 

[Darth Kentarch]

For me the best book was Path of Destruction as it highlighted the training and philosophy of the Sith, new and old.