Into the Void: Star Wars Legends (Dawn of the Jedi)

First off; this isn't the Dawn of the Jedi. From "Dawn" you might expect the first Force-sensitive becoming conscious of their power and beginning to forge a sense of their religion. What you get is a slightly different spelling, real swords instead of laser swords and rangers instead of knights. There's already a Jedi Council and they're already the self-appointed guardians of their little universe. We're well past dawn here and more just-clocking-in-at-work. That's not to say that makes it a bad book, just not the one you might expect.What does make it a bad book - or at least a less good one - is just how flat everything is. Despite plenty of action, it just doesn't have any impetus. It's not badly written and yet there's just something lacking that makes you bothered about getting to the end.Maybe, as others have noted, it's that the central character isn't particularly likeable. A flawed hero is all well and good but throughout it feels like Lanoree is in the wrong: a self-superior bully who's probably responsible for making the bad guy the way he is.Maybe that's the intention: her morality's so dubious it feels like this could have been "Dawn of the Sith". There's plenty of possibility hinted at here that could have taken a series somewhere if it had been given time to grow but because of the Disney buy out, that'll never happen. That means, with its isolated setting, this doesn't feel part of the Star Wars universe; it's a rogue entry in a Star Wars style.It also has the recent trend for characters striving for "balance" in the force which always bugs me. Ever since George Lucas threw it into the movies, we've moved away from good vs evil into nonsense where we're supposed to root for whatever "balance" is supposed to be. Exploring the blurred lines between good and evil is one thing but actively striving for 50% good 50% evil is just gibberish. I don't think they've understood the eastern philosophy this idea is based on and if they havent got the chops, they should leave well alone.It's a general fault, not specific to Dawn, but something that turns me off a lot of the newer entries, this one included. Dawn's big fault is just that there's not enough to love or even like about it. It's just... flat.

some of the other reviews have suggested this could have been better and I would agree, the chance was here to expand on early days of the jedi and how they came about and what they were all about and how they developed etc. what we got here was a chase across planets by characters you weren't really invested into and didn't associate with particularly.It should have been much better, in comparison to Darth Plagious this was a poor attempt, author should have read that first to see how it should be done.

Very good

Do not take the title literally. It is an account of the early Jedi times, but not the "Dawn" per se. It is interesting though as it explores Jedi earlier times and gives more aspects.An interesting read, but it leaves you begging for more details: for the Dawn itself. The potential was there, but it was not delivered fully.

Good read and storyline