Revan: Star Wars Legends (The Old Republic) reviews

This book picks up two years after the events of the first Knights of the Old Republic game (and three years before the events of the second game) as the Jedi hero Revan begins to remember more and more of his life before his memories were lost. His journey takes him beyond the edge of Republic space into a world where a powerful and tyrannical evil awaits, an evil that has touched him before. This book fills in the gap nicely between the old KOTOR games and the more recent Old Republic MMO game.

The story of Revan – from powerful Jedi to devastating Sith back to redeemed Jedi – is a fascinating one which desperately needs a cohesive book to tie the story together. At the moment, you can only get the story by playing a game, Knights of the Old Republic. This book picks up after Revan / Darth Revan has been turned back to the light side; he is now married to fellow Light / Dark / Light convert Bastila Shan. The story I was hoping for in this book is all in the past, and referred to only in passing. It seems like an attempt to complete Revan’s story, while leveraging it into a new book series. As such, it was quite disappointing; it would be great to have a trilogy of books covering Revan’s back story and his path from light to dark and back. Note that hardly any of Revan’s story at the moment is canon but with a new Knights of the Old Republic game coming out in February who knows, maybe we could finally get a companion series of books? Fingers crossed.

Amazing book with a stunning story. Its just such a shame that its legends and not canon. It is injustice to the character of Revan! Regardless I recommend this highly for any fans of the Pre-Movie Lore

Makes you think about how bad you would be to do good- Non stop action as Revan discovers his past to change the future!