Johnston’s young adult novel, Star Wars: Ahsoka, and it’s fascinating, almost amusing, to watch Vader suffer numerous setbacks in his quest to become a ruthless killing machine. Furthermore, the “bleeding” of the kyber crystal in this arc is a perfect counterpart to Ahsoka Tano’s cleansing of a fallen Inquisitor’s crystal in E.K. “The Chosen One” gives us a good insight into how the Empire rose from the ashes of the Republic, shows how the Jedi Order’s legacy was soon tarnished and “forgotten” within years of the Clone Wars, expands on existing Force lore, and introduces us to a new Force user: Kirak Infil’a, a former Jedi who had taken a vow to refrain from involving himself in Jedi affairs as a form of penance. Palpatine wastes no time reminding us (and Vader) who’s boss and promptly puts his new apprentice through the wringer, giving him a crash course in Sith ideology and tasking him with obtaining a Jedi’s kyber crystal. Soule’s Vader series gets off to monumental start by taking readers back to the events of Revenge of the Sith.
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