Star Wars Knight Errant is perhaps one of the most action packed Old Republic novels ever written. The story takes place a thousand years before Luke Skywalker and a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away. Of course the rule of two has not yet been initiated and thus hundreds and hundreds of Sith roam the galaxy unchecked. But there is one lone Jedi, whom this story revolves around, that dares to defy them. Her name is Kerra Holt.If your looking for an intriguing tale full of wild adventure, awesome new worlds, crazy plot twists, Sith vs Jedi and every thing you've come to expect from Star Wars, this is your book. John Jackson Miller's novel "Knight Errant" is a novelization of his popular Dark Horse comic book series about an ass-kicking young Jedi named Kerra Holt who is stuck in Sith-occupied space during the era of the Old Republic, attempting to save the enslaved peoples of each planet upon which she arrives. It's basically a western, and Holt is the archetypical western lone gunman (in this case, gun woman) riding into town on a horse (land speeder) and bringing justice via a six-shooter (lightsaber).Miller, who wrote the series of novellas that comprised the "Lost Tribe of the Sith" series, is a decent writer whose specialty is action and building suspense. Lots of that in this novel.Unfortunately, there's really not a lot of anything else, like character development or plot. Perhaps it's because Holt's character is already well-established in her comic book series (which I have not read), so fans already know her back-story, but i personally would have liked to understand her motivation a little more. She is an interesting character: a vengeful, solitary Jedi with a vaguely tragic history (It is mentioned briefly that she was recruited by the Jedi as a young child after her home world was attacked by Siths and her family was enslaved. That's about it for back-story.) Also, the novel isn't so much a novel as a series of stories. It basically follows the format of a comic book series, and I wouldn't be surprised if this novel was a re-worked scripting of several comic book stories into one whole. The stories are inter-connected but slightly disjointed, as if Miller contrived them to make them fit. I'm probably being petty, though, because most Star Wars fans won't care. Overall, "Knight Errant" is an okay read, but it's definitely not one of the better ones in the Star Wars Expanded Universe series.
Do You like book Kóbor Lovag (2014)?
boring first half, saved by a good second half.
—jencrystalgirl
