“Rule of Two” By Drew Karpyshyn Review

Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.

This book has to be easily the best star wars book I have read so far in my life. Which says a lot to me personally since I have read a lot of good star wars books in my time on this website and I gotta say that this one takes the cake as of now at least.

This book offers us the history of Darth Bane, Darth Bane trying and failing to create holocrons as well as Darth Bane training his apprentice who is a young female named Zannah who struggles with get easily attached to people and animals and not understanding Darth Bane’s plan on how Siths can rule galaxy. Which really made me give this book a lot of extra points for doing. Since this book portrays both Darth Bane and Zannah as real human being in the star wars universe who are struggling and trying to find their way to achieve their goals. 

There is a lot of action in this book, and the pacing in this book is pretty fast too. There is a lot of things that happens in this book which means we as readers as never bored while reading this book because there is so much that is happening in this book which made me like this book even more than I already did.

This books is pretty dark since it has its fair share of violence and it has pretty dark tone and atmosphere which really made me like this book even more than I already did, because this book just perfectly portrays the dark side in star wars and it truly shows us how different the Siths are from Jedis.

The characters in this book are incredible, especially Darth Bane which is my all time favorite character from star wars and one which in my opinion is very underrated and under explored. This book had made me just love Darth Bane even more than I already did before this book. Because this book adds so much depth and personality to him that it made him feel like a real human being in a way. 

When it comes to Zannah, she is also an incredible character. Because she has a lot of character debt to her and she has her own personality which made me immediately love her as a character. Because she struggles with her moral compass and easily getting attached to people and creatures of the star wars universe but at the same time she was to become a Sith Lord and hopefully one day kill Darth Bane and take his place as a Sith Lord. But at the same time she needs him to teach her about the dark side of the force. So she is in this constantly struggle with herself and trying to find out what she really wants.

The writing style in this book is incredible. Because it was like the author of this book knew exactly what words to use to completely grab my attention and not let it go until the very end of this book. Which made me give this book some extra points for doing that because I was completely hooked on this book from the very first page of it and I just couldn’t stop reading this book until the very end of this book. 

At the same time the author of this book made me want to read his other star wars books because there is something about the way he writes star wars books that completely takes over my life and makes me clued to his books and I stop cant stop reading them like happened with this book “Revan” book which was also written by the same author.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

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