End of the Dark Nest

I just finished The Swarm War (Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book 3), by Troy Denning. It was about how the other two are. I'm not going to go all out and call this trilogy as bad as the Hambley books but it was pretty bad.

I am left with more questions than answers and yet this is the last book in the trilogy. Jag is left at a cliffhanger. I don't know if we get real-Jaina back at all. This book gave me a little hope that maybe she'll go back to normal at some point. The only interesting part of this entire trilogy was Jacen. The rest was either lame or awful, or vaguely interesting.

While I would like to move right on to the legacy books (which is the next series in the timeline) I think I'm going to hold off for now and read some other books first. I need to double check how many of the legacy books I even have. I think I'm missing two or three. I don't even know how long the legacy series is, and apparently there's a Fate of the Jedi series after that and I'm not sure if I have any books in that. I have about 3 books that take place after Dark Nest and I'm not certain which series they belong to. I guess getting caught up on my Star Wars reading has, well, caught up with me, lol. Mind you I still haven't read almost any of the Clone Wars era books, and I haven't read a lot of the old republic books except the Karpyshyn(sp?) books. Otherwise I've read everything else.

Dark Nest 2

I just finished reading The Unseen Queen (Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book 2), by Troy Denning. It was better than the first book. I'm especially enjoying reading about Jacen. I've liked Jacen a lot since about the middle of the NJO. Until then he was always kinda in the background for me. Unfortunately I was spoiled for something that happens in this book about him. I didn't know it was this book, specifically, but I saw it coming in this book after reading the first one. I suppose having Jaina the way she is is as good a way as any to keep Jacen from having anyone to talk to about anything. Since he doesn't want to also tell Zekk, who is still linked to her for some stupid reason. I guess I just said the reason. Because the script says so.

Anyway, still totally not interested in the Killiks or how super, incredibly powerful they are. Really, the bad guy can turn herself invisible by "hiding behind your doubts"? How lame is that? Is that even something that can happen?

I also don't understand all the little sub-groups of Force users. When Luke was originally on his search for Force sensitives to start the Jedi Academy with he surely would have been led to some of them? How old are these sub-groups? I could see random Force users starting their own little groups and without anyone who knows Jedi knowledge they would each turn out a little differently, also depending on the cultures around them. But they would have to be fairly recently made to not have attracted his notice some 25 years earlier. (I'm a little lost here but I believe Jacen and Jaina are about 26 now and it was after they were born that he started the academy)