Kathy Tyers: Balance Point



Story:
3/5
Characters:
4/5
Humor:
1/5
Action:
2/5

The sixth volume of The New Jedi Order is stand-alone novel Balance Point by Kathy Tyers. It is set some months after Jedi Eclipse and mainly on Core world Duro. Leia succeeded in talking — and paying — the locals into accepting refugees onto the hostile planet’s surface. Refugees are organised in several dome-cities that protect them from the outside, but also isolate them. In the course of the book, the Solo and Skywalker families unite once again and start uncovering — and fighting — yet another scheme that might lead not only to the death of millions but to the Yuuzhan Vong having the perfect staging ground for an offensive on Coruscant, too.

I liked this book a bit better than the last one. Instead of telling a story on galactic scale, Tyers focuses on events on one world that are self-contained. Thus she can afford to do quite some character development. By neglecting the big invasion plot, she does not commit solely to the same pattern — intrigue, advance, conquest — the previous books drew out. But for the same reason she cannot break this pattern; the series has yet to develop. However, Balance Point is certainly worth a read and might, in fact, turn out to be pivotal for some characters.

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