Book Review: "The Wrath Of Darth Maul"

For those of you who don't want to buy a book before you read it, but don't want to go to the library because you don't feel like it(or are too lazy), I am going to give some book reviews on select books that I really enjoyed or extremely disliked.

Today we have "Wrath Of Darth Maul", a fairly new novel that was printed in January of this year(2012).
This novel focuses on Darth Maul's past, mostly his training, leading up to the events of The Phantom Menace. The whole story revolves around one thing: His survival from being cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi and falling down the reactor pit in the Naboo Royal hanger area.
As many of you know, the 'Resurrected' Maul will be making an appearance in The Clone Wars TV show this week(sometimes around this week or last). This book was written to accommodate those episodes by having it start with an apparently insane Maul surviving in the tunnels of Lotho Minor, then moving on to flashbacks starting when he was 3, then progressing through the years of his training that were the most important in the shaping of this Sith Lord.

Down to the review...

I thought it was well written and well put together(Ryder Windham authored the novel), and it contained a very good story. For all of those SW fans who wondered about Maul's past, wonder no longer! It's all here, including a slightly underplayed "Rite of passage" that all Sith have to go through. What I mean is, all Sith have to make a sacrifice. Kill someone they love. Maul did that, but it didn't seem like too large of a sacrifice, and it may have been because Maul is more animal than any other Sith I have ever heard about. Either way, that was slightly disappointing.

I'm out of time, so I'll say this: It was a good book. It developed Maul's character better than the movie ever could, and answered a lot of questions.
I recommend it for sure.

~Wilson1.