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Forged by rage.
Taken as a child and trained in the ways of the Sith, he became the apprentice to the greatest evil the galaxy has ever known...

Honed by the dark side.
After years of plotting in secrecy, he and his Master will take revenge on the Jedi Order--and the once-mighty Republic will tremble...

The savage story of Darth Maul has been shrouded in mystery--until now.

Ryder Windham’s Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul retells the events of Maul’s life from the age of three through The Phantom Menace. Windham incorporates elements of Jude Watson’s Star Wars Episode I Journal: Darth Maul as well as James Luceno’s short stories “Restraint,” which appeared in the second edition of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, and “End Game,” which appeared in the 2012 edition of Terry Brooks’s novelization of The Phantom Menace. These works along with subsequent novels like Joe Schrieber’s Maul: Lockdown and Ron Marz’s Darth Maul comic series fill in Maul’s life prior to Phantom Menace, while later books and The Clone Wars continued his story in the old Expanded Universe. Specifically, Windham uses Katie Lucas’s episode of The Clone Wars, “Brothers,” as a bookend for his story.

Windham previously wrote The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader and The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which thematically and stylistically resemble this work, as well as various Star Wars comics, young readers books, and reference works. The most impressive thing about this novel is how dark Windham’s narrative gets for a book published by Scholastic for the school market. He does not shy away from the brutality of Maul’s upbringing and training. A good novel for Star Wars fans, in particular fans of the old Expanded Universe. ( )

Como amante del lado oscuro, era de esperar que empezara a leer este libro con mucha expectativa, y debo decir que no me decepciono, este libro nos muestra a una de los personajes mas apasionantes del Universo Star Wars, que honestamente merece mejor suerte dentro de la historia, yo lo colocaría aunque no al nivel del maestro Vader, si por encima del conde Dooku y del mismo Darth Sidious. vemos la evolución de un niño, como todo niño, temeroso y deseoso de agradar quien debe aprender que agradar es sinónimo de sobrevivir. las lagrimas, el temor, la ira esa explosiva mezcla que convierten al ni;o en un joven, la discriminación, las burlas y el desprecio al joven que lo convierten en un señor, un señor Sith y su poderoso papel en el desarrollo del episodio I. Todo visto desde la perspectiva de Maul, esa visión que complementa la entregada por la película. en definitiva un libro que todo fan de Star Wars debe leer. ( )

In this book you will see life as maul sees it. Maul is a young boy who is locked up in a small "cage" for a whole lot of time with his mother. His mother is a person he hardly knows. Maul was with his mom for a short amount of time before he is taken somewhere else... alone. This is where he goes and where he receives his meals. usually mauls meals were live snakes in which he had to kill. This all happened until he was about five years old ( Maul does not know how old he is). Maul is brought to a room with a man who is wearing a black cape. There is also a bowl of fish in which the odd man uses to describe the dark side of the force with. This is when the important part of Maul's life begins.

Maul then begins training memorizing planets and stars. He also starts training with wooden blades with a droid. One day maul makes one of the sticks "fly" into his hands this is also another key event in Maul's life. He is then brought to a planet by his master and is pelted with rocks and learns to channel his anger into power. Over a long time maul learns a lot and then the real test begins. Maul's master sends him to a planet in which Maul is constantly harassed by assassins and creatures. Next Maul is sent on his final mission. Maul is sent to his doom while facing two Jedi. One of these Jedi he kills the other kills him. ( )

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