I had memories that this was the best of the "Force Heretic" novels: Luke and company finally reach Zonoma Sekot and learn its secrets while Han and Leia go on a rollicking space adventure on a weird planet. Well, I don't know if the difference was that reading all three Force Heretic books in one go really showed how little happened, but this time I found it the worst of these books. As always, nothing actually happens, yet nearly 400 pages are somehow taken up. Seriously, I don't get how Williams and Dix do it; both plots here are extremely simplistic, yet hundreds of pages somehow go by. Events that should be momentous have all the energy sapped out of them; events that should be fun are delivered as dully as possible. The midpoint peak of The New Jedi Order turns out to be an aberration; it is ending as dully and as falteringly as it began.

Who was the "Force Heretic," anyway?

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Luke and Mara finally find the living planet of Zonoma Sekot and work to convince it to join the fight against the Yuuzhan Vong. Han and Leia try to defend the communications relay station at Esfandia against a Vong attack. Tahiri struggles to deal with her Vong-created personality of Riina.

There is nothing too notable about this volume of the series. The Zonoma Sekot plot seems to be important as a setup for the conclusion of the New Jedi Order. The Esfandia story felt mostly like filler. ( )