After all the discussion about the shittiest work in Canon, I decided to do something of the sort for Legends.
The discussion of the Revan novel in another thread and my recent revisit of it has led me to now believe that it is the worst novel in all of Legends continuity. It's now dethroned Legacy of the Force: Revelation, which is quite the achievement.
I always had RoT as the worst of the bunch. DoE had at least some characterization, I guess. But both were really bland and a far cry from PoD, which was hardly amazing to begin with.
DoE's pretty subpar but I don't think it's in contention for the title of worst novel ever myself. Not with trash like Revan and Revelation lying about. RoT might be a genuine contender, though. Horrible novel. Never managed to bring myself to reread it even once.
I actually enjoyed the Bane novels when I read them tbh, but that was a very long time ago. Around the same time I read Revan and it was shit. So I'm guessing I'd find the latter atrocious now. Going with that.
Drew really reveals that he knows the square root of jack shit about KotOR II in the novel, lmfao.
Horrid pacing, bland characters (literally no characterization for several of the characters, and the others are cliched carbon copies), absolute butchering of the lore, rushed and stupid ending, and numerous inconsistencies within itself. Oh, and the worst fights ever written in an SW novel.
I can't even think of a positive for it. Or Revelation, in fairness, but at least that didn't butcher the mythos or contradict itself as badly as Revan.
It was pretty awful from start to finish, especially the beginning which was utterly tone deaf in portraying the Jedi and the Republic in the midsts of the Jedi Purge, and depicting Revan as some average joe who retardedly named his son after an anagram of himself, lmao.
Thinking over it tbh, the whole thing read like a poorly written fan fic.
They are angry because they have been forced to recognize that their hour has arrived; that the time has come to surrender power to Shimrra and the new order."
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Yeah, the worst SW novel ever written is The Old Republic: Revan. There are many just as badly written books, but at least they don't muddle the continuity that much and can largely be ignored. But Revan raped one of the best works in SW: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. The disservice and disrespect done was simply staggering.
Revan really is a serious contender. You can really smell the incompetence and apathy coming off the page. My favorite point about how bad Drew is is that he wrote an entire chapter with Carth in it then forgot to put it in the book. Amazing.
Sep 15th, 2016 01:42 PM
