Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side Author: Daniel Wallace | Language: English | ISBN:
1612182615 | Format: PDF
Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side Description
About the Author
Daniel Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters as well as a dozen more books that explore the underpinnings of the Star Wars universe, including The Jedi Path, Star Wars: The Essential Atlas, and co-author of Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle. He is a regular contributor to Star Wars Insider magazine and compiled the questions used in the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game. In addition to his contributions to the galaxy far, far away, he has written for several other universes such as Indiana Jones, Smallville, Supernatural, DC Comics (The Joker and The Art of Superman Return) and Marvel Comics (The Marvel Encyclopedia).
Contributing Artists: Paul Allan Ballard, Jeff Carlisle, Chris Reiff, Chris Trevas, Russell Walks, Terryl Whitlatch, and the studio of Aristia/Hive Studios.
- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: 47North; Box Nov edition (February 10, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1612182615
- ISBN-13: 978-1612182612
- Product Dimensions: 12 x 11.7 x 6.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
*** WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS ***
The Sith have been getting a lot of love of late, what with the introduction of Darth Malgus in Star Wars: The Old Republic as well as the recent novel about Darth Plagueis, and this has continued with the release of The Phantom Menace on 10th February, and on the same day, Book of Sith, which as the title suggests, is a book, of Sith...
The book itself comes enclosed in a holocron that also contains a Sith Crystal and Talisman concealed within the tray that also holds the book. Pressing a button on the top of the holocron opens it, with a section of the front lifting-up to allow the tray inside to slide out and reveal the book, all of which is accompanied by a rather piercing wall of noise (sounding at times like force lightning, at others a lightsaber closing down) and flashing red lights. I may be easily entertained, but personally I think it's a pretty awesome feature.
The books is broken down into six texts, which, as Darth Sidious details in the preface, were recovered during his gathering of ancient Sith artifacts, and comprises Sorzus Syn's chronicle of the rise of the Sith Empire, a war journal by Darth Malgus, The Rule of Two by Darth Bane, Wild Power by Mother Talzin, a scientific journal by Darth Plagueis, and Absolute Power by Darth Sidious. A note from Luke Skywalker(!), explains that each of these sections has its own page design and trim, to distinguish the six individual texts.
In the preface of the book, Darth Sidious explains how he has seen the Grand Plan of the Sith come to fruition, as well as his purpose in compiling the texts included in the book, with one, somewhat ironically, being recovered from the Jedi Temple.
A review of this item really needs to be taken from two perspectives: first regarding the book and second regarding the vault.
The book is nicely done. It's well bound with an embossed, leather-like cover. Each different journal section is composed of unique page types, helping to sell the idea that its a compilation from multiple sources spanning many years. It's well written and provides some nice insights into the Sith and their history, practices, powers and plans. If I was reviewing the book alone I'd probably give it 4-5 stars...in fact, if you can buy the book alone I'd seriously recommend doing so because that leads us to the second part of this review...
The Sith Vault Holocron case looks uber cool...at first. It's really a piece of junk. The quality of plastic used for both the holocron and the misc. added items is about the cheapest that can be found. Casting marks are evident in the plastic that really hurt the overall appearance. When you press the gold triangle to start the action, the appearance only gets worse. Not only is the animation mechanism poorly designed but it's also made of far too flimsy low density plastic. The gears click-click-click and then finally engage. I bought this as a birthday gift and the vault didn't even survive the day. Within half a dozen uses it was hanging up or failing to open and close properly. The vault itself is only part of it, the removable items are cheap too. The "bonus" items are nothing more than thin, fraying fabric, simple printed paper and low grade plastic. When you consider the cheapness of the vault, it might be be worth perhaps half of the current price, but the poor design further undermines that plausibility.
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