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The Last Command by Timothy Zahn
3.0

Likeable enough conclusion to the series, though truth be told I was starting to get a little tired of it by the end. With the best will in the world I'm just not that interested in reading battle scenes, and three books in I've yet to move past irritation - or at best indifference - to Mara Jade and Jorus C'Baoth. Honestly, I could have smacked Luke for his endless clinging on to "Oh, but we can get you help, you psychopathic insane person who wants to take over the Galaxy!" Stop wittering and just kill him, you vacuous little shit. I have so little patience with stories like this, that offer endless chances for redemption because the only consequences to failed redemption are to people other than the main heroes. How many minor or nameless characters has C'Baoth tortured or killed, both off and on page? Luke neither knows nor, apparently, cares, as he's all too willing to risk setting this lunatic on them again some time in the future. Yeah, yeah, the Force blah blah, dark side hatred and anger. I know. Don't kill him in anger, then. Be sorry about your necessary actions but get on with it as quickly and compassionately as you can.

Better hurry up and develop those Force powers, Leia, because your idiot twin is going to need someone with an ounce of sense to balance him out in the future.