
Jaws, the book, was a middling thriller with some fine suspense sequences, and not highly rated when it was published in 1974. The second, to which we shall return in a moment, was Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight. Let us flash back, then, to the summer of 1975, and the fate of two huge bestsellers and the movies derived from them. Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars by Sam Maggs releases March 7, 2023, and is available for pre-order now wherever you get your Star Wars books.A Star Wars fan dressed as an imperial guard attends Lightsaber Battle LA in Pershing Square.

But it introduces new characters to the Star Wars universe as well, and does a perfect job of catching the reader up on things they may have missed from the original game.

He’s the major villain of Maggs’ story, and is just as sinister as his fellow Inquisitors.īattle Scars features many familiar characters to those who know the story of Fallen Order. The Fifth Brother was first introduced in the animated series Star Wars Rebels, but has since appeared in comics such as Darth Vader (2017) and the 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series. He would watch the Inquisitor sweat as he tried to push back through the Force, to regain control over himself and over his lightsaber, and he would see the dawning fear on the Inquisitor’s face as he realized he was outmatched.” He would see the red lightsaber and its circular threat halt, frozen mid-spin, returning to its less dangerous form. He would see the Inquisitor slow like he was hitting a wall of water, his feet betraying his own orders to continue their forward motion. “ knew what Cal would see, from where he was getting back on his feet.

In an excerpt released last week, Cere and Cal find themselves locked in a dangerous duel with none other than the Fifth Brother - a potentially deadly Inquisitor who isn’t going to go down without a fight.
