This is my second time reading and I liked it more this time around. It feels a bit like star wars but also very alien from it. 

I liked the use of tenses (present tense while in the past, past tense while in the future) I think the slight clunkyness of this, combined with the fantastical elements of Tython made it feel a bit like the epics of this world (odyssey aenead etc). 

I liked the idea of the je'dai striving for true balance between light and dark, and the villain being someone who rejects the force.

I also liked the main character, I like that she was flawed and darker than jedi we are used to seeing. 

I found the plot a little confusing at times, felt a bit like we were chasing the villains who in turn were chasing a mcguffin. I think the stakes felt real, but I didn't really understand the ins and outs of why. 

There's also a wild amount of fat phobia in this book which is just so uncalled for. I knocked off half a star just for that. 

I think this book should have been part of a trilogy, or there should have been more stories set at this time. It felt like this book was building to something, there are mysteries that are never explained. 

Ultimstely it's not a bad book, it feels unique and interesting and tries something different within star wars which is cool. However I think in the end it was just too different to really resonate.