Great book fills in allot of gaps from episode 2&3 and allot of insight from our beloved characters highly recommend for Star Wars readers,fans, especially if you love Sith..

Enjoyed reading all of these books

Review of Labyrinth of Evil: This is a great novel. Of the three prequel films each had a novel set just before it. This one is the best of the three. The main story of chasing Grevious around the galaxy wasn't too interesting to me, but the parts where Dooku tells the story of Syfo Dias was very good. That was a horrible hanging thread from the films. It was good to see it finally resolved in this book. The best part of the story was Mace Windu and Yoda dealing with the ever widening powers of the Chancellor, and and at the same time coming closer and closer to discovering the true identity of Darth Sidious. To bad stuff like that didn't make it into the films. Overall a good read with some great aspects to it. Read this with the Episode III novelization and you'll get the entire story of Revenge of the Sith in a way better version than the one we got on film.

This is a trifecta that is worth your money. Matthew Stover's written version of EpIII is excellent; in my opinion, far more interesting than the film. Character motivations are carefully and intriguingly detailed, making this the go-to version of the fall of Anakin Skywalker. Luceno begins this trilogy with an interesting, but sometimes flat lead-in to RotS. The familiar characters are all here, but this is a book that is forced to hold too much back (as it came out right before the release of EpIII), making it a bit light on plot development. Luceno more than makes up for the limitations of Labyrinth with the outstanding Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader. This is a novel I purchased and have read (and re-read) multiple times already. Of the books in this series, this was, by far, the most insightful continuation of all that was Anakin Skywalker and what has become Darth Vader. Highly recommended for Stover's RotS treatment and Luceno's contemplative look at Vader's descent in Dark Lord!

Great intro to Darth Vader!