I've just finished reading Dark Nest: The Unseen Queen (by Troy Denning) and I've decided to write a quick/short review. As with all reviews I do, it will probably contain spoilers - so if you do not want spoiling please stop reading now.

Last month I read "The Joiner King" (I also read the amazing LOTF: Revelation, excellent read!), and now I've read Unseen Queen, so thats 2/3 of the Dark Nest trilogy done. So far I've enjoyed it.

Unseen Queen (I'm assuming the title refers to Lomi Plo) sees Leia grow as a Jedi (whilst learning about her faults), Jacen start his dark decent (mind wiping Ben, hurting Harpan royals and preemptive striking the Chiss) and a war begin.

Alema Rar has now totally fallen to the Dark Side/Dark Nest, and she does it in total dark side style. Trying to seduce the heroes, using her mind to place doubt in Lukes mind and then leading a boarding party against the Alliance flag ship. Go Alema!! Sadly, her attack doesn't go to plan - and I can now see where some of her anger towards Leia comes from in LOTF.

The Jedi Order does what it (in the past, i.e. Episode I-III) should be famous for. Squabbling. Yep, the universe is starting to fall apart. Sides are being drawn, and what do the Jedi do? They argue with each other. Hopefully, Luke's going to get some sort of 2nd in command soon (or is that totally against the Council's ideals??).

One of the items I did not like in this book was Luke's display of Jedi abilities. In my mind a Jedi should not be "all-powerful" and here we have Luke being able to create 2 illusions whilst under attack by the Dark Side and he's able to have both illusions confuse multiple individuals.

The best bit of the book was space battle at the end. Bothans, tactics, espionage and lots of turbo lasers!!! Yay! Next up - The Swarm War.