Darth Plagueis

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If you're a fan of political intrigue, I'd say this is a good novel. It shows what Darth Bane's Order of the Sith Lords, the organization which drives the entire plot of both the prequel and original trilogies, did to set everything up to go in the prequel trilogy, for their eventual coming to power.

Another thing I noticed was that the way by which the Order of the Sith Lords was shown to work as an organization in this novel, in terms of the recruitment of new Apprentices, the succession of Masters by their Apprentices (basically, the Apprentice murders their Master at some point and then gets an Apprentice of their own which continues the cycle), and the Rule of Two (only 2 Sith allowed, one to embody the power, the other to crave it), really made me appreciate more deeply how things in the Emperor's Throne Room in Episode VI Return of the Jedi turned out, particularly the significance of two major decisions: 1) Luke's refusal to the murder the now defenseless Vader on order of the Emperor (who, as the Sith Master Darth Sidious, was trying to replace Darth Vader with Luke as his new Sith Apprentice and Vader, being Luke's father, was an attachment figure for Luke and initiation into the Order of the Sith Lords requires a Sacrifice, the murder of at least one attachment figure by the initiate, so Luke's murder of Vader would have meant his giving into the dark side and becoming the Emperor's new Sith Apprentice) and 2) Vader's act of self-sacrifice (and trust me, Vader knew picking up the Emperor when he was using Force Lighting was going to be deadly to Vader himself, because the Lightning would short-circuit his suit's life support systems), out of love for his son, to save his son from a long, drawn out painful death, being the only Sith Apprentice in Bane's Order to kill his Sith Master for reasons other than self-aggrandizement and lust for power, and the only killing by a Sith Apprentice of their Sith Master that would not count as a murder, because it was done in defense of his son.

Also, just as significant, Anakin Skywalker's selfless act of self-sacrifice caused Bane's Order to go extinct.

Sounds truly interesting. I admit though, my experience with Star Wars is pretty well limited to the movies, though the books seem to be regarded as canon by many fans. I wonder how that will be influenced by the fact that with the newest trilogy, the novels will be completely ignored.