This gives the author a freedom not often found in tie-in fiction to pursue the choices of the characters to whatever ends she pleases, and this she does. Unlike Obi-Wan, who can’t die yet because he’s not old enough to be Alec Guinness, Ventress isn’t even a footnote in the original trilogy.
Unlike Anakin, who can’t fall to the dark side yet because he’s due to do that in a movie further down the timeline, Quinlan’s fate is not a given. The benefit of using characters who don’t turn up in later movies is that there is no safety net for them. It’s also fast-paced, as you’d expect from a Star Wars story, with plenty of fan-service along the way - particularly if you know these unresolved characters from the show.
Given that the novel is still rooted to what was basically a kid’s show, it’s a surprisingly dark story about the moments when noble intentions (ending a war) morph into unconscionable actions (assassination/murder). Based on scripts for an unproduced sequence of episodes for the cancelled Clone Wars cartoon series (a far more satisfying and complex prequel to the original movies than the second trilogy managed to be), this novel follows a Jedi called Quinlan Vos as he works with former Sith Asaaj Ventress to assassinate the leader of the armies waging war on the Galactic Republic.
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