Troy Denning's Tempest, the latest novel in the Legacy of the Force series, has been on release for just over a week now.

TheForce.Net's reviews should appear in the next few days, but if you want the low-down, I thought it was great—immense fun from start to finish. Tempest is a saga of Sith, space-battles, Skywalkers and Solos, combining an edge of hard realism with the starlit space-fantasy setting we all know and love, and all without losing the core of what makes a story Star Wars...

If you can't wait for the full review, you can head over to TF.N's own message-board forums, and read the review thread or join the discussion.

Or, as forum member THE_PIED_PIPER recently reminded me, there's also an in-depth interview with the author on-line at the Random House website....