Although a very well-known Legends story, this is probably my least favorite Star Wars book so far. It took the vast majority of the book to even get interesting.

Obi-Wan using Qui-Gons lightsaber, where did that come from? Anakins gruesome first non-droid kill but we're barely told anything about it. This also goes completely against any idea of Anakin and Tarkin working together in the future, as they do. This also teases the origin of the Death Star, which doesn't fit.

It's one saving grace is the references to the Yuuzhan Vong (though they're not identified yet), and the idea of a planet being sentient and having the ability to enter hyperspace is pretty cool, though it didn't turn out as cool as I'd hoped.