Star Wars - Shatterpoint vs Star Wars - The Cestus Deception: Which Should You Read?

Star Wars - Shatterpoint Matthew Woodring Stover · 2003 ★★★★☆ 3.7 419 pages · ≈ 7 h 46 m · Moderate

Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, skilled diplomat, and devastating fighter. But he is also a man of peace—and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal,…

Star Wars - The Cestus Deception Steven Barnes · 2004 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

“For half a millennium Coruscant had glittered, a golden-towered centerpiece to the Republic's galactic crown.”

Ord Cestus, a planet mostly barren and inhospitable to life, was first colonized as a prison world—until a handful of hardy pioneers discovered its rich ore deposits and managed to build up a successful…