Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane #1) by Drew Karpyshyn

Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane #1) by Drew Karpyshyn-389 pages

The Darth Bane trilogy is written by the same author as Revan. It is set 3000 years after the events of Revan and the video game Knights of the Old Republic. This is the first novel in the trilogy and serves as Darth Bane's origin story. It chronicles how he journeyed from lowly miner on Apatros to Sith foot soldier to Dark Lord of the Sith and to destroying the Brotherhood of Darkness so that he could take the Sith in a new direction. He believes he has found the key to Sith dominance, which is that there should be a master and an apprentice. Two Sith. One to have power and one to crave it. Bane starts the tradition of the Sith that lasts all the way down to Sidious and Vader. 

Star Wars, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno

Star Wars, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno-336 pages

This obviously isn't romance, but I wanted to read this anyway. I watched Rogue One in theaters last December and wanted to read this story since it is the background story to Rogue One. It is not an action-filled story, but it is a worthwhile one, nonetheless. It gives more weight to the characters from the movie and it sheds more light/helps one make more sense of the events of Rogue One. Overall, I enjoyed reading this novel, although there were a few typos and grammar errors.