Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void

Dec 3, 2025 1:34 AM

Author:Tim Lebbon

Discover the origins of the Jedi order, as a lone Je'daii ranger fights to save their ancient homeworld, Tython, from disaster.

On the planet Tython, the ancient Je'daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, Lanoree Brock learned the mysteries and methods of the Force-and found her calling as one of its most powerful disciples. But as strongly as the Force flowed within Lanoree and her parents, it remained absent in her brother, who grew to despise and shun the Je'daii, and whose training in its ancient ways ended in tragedy.

Now, from her solitary life as a Ranger keeping order across the galaxy, Lanoree has been summoned by the Je'daii Council on a matter of utmost urgency. The leader of a fanatical cult, obsessed with traveling beyond the reaches of known space, is bent on opening a cosmic gateway using dreaded dark matter as the key-risking a cataclysmic reaction that will consume the entire star system. But more shocking to Lanoree than even the prospect of total galactic annihilation, is the decision of her Je'daii Masters to task her with the mission of preventing it. Until a staggering revelation makes clear why she was chosen: The brilliant, dangerous madman she must track down and stop at any cost is the brother whose death she has long grieved-and whose life she must now fear.

Reviews

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—— Rob Doyle , Observer

Drawing the reader inexorably on to the heightened, rug-pulling denouement, this is beach reading at its finest

—— Stephanie Cross , Daily Mail

Every sentence as sharp as a scalpel . . . tantalizing

—— Liska Jacobs , New York Times Book Review

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—— Vogue

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—— Emily Watkins , Scotland on Sunday

A thrilling dissection of survival and how far its protagonist will (or can) go to achieve it

—— Virginia Feito, author of MRS MARCH , Observer, *Summer Reads of 2023*

Atmospheric and at times incandescent

—— Michelle Hart , Los Angeles Times

Cline's writing at its very best - hypnotically propulsive, viscerally disquieting, and moving in the most unpredictable ways

—— Doug Battersby , Financial Times

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—— Emma Brockes , Guardian

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—— i

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—— Arin Keeble , Guardian

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—— Ann Manov , Daily Telegraph

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—— Imy Brighty-Potts , Independent

A new tense summer adventure

—— Stylist

This unsettling but gripping novel takes us deep into the mind of a woman living a shadowy half-life

—— Vanessa Berridge , Daily Mirror

Crucial reading for any young woman

—— Alex Peake-Tomkinson , Evening Standard

Undeniably compelling and atmospheric... a poolside-worthy page-turner

—— Sunday Express

A taut, tense novel... The Guest is a strong follow-up... Her [Cline's] prose is limpid and propulsive, sustaining an atmosphere of dread.

—— Economist

[An] arresting observational eye

—— Alex Clark , Financial Times

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—— Big Issue

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—— Laura Battle , Financial Times

Supremely readable... propulsive

—— Markie Robson , Tablet, *Novel of the Week*

A dream-like, foreboding novel and worthy follow-up to the sensation The Girls

—— i

The talented Ms. Cline . . . Her prose is drifty and wire-taut, easy on the eye, with an awful undertow of unease that never lets up. The pathology brilliantly observed by The Guest would not feel so edgy if it were not perilously close to an aspirational ideal

—— GEOFF DYER

I loved every moment of The Guest: the intensity, the control, the atmosphere, the psychological escalation, the astonishing social observation, the profound and devastating visions of the void achieved with flicks of the wrist, the way it lets nobody off the hook and yet is not without deep humanity

—— SAM LIPSYTE

Heady scent of hotsummers and dark secrets

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—— Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

A beach read that ticks all the boxes

—— Stephanie Cross , Daily Mail

[The Guest’s] atmosphere is equally apprehensive [as The Girls] and Cline’s eye for the fragility of insider-outsiders is as gimlet-sharp as before

—— Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

The Guest… [is] as relentlessly spellbinding as her debut

—— New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

Either/Or is extremely funny and delightfully ludic, as it probes the very act of reading from the point of view of confused university student Selin.

—— Anakana Schofield, Irish Times, Books of the Year 2022

I was desperately looking forward to Elif Batuman's Either/Or, and it more than lived up to it.

—— Samir Chadha , White Review, *Books of the Year*

Re-encountering Selin...felt like being reunited with an old friend.

—— Helen Charman , White Review, *Books of the Year*

Hilarious.

—— Alice Hattrick , White Review, *Books of the Year*

I greatly enjoyed the comic zing of Elif Batuman's delightful Either/Or

—— Megan Hunter , White Review, *Books of the Year*

Witty, intelligent and funny... [Selin's] inner monologue is addictive enough to read a thousand more pages of, and I can only cross my fingers that this isn't the last instalment of the series.

—— Crack

Just as funny and self-aware and clever as The Idiot.

—— Jessica Zhan Mei Yu , White Review, *Books of the Year*

Funny, wry and insightful

—— The Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

Laugh out loud…hilarious and thoughtful

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