Crosscurent is a quest to find truth. We follow character Jaden Korr from the Star Wars Legacy of the Force novels and Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy. The novel as a whole is not bad. It certainly is not one of my favorites and I am not sure that I would recomend it to a close friend; however, it does carry some merit.

When a sith ship carrying dangerous crystals that empower the Dark Side of the Force attemps to jump through hyperspace with a damaged hyperdrive, it and all of it's occupants find themselves propelled 5 000 years into the future. An ancient Jedi Master will stop at nothing to get revenge, a cryptic vision given to a new coming Jedi Knight, a pilot who is simply at the wrong place at the wrong time; all their lives connect in one, single moment.

I fail to see why LucasBooks and DelRey allowed the publishing of this novel from first time Star Wars novelist Paul S. Kemp. The novel lacks of the intrigue and hooks that first timers usually use when they wrap their minds about the Star Wars universe before setting pen to paper.

Crosscurrent is not a bad novel, it is simply lacking. On numerous occasions, I found myself skipping words, trying to find on the page where the story continued. The characters presented are real enough, but the vocabulary given is not top notch. The novel has potential, I'm just not sure it was used efficiently. There is no doubt that Mr. Kemp can write; but I'm not sure that Star Wars is the way to go.