Would I enjoy Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade? *SPOILERS for the beginning of the book*
To preface this, I've already started the book. I'm pretty much still at the beginning, but I've been enjoying it well enough so far. I'm at the part where Iskat's master is killed on Geonosis, and I'm starting to question if I'll enjoy this book or not. The way Iskat's master is portrayed as being very cold towards her, the fact that all the other Jedi masters seem to mostly ignore her or give her only the vaguest of direction or comfort after her master dies, the way Iskat herself seems to instantly start to resent the jedi to the point where she almost immediately feels that it might be a good thing that her master died since there's no one to hold her back anymore. It all feels a little bit forced.
I have to admit that part of my problem with this stems from the fact that the jedi have always been my favorite part of Star Wars. And the strong anti-jedi sentiment in the last few years ("The jedi are the bad guys, they kidnap babies, Anakin's fall was all their fault, they deserved Order 66" etc.) even in official stuff like The Acolyte has gotten kind of tiresome to me. Yes, I know they're not perfect, they make mistakes, etc. But I feel like it's not crazy to say that they do far more good than bad in the galaxy. And yet it seems like all I hear about now is how much they suck and every bad thing that happens is their fault. And I'm already seeing the beginnings of it again in Inquisitor.
I've heard that this book is really good and I certainly want to like it. But before I continue with it, I feel like I should ask: is this going to be 300 pages of shitting on the jedi? I mean I expect a certain amount of that in a book about inquisitors, I just don't really feel like sitting through yet another round of "jedi bad."