This is the first major story in the Star Wars timeline and does a good job at introducing you to the facts needed for the movies. Unfortunately that's all pretty dull. We may need to know what led to all the political events in The Phantom Menace (1999), but that's stuff I didn't care about. That's what dragged down the movie. Luceno does a good job as far as his writing abilities go. He did use some unnecessarily pretentious words that I had to look up. It's the best Star Wars novel I've read so far, but that isn't hard to do considering how bad the others have been. I'm not sure why no one can get it right. I found even the great writer, Terry Brooks, failed at writing the novelization of The Phantom Menace. It lacked any interesting prose or creative descriptions that would have elevated it beyond a basic re-telling of the movie. Unfortunately, it didn't add much information to what we already knew from the movie either.
Cloak of Deception does well in giving us a basis for the Trade Federation and Galactic Senate's involvement in the events to follow. It also gives some insight into the beginnings of Darth Sidious's struggle for power and manipulations of others. Not very exciting, but considering its aim, you can't really expect more.
3 out of 5
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