Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Secession threatens tottering Republic control.

Alan Dean Foster's first Star Wars novel in almost twenty-five years is a direct lead in for Episode II: Attack of the Clones, so it reads more like the first part of a trilogy rather than a stand alone novel. The story begins as Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent out to aide another Jedi Knight and her Padawan in negotiations with the planet Ansion,... Readers expecting a more action packed Star Wars adventure might be disappointed with the amount of world building that Foster does in the narrative and the conclusion leaves the reader hanging (like I said, it's meant to flow right into Episode II), hopefully Foster will write a sequel to this tale and interpolate the narrative events of Attack of the Clones, thus creating a book-movie-book trilogy within the arc of the prequel trilogy. Recommended to ADF fans more than SW fans.