I really, thoroughly enjoyed racing through reading this book, it was quite the page-turner, the first I’ve had in a while. I loved the consistency and well-laid out plot as well as the incorporation of The Death Watch and Mandalorian Warriors. I loved the introduction to the new Mandalorian assassin we met in this book. He was a fantastic and amazing character, very well thought-out and well put-together. I loved his design, characteristics, skills and abilities as an assassin. I loved the parts involving Count Dooku as always. I already was sort of suspecting the end reveal of the traitor, but it was startling and angering all the same. I still can’t seem to comprehend or understand why and how it happened in the first book in the beginning of the Series. I was most astonished by the ending of the book however. I couldn’t stop flipping the past 10-15 pages reading through them as fast as possible to glean the information to get to the end of the book. I was furious at the ending of the book and couldn’t believe Ryder Windham would cause that situation and that particular death to occur in his Book. I didn’t like the result of that situation at ALL either, things seemed so simple and like they were going to be all solved and suddenly they went completely wrong. And when I turned the last page: I was SHOCKED. Beyond anything I’ve ever felt before from a book, both the anger at that particular character’s tragic apparent death (I really hope it was fake and they somehow survived) and also the shock I felt at the big reveal at the end of the book. I can completely understand why Windham saved that reveal until the very last page. BEST REVEAL EVER, but due to the feelings the book inspired and the character’s death plus some slight graphic descriptions of innocent death’s/bodies I rate this book 4 stars. I love the new introduction of the “Orange Giant” character however. He’s my absolute favorite character so far, I love how completely willing he is to be on Nuru’s side and his loyalty to Nuru and his men for saving him. Definitely the saddest and darkest book in The Clone Wars: Secret Missions Series so far however. Not for the faint of heart or children who aren’t age appropriate.