This conclusion to the series started off great, building tension, some wonderful force fulled fights between jedi, a wild force user, and dark side wielding inquisitors. There were even some great plot twists tossed in. But then we get to the climatic showdown between Darth Vader & Jax Pavan (main character) and the author pulls a "saved by the gods. (The Force in this case)" type plot twist which frankly left the story feeling a bit flat / anti-climatic...at least to me. ( )

The conclusion.
A young force adept, very powerful is found and hunted. Hooks up with the Pavan group.
There is a confrontation with Vader and bota [from the Medstar books] is used. Vader has a bad trip on bota"[it was ridiculous] and the good parts of the group escape.
Jax learns his father loved him and I5, the sentient robot, ends up getting a "soul", or something that can be sensed in the Force anyway.

This series almost seems to make light of how the hunt for the remaining Jedi went. This was a mediocre series that wasn't interesting. Not anything like the MedStar duology, sadly." ( )

I think this was my favorite of the series. I really liked the characters and would love to see more from them in the future. I wish the Vader confrontation at the end would have been better... but all in all... the story finished in a satisfying way. Reaves even decided to tone down the doctorate level vocab that he wrote with for the first two books in the series. Good solid offering! ( )

Patterns of Force wraps up the trilogy in a pretty ho-hum manner. The ending was unpredictable only in the sense that it was way too predictable. The Coruscant Nights trilogy is a fun read, if it is a little light. In the second book, I really felt like the characters had 'come into their own' and was really looking forward to this book. I was disappointed. The character development just wasn't there. The book felt very rushed. ( )

I was somewhat underwhelmed by the first two Coruscant Nights novels, which I felt had not really delivered on the Jedi detective/Coruscant noir premise they had been billed under, so I didn't expect much out of this, the final installment of the trilogy. To my surprise, it turned out to be the best of the series-- perhaps because it abandons all pretense of that premise. This novel introduces a couple wildcards into the cozy world of Jax Pavan and his band of Resistance fighters: a plot to assassinate Emperor Palpatine and a powerful young Force adept who has the power to fight back... or expose their little group. Both wildcards are a little farfetched-- the characters seem very optimistic about their chances of reaching Palpatine, and I didn't buy that the kid could have somehow gone unnoticed until now-- but worth it for the conflict they introduce. Most of the novel is taken up by the various characters Reaves had so well constructed over the first two books reacting, often in unexpected yet plausible ways, to these developments. They really are shaken up and changed by what transpires. The conclusion was a bit off, particularly the fight with Darth Vader, who was not as imposing as he should have been, especially considering how well Reaves had depicted him in the previous book, but that doesn't stop this from being a solidly above-average conclusion to a previously average storyline.