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Summary: OK
Review: It was ok but it had some prety stupid parts.Like the peaple not seing the importance of Kyp's rampage!I mean there idea that the way you fight wars is to sit on your but and wate for the enemy to blow you to pieces!And he wusnt a murderer.They were in war and he kild the enemy.And Kyp was prety dumb becous blew up about 6or7 stars to get 3 star destroyers was plain stupid.It had dumb parts but it was prety good.
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Summary: A good continuation of the Jedi Academy Trilogy,
Review: The New Republic is trying to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher captured from the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala by Han Solo with the help of Kyp Durron and Imperial defector Qui Xux, a scientist who was brainwashed from the time she was a child so that she would develop superweapons for the Empire. Finally, the decision is made to send the Sun Crusher into the heart of the gas planet Yavin, and the New Republic figures that problem is solved, although they have another: Daala has come out of hiding to attack with her fleet of three Star Destroyers. Young Kyp, hoping to learn how to control his Force potential, heads to Luke's Jedi academy on Yavin IV. There, he encounters the spirit of Exar Kun, an ancient Sith warrior defeated by the Jedi during the great Sith War thousands of years ago. Exar Kun twists Kyp's already confused mind to his advantage, luring the young man over to the Dark Side. Although this trilogy has a less complicated storyline than many of the other Star Wars books, I've found the first two books to be fun, action packed reads. I highly recommend the series to fans of the other Star Wars books.
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Summary: Typical Middle Story of a Trilogy
Review: Back when I was a kid, I remember watching The Empire Strikes Back and not really liking it too much. I was naive, and now have a greater appreciation for the story. Now with Dark Apprentice, I feel the same way as I did when I was young. However, it does a good job in leading up to the 3rd book of the trilogy. I'm almost done with Champions of the Force, and like I felt about Return of the Jedi, it's full of action. Basically you need this book to enjoy the third of the trilogy, and watch-out, all three books reference the original Star Wars way too much.
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Summary: Not great, but has a few bright spots
Review: This book is like it's predecessor--okay, not great, but okay.I really wish that Anderson had spent more time on Luke and his academy. The chapters on this topic are short, and few. Too much time is spent on Leia and her diplomatic struggles, and Jacen and Jaina. While these are intersting enough, I read this to find out about the Jedi, not about two-year-olds running around quoting their favorite story. Daala went from bad in the first book, to worse with this one. When first desribed as a military genius, and then depicted the way she is in this, I must wonder about Anderson's continuity. I liked Exar Kun's involvemnet in the story, although he gets quite awful by the next book. I just couldn't figure out why Luke couldn't sense his presence. Luke seems rather cut off from his students and the things they are doing, and it gets him into trouble. Another superweapon was a little tiresome. Plus a third Death Star, need I say more? Anderson's style is childish, but easy to understand. Characters like Qwi and Furgan are explored a little more, and are quite intersting. Overall, not an awful book, but it's nowhere near being good. People starting their first explorations into the world of SW novels would be wise to start with better options such as the Thrawn trilogy.
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Summary: A very capivating book
Review: This book steadily unlocks more secrets and stories that the movies failed to mention. For those who are into Sci-fi and Star Wars, a very good book. It is rather long, but Books that "you can't put down" get finished really quickly. Dark Apprentice expands more on the Jedi academy Luke builds and the relationship between Han and Leia. It also Deals with the remenants of the empire, hoping to destroy Curuscant. I think Mr. Anderson made a very good book.
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Summary: One of the better Ones
Review: There have been at least 30 Star Wars books released since 1991 that have continued the adventures of Han, Luke, and Leia. This is one of the better ones. The 2nd part of a trilogy, it has a cliff hanger ending, similar to Empire Strikes Back. The story continues from Jedi Apprentice about how Luke is progressing as a Jedi Master at his newly created academy. Two of his students fall to the dark side and create interesting confrontations for Luke, the second of which is the cliff hanger. Han and Leia, with the New Republic, are involved in battling the rogue Imperials who had just recently discovered that the Emperor had fallen. Character development and back ground information was well done. Overall, this story isn't just an adventure of the month that was relased, it was a true continuation of the Star Wars saga.
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Summary: The ability to quote doesn't make you intelligent...
Review: Personally, I don't think Anderson is as bad as some people say. But he isn't as good as most other Star Wars authors, not by far. Anderson has the tendency to constantly quote lines from the original trilogy, and his Jedi look almost close to complete omnipotence. Furthermore, it looks a lot like he forgot to do his homework before he started writing this series (hangerbay doors on a Stardestroyer?). Next, most of the new characters Anderson introduces are pretty lame. Admiral Daala looked almost as if she couldn't get her men to hit the broadside of the Death Star. Kyp is simply a 'young Luke'-clone gone bad, and ambassador Furgan isn't much more than a bragging warlord wannabee. The worst thing though, is the fact that Anderson simply HAD to put a third Death Star AND a whole new superweapon in the overall story. Although it was nice to find out more about the origins of Tarkin's battlestation, I don't think introducing a whole new one was really necessary. Overall this book is a nice read. It contains several nice ideas that are fairly well used and the storyline is just good enough to make most Star Wars fans reach the end of the novel easily. If you are looking for a nice series of Star Wars books though, I would rather recoment Timothy Zahn's Thrawn-trilogy, or Stackpole and Allston's X-wing series.
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Summary: I gave this a 3 star rating
Review: I thought this book was okay but it could of been better. It ended bad. I guess the story continues in the third book but I want to find out what happens and they don't have it at my library. Several parts were really stupid and some were interesting
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Summary: Um?......
Review: What the heck! They leave Luke just lying there for dead! Read Champions of the Force quick! But this book otherwise is quite dull.
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Summary: A jedi student of Luke Skywalkers' turns 2 the dark side.
Review: I thought the book went into some really good details describing the setting and the plot. At times it through me off because i thought at first i thought that Gantoris was going to betray Luke but i turned out to be Kyp.
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