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Summary: Its all about ANAKIN.
Review: Anakin is about 14 years old here so this story is -27 BNH on the timeline. Of course, the story is all about Anakin. Where Anakin is only 12 in the Rogue Planet mission and still acts more like a child, here he is 14 and wants to exert more influence in the decision-making. Anakin makes his first friend, because they share a love of machines and ships, Tru. The story is dumbed down of course, but not bad. For reasons that are only to enhance the story, the masters leave the Padawan's behind, finding themselves cutoff. With the masters gone, the Padawan's must work together to solve problems. Anakin learns to cooperate with a fellow Padawan Ferus (Padawan of Siri Tachi) who is well liked by his fellow Padawan's and also a good leader. The continuing curiosity in any "Prequel" book is how Anakin becomes Darth Vader, and how Vader does kill off all the Jedi. Jude Watson does advance the character study of Anakin Skywalker. Windu hasn't gone stupid yet, or at least Palpatine hasn't started messing with the Jedi yet. Hence, Windu sends 4 masters and their Padawan's to a system with 2 inhabited planets where a plague or virus has broken out on one. One of my theories of the fall of the Jedi is Windu's failure to adequately deal with crises. Here is an example where Windu sent significant force to deal with a crisis. This is a book written for 9 to 12 year olds, but I enjoyed Jude Watson handling of Anakin. I am pleased that the decision was made to put this book on unabridged Audio cassettes. I have almost every Star Wars audio book ever made up to NJO Star by Star. Davis is an experienced SW reader and does a great job.
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Summary: A Second Apprentice
Review: Jude Watson begins her second series after completing, "The Young Apprentice", story arc that ran 18 installments plus two special editions. This has to make her the most prolific contributor to the Star Wars Saga. The new, "Jedi Quest" series begins with, "The Way Of The Apprentice", and places Obi-Wan in the role once held by the late Qui-Gon, and young Anakin is the learner this time around. Anakin is placed in the position of being the most gifted apprentice any Jedi can ever recall. He cannot be separated from his peers, and so must deal with other apprentices as they all train while his gifts outstrip them all. The one aspect he lacks is patience and his tendency to interpret orders instead of following them also causes him trouble. Four Jedi teams are sent to solve what is believed to be an environmental accident. The apprentices are separated from the masters, and its time to see if Anakin can work and play well with others. His is particularly frustrated as one other learner is Ferus, an apprentice that is well liked, skilled, and one who follows every rule, and always provides the masters with the correct answers and not complaints. What follows is Anakin almost always butting heads with Ferus, and by story's end the two are far from allies even as they effect a very successful end to a mission. Anakin is independent, and the Jedi are trained to play as a team. A good start to a new series.
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Summary: Action Packed Jedi
Review: Star Wars Jedi Quest: The Way Of The Apprentice is an action and adventure book. It has light saber battles, droid killing and ships blowing up.
This book is about a boy named Anikan. He is a padawan. His master is Obi-Wan Kanobi (a jedi knight). He and three other jedi teams need to go to another planet because there is a toxic cloud killing all the creatures on this planet. Anikan needs to work with his rival to save the planet.
If you like adventures with action, this is the book for you.
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Summary: A worthy Star Wars book!
Review: To Tell the truth, I didn't read Jedi Apprentice series. It never looked to exciting. Don't worry I'll try when I see it. This one didn't look exciting either. Then I saw Episode 2 and wondered how they got to this point where Anakin says to Obi-Wan "Your the closest thing I have to a father." to is getting mad and saying to Padme "This is all Obi-Wan's fault!" and I saw the book again and said the heck with it and gave it a shot. It was actually quite good. Obi-Wan was worried about Anakin because he didn't have aby friends. Although Anakin befriended Tru Veld, a fellow padawan, he didn't seem to like Ferus, who isn't to much of a padawan himself. This book is worth reading.
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