Return to Ord Mantell (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 12)

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Summary: What a bunch of crap!
Review: And I loved these books. I can't believe what a cool author anderson is, and how desperate he must have been to write this book. It has to be the dumbest book on the face of this planet, oh my god!! Whatever happened to the cool authors, like Timothy Zahn, who don't give a damn when a book is due, and makes it Awesome. To hell with this book!

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Summary: Pretty OK.
Review: As a devoted fan to the Young Jedi Knights series, I think all of the books are cool, but this was not one of of the better ones. Defintly doesn't stand up to, "Lightsabers," or "Emperors Plague" for example. It feels rushed, like Anderson had to meet a deadline, and kind of wishy-washy. but, I would advise that you read it because "Trouble on Cloud City" is much better, and this book kinda sets the scene for it.

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Summary: I hate to burst your bubble, but this book is a bummer.
Review: Basiclly, this book was night quite what it was made up to be. It was pretty boring, and kindof confusing. But, it you must read it, okay.

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Summary: Not what I expected !
Review: I have all of the other series of this book so I have read all the series so far. The first part of this series was great, the second ok, but the third has is horrible so far.I mean it just isn't as good as the first series. So unless you're a diehard fan , save your money.

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Summary: My comments as an avid fan
Review: I read this book as soon as I could find it. It's the first book in the third series of Young Jedi Knights. (If you haven't read any others of these, find Heirs to the Force, the first book.) I was disapointed in this book. The series seems to have lost the adventures between the main characters. The bad guys aren't as interesting as at the beginning of the series. The new enemies, as far as I can gather, are remnants of the Black Sun. I like the use of old Star Wars characters (Kyp, Streen, Gallandro). I won't complain too much. Even though I didn't like some things, I'll read the next two books; the series is still better than average.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I really liked this book, it was one of the best. There was one thing I didn't like how the relationships between Jacen and Tenel Ka and Jaina and Zeek were ignored.

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Summary: It's a Pretty Good Book!
Review: I think that this book was only a heading for what is to come in the next books. I have not stopped reading Star Wars since I saw the first of the New Trilogy. I have even read almost all of the adult books. I am going to read I, Jedi next.

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Summary: The Best of Star Wars Continuation I've Seen yet !
Review: I think this book series keeps getting better all the time. I read alot of Star Wars books and I also tell my friends which books are good and more than 80% of the time they agree, But this series is great for every Star Wars fan no matter of what age. But overall all 12 books are just Wonderful.

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Summary: Best one yet!
Review: Never will you put down this book. Exciting it is . Learn you will. The force is strong with them.

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Summary: An excellent start to the final trilogy of the series
Review: Part of what fascinated me about this book right from the beginning was that all the kids, while still in character, seemed way older, and supposedly only a few months had passed between The Emperor's Plague and this book. It was an extremly well written book, with a well defined, understandable plot. In it, Jacen and Jaina and Anakin all go on a short vacation with their Dad (Han of course) to go and check out a really cool race on Ord Mantell. Once they get there they meet Anja Gallandro, a girl who hates Han because she believes he murdered her father. She plays on his guilt, and somehow convinces him to go try to right a bloody civil war on her home planet. Through an interesting chain of events they meet back up with there other friends (big surpise), as well as Anja who by the way is not only working for some evil smuggler guy, but also is addicted to some kind of drug. I also find it very interesting that all through this whole series Jacen is hung up on Tenel Ka, and now the instant some other pretty girl comes into the picture, he instantly forgets she ever even existed, and I sense the same thing beginning to happen to Zekk and Jaina too. This only serves even more to convince me that these budding relationships were silly to begin with, though I must admit I always enjoyed Jacen and Tenel Ka. As for Anja herself, well, she was cool and all but I found myself not really liking her much, and I just couldn't really care about her like I could the other characters. She just seemed more like a glorified and somewhat twisted version of an early Mara Jade to me. Another thing that bothered me was that even though Anakin was with them throughout the whole book, he was practicly ignored and it seemed as if they somehow forgot about him at some points. This was somewhat irritating because Anakin has always been my favorite of the Solo children. Besides those minor details though, this was an exellent book. I also think it is cool that a Star Wars book can deal with serious issues such as drug adiction. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves Star Wars, though it will probably make more sense if you have read the previous 11 first.