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

Rating:
Summary: Spectacular! I give it a enthusiastic 2 thumbs up!
Review: This is one of the greatest books i have ever read in this series! It has more adventure and it's lighter in this book. The twins and thier friends don't seem to think that their on any real adventure. Just kinda like a family outing.But then wammo! They get into something and they dont even know it! It's trilling and you never know whats gonna happen next, especially with Anja Gallandro around! I recomend this book to any Starwars fan. Even if your not big on Starwars but you've seen the movie you'll love it! This is an absolute must for any Starwars fan. Run out and bye it today because I had trouble finding it. There were only a few on the shelf left.Bye it today! You wont regret it!

Rating:
Summary: The best they have ever written.
Review: This is the best Young Jedi Knights book that has ever been written. They get better each book. I'm glad Anobis quit the civil war, and although Anja and Czethros are not exactly the villians I would choose, I can't wait to see the real secret and the conclusion.

Rating:
Summary: An adequate beginning of the end
Review: This is the first book in a new YJK trilogy, Under Black Sun, which will conclude (and had already done so) the Young Jedi Knights books. Ah yes, all good things must come to an end. But if this is any indication, it's goin' out with bang. It starts with Han and his kids going to Ord Mantell (where Han and Leia where almost captured by a pair of bounty hunters over twenty year before.) Han is there to judge a Blockade Runner race, and on the pace lap, the Falcon is nearly blown to space dust by a minefield planted by Black Sun. Anakin takes a piece of the mines to analyze it. Enter Anja Gallandro, however, and things get hot. She takes the piece of the mine, and faces down Han, who supposedly killed her father during his adventures twenty-five years before. Zekk, Tenel Ka, and Lowie enter the Lightning Rod in the race, and the YJK are reunited. Anja challenges Han to go to her war-torn planet, Anobis, where the farmers and miners are constantly at war, blaming each other for the conflict. The kids get split between the mining camps and the farming village, but are reunited and are able to sow the seeds of peace between the warring groups. Anja returns with the YJK to Yavin 4 to see if she had any Force potential, and the book concludes. The authors leave some interesting loose ends to tie up, which are drawn into neat little bow-ties at the end, except for a couple ;-) See my Crisis on Crystal Reef if you *really* don't get it.

Rating:
Summary: An adequate beginning of the end
Review: This is the first book in a new YJK trilogy, Under Black Sun, which will conclude (and had already done so) the Young Jedi Knights books. Ah yes, all good things must come to an end. But if this is any indication, it's goin' out with bang. It starts with Han and his kids going to Ord Mantell (where Han and Leia where almost captured by a pair of bounty hunters over twenty year before.) Han is there to judge a Blockade Runner race, and on the pace lap, the Falcon is nearly blown to space dust by a minefield planted by Black Sun. Anakin takes a piece of the mines to analyze it. Enter Anja Gallandro, however, and things get hot. She takes the piece of the mine, and faces down Han, who supposedly killed her father during his adventures twenty-five years before. Zekk, Tenel Ka, and Lowie enter the Lightning Rod in the race, and the YJK are reunited. Anja challenges Han to go to her war-torn planet, Anobis, where the farmers and miners are constantly at war, blaming each other for the conflict. The kids get split between the mining camps and the farming village, but are reunited and are able to sow the seeds of peace between the warring groups. Anja returns with the YJK to Yavin 4 to see if she had any Force potential, and the book concludes. The authors leave some interesting loose ends to tie up, which are drawn into neat little bow-ties at the end, except for a couple ;-) See my Crisis on Crystal Reef if you *really* don't get it.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty good, but not Anderson's best...
Review: YJK RULE!!!!!!! RtOM was pretty good, but not the best of the series. The Jaina/Zekk and Jacen/Tenal Ka things were ignored which didn't help the book any.