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Summary: Another Star Wars bust!
Review: Kevin J. Anderson destroys what a colossal image Star Wars has become. Though his book has its good side in plot, it would better be used on an entirely different theme. Anderson takes away the spirit of the characters. Twisting them into something beyond what we saw on the big screen. Turning them into characters bigger than theirown shoes. The plot was intriguing, I will give credit due, but the wrong image of the characters comes out. They are almost unbelievable, even for this vast universe of Sci-fi. I'm sorry, but this book doesn't uphold the spirit of such a great epic.
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Summary: What happened here?
Review: After reading Zahn's excelent Thrawn Trilogy, I expected the characters to remain about the same, but I was sorly disapointed. Luke has become a jedi master, just 7 years after becoming a Jedi Knight at all!!! The movie implied that to become a master took decades!! Anderson made it seem like Luke was the most powerful, most important, most benevolent person in the entire universe! Luke's suppose to be a protagonist, sure, but he's not some omnipotent master of the universe either. Everything he does in this book is pointless, especialy the "walking on lava" scene. In fact, to read about Luke's exploites, I find myself reminded of a certain Jedi master clone who Luke thought was corrupt. Leia seems to have become a full-time polotician, with no intrest in battle or her children's wellfare. Also, she is suppose to be just as force-capable as Luke, but in this book, she can't even lift up her lightsaber. Mara Jade was a key character in the Thrawn Trilogy, but in this book she is totaly usless. I though she and Luke were close! Yet Anderson manages to make Mara far more hostile to him than she was at the end of "The Last Command", and Luke compleatly ignores her. Perhaps Anderson didn't even bother to read that book, so he knows nothing about how it ended. Han Solo, who should be a far more interesting character, is nothing more than a side character. In fact, to read this book, you might almost thing that Anderson was trying to corrupt tha SW universe into his perverted conception of what it should be. Jedi Knights are the Mystic Masters of All Power and Glory, and everyone else is just a needless side character, who really can't accomplish anything useful. And where in hell did he get the concept for a Jedi Academy? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! I thought Jedi training was suppose to be a one on one deal! And aside from that, all Anderson does anyway is parot the lines Yoda used in "The Empire Strikes Back". HE CLEARLY HASN'T THE ABBILITY TO WRITE AN ORIGINAL STORY OF HIS OWN, so he just steals other people's ideas, twisting them into new and awful forms, much like a child given a beautiful sculpture, and then told to make any changes it wants. If you want to read a good seireis of SW books, stick to Stackpole and Zahn. They're the only ones who wrote anything worth reading. All of the people who gave this book good reviews are probably under age 11. Anyone who wasn't has either never seen the movie, or is a phenominal fool (almost as big a fool as Anderson himself)
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Summary: Great way to start off another great trilogy.
Review: This book starts right off with action, and continues throughout the book with an intense story. Han meets a new character that will become influential in the Star Wars universe in the future in Kyp Durron. Luke finally gets things done with his Jedi Academy and other exciting plot developments as well. Good book.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This is just the first book in a wonderful trilogy. This book is excellent. I admit at some places it could be better but the rest of the book takes up for the boring part. It is excellent!!
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Summary: This book is not the greatest, but it makes way for next 2
Review: This book doesn't do much for you until the next two books. Therefore, credit is do. four stars, one for thought, one for work, and two for ground laying. Thank You
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Summary: Almost.
Review: It's good, but It'll never match Zahn or Stackpole. Buy the Thrawn Trilogy first.
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Summary: JUST LIKE THE OTHER 2....GREAT!!!!
Review: Anderson used a great storyline by putting Luke's hopes for a jedi academy to good use. Another good use of the past was Han getting caught on Kessel. That really showed creative work. This book is worthy of my 5 star rating.
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Summary: Hype...and then disappointment
Review: I remember being so excited to read this trilogy after reading the masterpiece Zahn trilogy. Unfortunately, the excitement ended after I began the 1st page of this book. I've read the whole trilogy, and I must say it was very disappointing. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think Mara Jade was in this trilogy, was she? If she was, she probably showed up for like a page. Disappointing not to see Anderson use that complex, wonderful character from the Zahn trilogy.
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Summary: Not the best Star Wars book out there but..
Review: Fortunately, I have yet to read any other Star Wars Book that's on the market; so I found the book pleasant enough. But background info on the events from the other SW books provided by peers gave me a seamless transition from SW movie to SW novel. One thing i had against the book after reading it is "Jedi Search" is too predictable plotwise. A presented dilemma in a chapter is easily solved with different solutions in that same chapter (i mean how lucky can the characters get , they even have a chance to choose from those solutions) so there isn't really enough time to build up the suspense and you just go reading on what else has to happen next.It isn't overly original either. The superweapon bit is getting old. But regardless , it does have its moments and it sets a nice base for the next two Jedi Academy books in store. Let's just hope it gets better.
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Summary: This is the best starwars book yet. It is a must read.
Review: This book is a worthy contuation to Lucus's great epic. Kevin J. Anderson Is one of the best starwars writers (Zahn is the oter one) I give this book two thumbs up.
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