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Summary: Lots of Loose Ends
Review: I'm glad this book had the variety of seeing Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan interact with other Jedi, but there are several major loose ends which is why I don't think it's as good as the other books. First, how did the parents even know their child was force sensitive? That was a real leap. Then, in a society with information so tightly controlled as that on Kegan, how did the parents even know where to send their message or how to get it out? Don't we think some safeguards would exist to prevent a regular person from sending a message out? Then, through several searches and confinements, Obi-Wan and Siri were allowed to keep their lightsabers, even though they were obviously not "handwarmers." However, the ending will send a shiver up your spine. I really like this series of books overall, but this one was a little weak.
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Summary: Another excellant Jedi Apprentice book.
Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi isn't happy to hear that he and his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, will have to work with another master-apprentice team on their newest mission.... especially since the other apprentice is Siri, a girl who is two years younger than Obi-Wan but just as skilled. Obi-Wan finds Siri difficult to work with, and she seems hostile and unfriendly toward him. When Obi-Wan, Siri, and their masters land on the planet Kegan to search for a baby who may have the potential to be a Jedi, they descover a strange world that has not had any contact with off-worlders for over three decades. When they are exploring, Obi-Wan and Siri are mistaken for Keganite children cutting school, they are abucted and placed in a detention facility where children are drilled to accept the rule of the Kegan leaders. In this place where freedom is a memory and questioning authority strictly forbidden, Obi-Wan and Siri must rely on their connection to the force and to each other if they want to make it out alive. I highly reccomend this series to all Star Wars fans. It's a children's series, but you don't have to be a child to enjoy it - I'm several years older than the suggested age level, and the book had me on the edge of my seat.
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Summary: Super
Review: This particular book in the series was a real page turner. Obi-wan, Siri, Qui Gon and Adi Gallia are back in this interesting continuation of a wonderful Star Wars series. It was well written and kept my attention till the end. It was enjoyable and thrilling, definitely a book that you will want to finish!
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Summary: Super
Review: Ok so Siri is not at all happy with Obi Wan cuz he left the Jedi Order so it starts out rough. They land on Kegan, a planet that allows absolutely no offworlders (not even Jedi or supply shipments for that matter)they are there to see if a child is Force sensitive, the planet is completely out of date with old model landspeeders and machinery, they have absolutely no recent medical supply and a space virus that had plagued the galaxy 10 years before had wiped out alot of population and made alot of kids orphanes and all cuz the rulers refused to accept the shipment of medicine that cured the virus. The rulers refused anything new and there people thought the rest of the galaxy was worse and were completly oblivious to the fact that the ENTIRE galaxy had better resources then they did. The kids spent all of their childhood away from civilization and were not allowed to leave the so called "Learning Circle" if a student protested they ended up in the "Re-Learning Circle" where they were never seen again. Being the first offworlders for many years Siri and Obi Wan, who were told to explore the area cuz Qui Gon and Adi Gallia (Siri's Master) could not get away from the guides who were purposely not allowing the 4 of them too see what really went on on the planet,were thought to be escaped children from the "school" on Kegan,they were captured and taken to there. They got there and were told that the Jedi Temple was a place full of evil threatening the galaxy and other lies. They began to try and tell everyone one the truth (mostly Siri with Obi Wan backing her) but the teacher yelled at them many times and finally gave them dish duty. Will Siri and Obi Wan ever get out or will they be sent to the Re-Learning Circle and never return? Will their Masters ever find them? Will this planet ever get everything it needs to actually live well and became another thriving planet in the galaxy? Read it to find out...
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Summary: The truth is, this series is still wonderful
Review: Over the course of eight books (another author wrote book one), Jude Watson has consistently delivered delightful, wonderful stories, with only one disappointment. The Fight for Truth takes the series in a slightly different direction than the immediate predecessors. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are on a mission of peace for once, and the action is accordingly minimal. But Watson's story telling skills are such that we really don't mind. What should bother more people than it does (both the characters in the novel and we readers) is the Jedis' mission to take a young Force-sensitive child from her parents. True, the parents "want" the child to be raised as a Jedi, but why doesn't the Jedi penchant for depriving children of their parents trouble more people? For a while, there was a web-site run by Lucasfilm called "holonetnews", which was a mock news-site for events leading up to Attack of the Clones. There was an on-going "story" about a woman complaining that the Jedi had kidnapped her baby. That's a perspective that begs to be explored in a novel, although perhaps the Jedi Apprentice series with its young target audience is not the best place to do so.Yet putting that aside, there's still a great deal to enjoy in The Fight for Truth. Here we begin to see the thirteen year old Obi-Wan maturing into the young man of The Phantom Menace as Obi-Wan is paired with a Padawan two years younger, and finds himself trying to mentor her. We also see more of Qui-Gon's headstrong stubborness (Remember Obi-Wan's plea "Master, don't defy the Council. Not again.") as he comes into conflict with future Council member Adi Gallia about how to accomplish their mission. It is these ever-changing, ever-developing aspects of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that make every Jedi Apprentice novel such a treat. There are many who complain that the Jedi Apprentice novels are too short. I disagree. Edgar Allen Poe used to say that a mark of truly great literature can be read in one sitting. Each Jedi Apprentice novel more than satisfies that requirement. It's bite-sized Star Wars and it's delicious.
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Summary: A Masterpiece for Star Wars fans everywhere!
Review: An absolute page turner, "The Fight for Truth," written by Jude Watson, is absolutely breathtaking. While Qui-Gon Jinn and Adi Gallia are busy trying to talk privately with parents of a force-sensitive child and convince them to let the child come to Coruscant with them, their young Padawans, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Siri, go exploring and are captured by guards who work for a place called The Learning. The strictest school I've ever heard of, Obi-Wan and Siri are called troublemakers by the teachers and guards due to their constant "lying." But it is the teachers who are lying to the students, teaching them things that are not, such as that the Jedi Order is a dark path and slavery is legal on Coruscant. While Obi-Wan and Siri develop a plan to escape, Qui-Gon and Adi are troubled by the sudden disappearances of the force-sensitive child and their Padawans. Will Qui-Gon and Adi find their Padawans and the force-sensitive child? Are Obi-Wan and Siri doomed to live in a school where there is no way to escape permanent detention? You will have to read "The Fight for Truth" and see for yourself.
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