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Summary: Too. Cool. Awesome.
Review: This book, I dunno. Well, this ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! One of the best books I ever read, besides some of the other Jedi Apprentice books. I really like this book because it sorta reminds me of some thing I did when I was seven. I'm over it now(Though I am not telling you what I did). Allthough it didn't have very much action, untill the end, the book had more of an entertaining style to it. I showed it to some of my friends, and They LOVED it. I really enjoyed this book. Gota go! I want to go re-read for the 10th time.
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Summary: The Best One Yet! Jude Watson does it again!
Review: This has to be my absolute favorite of the entire series! In "Deceptions", written masterfully by Jude Watson, the death of Bruck Chun comes back to haunt young Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Padawan Learner of the Jedi Knight, Qui-Gon Jinn. Bruck's father, Vox Chun, is coming to the Jedi Temple to find out exactly what happened. He brings along his son Kad, who is mad at Obi-Wan for killing Bruck, and a family friend named Sano Sauro, who is going to be the prosecuter against Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Bant at a hearing on the subject of Bruck's death. To take this situation off of Obi-Wan's mind, Qui-Gon arranges a visit to Centax 2, a place where some select Jedi are working on a new pilot program. Two of the Jedi include Obi-Wan's friend, Garen, and Tahl. There has been sabotage and Qui-Gon decides to stay and risk the beginning of Obi-Wan's hearing to see if he can find a solution. Twelve years later, Qui-Gon is dead, Obi-Wan is a skilled Jedi Knight who has a Padawan of his own -- Anakin Skywalker, and the Centax 2 pilot program has been shut down. Yoda has sent Obi-Wan and Anakin to the BioCruiser, a luxurious starship where people live to escape life on their home planets. Family members of those people believe that their relatives on the BioCruiser have been brainwashed and have asked the Jedi for assistance. When Obi-Wan and Anakin finally meet Uni, the BioCruiser's director, Obi-Wan is shocked when he realizes that he knows Uni and his aging father. Who are these mysterious men? Why was the Centax 2 pilot program terminated? What became of Vox and Kad Chun? Are the people of the BioCruiser really being brainwashed? All of your questions will be answered after you read "Deceptions".
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Summary: The Best One Yet! Jude Watson does it again!
Review: This has to be my absolute favorite of the entire series! In "Deceptions", written masterfully by Jude Watson, the death of Bruck Chun comes back to haunt young Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Padawan Learner of the Jedi Knight, Qui-Gon Jinn. Bruck's father, Vox Chun, is coming to the Jedi Temple to find out exactly what happened. He brings along his son Kad, who is mad at Obi-Wan for killing Bruck, and a family friend named Sano Sauro, who is going to be the prosecuter against Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Bant at a hearing on the subject of Bruck's death. To take this situation off of Obi-Wan's mind, Qui-Gon arranges a visit to Centax 2, a place where some select Jedi are working on a new pilot program. Two of the Jedi include Obi-Wan's friend, Garen, and Tahl. There has been sabotage and Qui-Gon decides to stay and risk the beginning of Obi-Wan's hearing to see if he can find a solution. Twelve years later, Qui-Gon is dead, Obi-Wan is a skilled Jedi Knight who has a Padawan of his own -- Anakin Skywalker, and the Centax 2 pilot program has been shut down. Yoda has sent Obi-Wan and Anakin to the BioCruiser, a luxurious starship where people live to escape life on their home planets. Family members of those people believe that their relatives on the BioCruiser have been brainwashed and have asked the Jedi for assistance. When Obi-Wan and Anakin finally meet Uni, the BioCruiser's director, Obi-Wan is shocked when he realizes that he knows Uni and his aging father. Who are these mysterious men? Why was the Centax 2 pilot program terminated? What became of Vox and Kad Chun? Are the people of the BioCruiser really being brainwashed? All of your questions will be answered after you read "Deceptions".
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Summary: Best Jedi Apprentice book.
Review: This was the best Jedi Apprentice book. I wasn't sure the author would do a good job writing about Anakin, but she did. I hope there's another special edition, because this one was sooo good.
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Summary: Spiffy!
Review: This will be a spoiler-free review, so don't expect War and Peace here, people. Anyway, this was, in my opinion, a very good book. Watson has a great talent for weaving an intricate plot web and have it come together so neatly. Some of my favorite characters reemerge, and, again, Watson did a great job of tying everything together. The characters, on a whole, were well developed and seemed to human, if that's the correct term. Several aspects could have been a bit more...drawn out, perhaps, but then again, that may be just me. All in all, this was another excellent book which I definetely recommend reading. >^..^<
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Summary: Obi-Wan is on trial for murder.
Review: When Bruck's father, Vox Chun, comes to the Jedi temple to inquire about his son's death, Obi-Wan must tell him what happened and the part he played in Bruck death. Doing this not only brings up painful memories and guilt, but also causes Vox to believe he deliberately killed Bruck. Vox intends to prove this in court. Even when proven innocent Vox and his youngest son, who is now Vox's only child, swear that they will never believe that he is innocent, and Obi-Wan will never be able to see himself as innocent either. Twelve years later, Obi-Wan and his young apprentice, while on a request, meet up with Vox and Kad, his son. Will Obi-Wan be able to finally put the past behind him in order to help Kad or will Kad's hatred blind him to the truth?
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Summary: Never A Disappointment!
Review: When I first heard the basic concept behind this book, that it would focus on both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon AND Obi-Wan and Anakin, I was semi-skeptical about how it would be pulled off. I mean, the reason I love this series is because it's about Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, so I wasn't sure if I would like adding Anakin to the mix. But boy was I wrong. Everything here is super and was a very enjoyable read.Overall, there weren't too many surprises. I think I had figured out every twist to the plot before it happened, but I really didn't care. What became quite obvious here is that the main character is Obi-Wan. Watson does a good job of giving the points of view of both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in all of the books, and now in this one from Anakin's point of view as well, but here this is Obi-Wan's story. And as obvious as the allusions to Anakin's future were, they were oddly satisfying. Everything about this book is fun, and it was great to get to read something that almost reached 200 pages. I hope this series goes on for a long, long time. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see it change in a year (when Episode 2 comes out) to a series that is based in the same time period as the second half of "Deceptions" is, focusing on the Jedi pair of Obi-Wan and Anakin ... but I still REALLY REALLY want the Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon adventures to continue. Anakin already has lots of stories about him - Qui-Gon has so few.
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Summary: A Welcome Addition to the Jedi Apprentice Series
Review: When I first read the back of this book, I thought it was an interesting idea, but I wasn't convinced that the author would be able to pull it off. I was worried that, as sometimes happens with the Expanded Univers, the characters would be so different from the way they had been described in other books, it would be difficult to find any sort of coherency in the pre-TPM novels. However, I was pleasently surprised. Not only did Jude Watson manage to make a wonderful transition between Obi-Wan as an apprentice and as a master, while still keeping his essential character and personality the same, but he also managed to make Anakin almost exactly the same as he had been described in Rogue Planet. Altogether, this is a wonderful book with some great characters and an interesting, if preditable, plot. It also has some great forshadowing to Anakin's future, which only makes the book more profound. The best thing about this book was how easy it was to visualize the characters doing or saying their written actions or dialogue. Watson never once had any one of them jump out of character, and this made the book more satisfying, and more fun to read
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Summary: Fairly good book, resolves some interesting issues
Review: While not the best ever in the series, it definitely does seem to take it in a solid upswing. It resolves several important issues that seemed to have been simply forgotten when the actual events occured. The book takes place in two time periods, the first with Obi-Wan still a young boy apprenticed to Qui-Gon (the normal time frame of Jedi Apprentice) and the other taking place several years after Episode 1 with Obi-Wan now training twelve year old Anakin. The first basically deals with Obi-Wan's guilt over the accidental death of Bruck Chun, as he has to face Bruck's family and the intire senate, trying him for the other boy's murder. Though it is is a mystery to me whether this first storyline is supposed to take place shortly after book seven (when Bruck was actually killed) or where the regular series currently is, after book thirteen. I also wonder if the second storyline takes place before or after Rogue Planet? I'm betting on before, personally. Anyway, when you begin the second storyline you will probably wonder what the heck it has to with the first, but I urge you to stick with it. Yoda sends Obi-Wan and Anakin on their first mission together; to go and check out this weird starship colony of isolationists who have been inspiring complaints of brainwashing. Once there Obi-Wan again meets up with Bruck's brother, Kad, rekindling Obi-Wan's memory of the boy, and his guilt... What exactly Anakin has to do with this story I have no idea, since his only purpose seems to be to whine and complain that Obi-Wan is hiding his past from him. Anyway, I liked that this book was longer than some of the others, (naturally to accomadate two storylines) though both of them, by themselves, seemed a little too short and rushed, but together they actually make quite a compelling story. Another reviewer pointed out that after Episode 2 comes out these novels will probably switch to be completely Obi-Wan/Anakin like the second storyline in this book, rather than the usual Qui-Gon/Obi-wan of the normal series. This would disapoint me, since I happen to like Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, and I'll admit to not really liking Anakin to much, but hey, I'd still read them. Anyway, I'd recommend this series to any Star Wars fan, though this book in particular would be practically impossible to understand unless you'd read at least the first eight in the series.
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Summary: Best. Apprentice Book. Ever.
Review: You see the cover above?.....It looks awesome huh? Well, the book's just as good as the cover! You have to read the Jedi Apprentice series to understand what's going on here. Obi-Wan is blamed by the death of a Jedi student named Bruck Chan when he was an early Jedi student about 13 years old. The boy's father and brother are really mad at him and I guess would be consider an "enemy of life" as the back of the book says. This special edition is divided in two parts...First part: Obi-Wan's young jedi student days and Twelve Years Later: Obi-Wan as a master and Anakin as his padawan. I love how the end of the first part end, I FELT how Obi-Wan felt...weird huh? Twelve years later he meets the boys father again...and I guess you're gonna have to see what happens. So go out and buy the book and read what's gonna happen.
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