Children of the Jedi : Star Wars Series

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Summary: WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD??????????????????????
Review: I absolutely hated this book. It was horrible. Please will someone tell me how Luke finds the Eye of Palpatine or when he falls in love with Callista? Was there a plot in this book? I couldn't understand one thing in the sections about Leia. The sections with Luke weren't that much better. In short, this book put me to sleep with its constant descriptions of Leia's dress. I usually love Star Wars novels. If anybody wants to read a real Star Wars story, read one of the books by Zahn or Anderson.

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Summary: One Word: BAD
Review: This is probably the most confusing, most boring, and pathetic Star Wars books ever written. Hambly forgot one element in this book: a plot. I can find more excitiment in reading a disclaimer. This book was so confusing after I read it I had to get the cassete from the library to understand and I still couldn't get the plot. Not worth spending money on. Plus Callista is a very useless character.

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Summary: It's bad!!!
Review: This book is the worst Star Wars book I have ever read. I read Star Wars novels for enjoyment, not for improving my attention span. If I wanted to read a poor attempt at writing a figurative and classy novel I could read one of the suggested reading books my school gives me. I'm sorry, but this was torture.

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Summary: Unfocused writing mixed with boring plot
Review: I found "Crime and Punishment" and "War and Peace" a faster read than this book. I consider myself a avid fan of the Star Wars Universe (reading the novels, playing the game and the like). When reading this book, however, I found myself hoping Luke and Leia would die just so the book would end. The usually witty dialogue of the main characters was replaced in this book with looooong thought bubbles that were not in character. Any action in the book was slowed down by irrelevant factoids making one believe that the author had to do this to expand her short-story-idea into a novel. Those that approve all work to go into the StarWars Universe really fell down on the job with this book.

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Summary: YUCK!
Review: This book is th emost boring star wars book I have ever TRIED to read! I found that the only good part of it was the leia part. I would cringe when I would turn to the next chapter and see that it was luke... I started the book in august...97.. and I still havent finnished it... and it's july 5th! 98! Usually I finnish books in one week....

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Summary: What is wrong with you people???!!!!
Review: Well, I don't care what anyone else thinks. I thought Children of the Jedi was definitely one of the greatest Star Wars novels. Hambly's inclusion of recollections from Luke's childhood is great, and Callista is excellent for him. Now he's more than just an indestructable Jedi Knight, he's a guy who has problems too, just like the rest of us. Just because he left Tatooine doesn't mean he's the happiest guy alive. And I also think that Planet of Twilight was even better, and that Darksaber was the 2nd worst SW novel ever written, after Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

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Summary: "Children" not a book for children
Review: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" would correctly sum up Hambly's book "Children of the Jedi", as the book seems to stray 'far, far away' from the rest of the Star Wars saga. With a confusing plot and some relativly weak characters, Hambly -unfortunately- successfully manages to turn a star wars space opera, into a soap opera. But I'm not here to thrash and trash this book like so many of the others, because unlike them, I actually understood and enjoyed it. I still cannot recommend this book to anybody though other than hard-core star wars fanatics who MUST read every book that's been published. If you're someone just looking for another series to start on, Then you might want to consider skipping this one for now.

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Summary: the best star wars book since the zahn trilogy.
Review: I felt that Hambly's writing is better than most authors of Star Wars books. This book showed the characters in a different light. How often does look suffer? Her writing style is solid and she understands the characters. This book actually drove me to find other books by her in the fantasy genre that extremely pleased me. I would recomend this book to anyone wanting to read a book with a solid story and has a liking for Star Wars. It is one of the best in the series.

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Summary: Probably the best book out of the Star Wars series!
Review: This book is one of my favourite book of them all, because just for once someone managed to give Luke what he usually seems to lack: a sense of humour, and a good deal of sarcasm (and he is ever so wonderfully miserable). You can sense his frustration about the fact that he is once again stuck in an impossible situation, yet he takes it all at his pace, miraculously gets out alive and is rewarded with the love of Callista. Great! Barbara Hambly's humour is superb, so is the pace of the story and the fact that the characters involved get what they normally seem to lack: depth and humour (Han excluded - he always makes me laugh!).

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Summary: An awful, boring, yucky, sticky, horrible book
Review: I *was* able to schlogg through this piece of tripe in hopes that SOMETHING interesting would happen, only for my hopes to be dashed in the end. I wish I had visited these review pages before I spent my money - and worse, my time! - on this horrible, horrible book. Isn't there someone who reads these thing to prevent idiots like Hambly from contaminating the SW universe? ....And when, oh WHEN will Callista finally DIE!!!