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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a good first book of the Jedi Academy trilogy. I found that I could not help but feel sorry for the characters, from Han never getting a break until the end with his horrendous journey to Luke having to find apprentices to teach to set up a new Jedi Order and Leah having to struggle being a mother alone as Han could not help her. (for reasons that are beyond his control)
Yet I found the villains well written and you can really hate them. I found Kyp's journey interesting and heartbreaking, especially when it comes to just how much the Empire had treated him. I also liked how they explored the remnants of the Empire and how, despite Emperor Palpatine being dead for a long time, he still has an effect on the world.
Yet I found the villains well written and you can really hate them. I found Kyp's journey interesting and heartbreaking, especially when it comes to just how much the Empire had treated him. I also liked how they explored the remnants of the Empire and how, despite Emperor Palpatine being dead for a long time, he still has an effect on the world.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It's definitely dealing with some interesting stuff, but there's a lot of 'telling not showing', particularly with character's emotions, which bothered me a bit, and the plot overall isn't very complex. I also personally was not fond of how they're charactizing Luke so far. But I am intrigued where they're going to go with this, so I'll probably seek out books 2 and 3 eventually!
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Le livre s'ouvre sur l'écrasement du Millenium Falcon. Han et Chewie sont capturés et fait esclaves dans les mines d'épices de Kessel. Il rencontrent Kyp Durron, un adolescent avec de grand pouvoir Jedi. Ils s'évaderont pour tomber sur aussi pire, l'Amiral Daala, une ancienne maitresse de Tarkin qui a un chantier secret ou elle a développé le broyeur d'étoile, une super-arme capable de détruire un soleil. De son côté, Luke part avec Lando à la recherche de futur apprentis pour son académie Jedi.
Ce livre n'est pas ce qui s'est fait de mieux dans Star Wars. On a encore droit à une super-arme détruisant cette fois-ci des étoiles. La partie avec Han Solo est vraiment ennuyante et celle de Luke a très peu d'intérêt. Le problème, c'est que cette série est très importante pour la saga et doit être lue malgré qu'elle soit plutôt ordinaire.
Ce livre n'est pas ce qui s'est fait de mieux dans Star Wars. On a encore droit à une super-arme détruisant cette fois-ci des étoiles. La partie avec Han Solo est vraiment ennuyante et celle de Luke a très peu d'intérêt. Le problème, c'est que cette série est très importante pour la saga et doit être lue malgré qu'elle soit plutôt ordinaire.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I see now why so many hard-core Star Wars fans who read the books hate the new movies.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I started reading this trilogy back in...high school?...and somehow started in the second book. So, the combination of coming into the middle of the books, having not finished the Thrawn Trilogy and not being used to Kevin J. Anderson's style of writing soured me on Star Wars novels for a while. I decided to go back and read this so I'd have a better understanding of the Expanded Universe and specifically what took place between the Timothy Zahn novels I've also been reading and liking more. I also wanted to try and give Mr. Anderson a fair shake, which I probably didn't the first time around. And...we'll see about the other books but I still don't like his writing style, the overly dark tone or his read on the characters. I don't expect all authors to have the same interpretation of the main SW protagonists, but this seemed such a departure from Zahn's and from the original films it made it difficult to enjoy as much. I will say that he's much easier to follow than Zahn, who is often preoccupied with complicated mental and strategic chess game plots and military maneuvers.