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beyondtime's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-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
3.25
jtashoff's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
leonix's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 stars. It could be better if had a actual plot and development for the characters.
aabravanel32's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
relaxing
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
kb_208's review against another edition
3.0
A pretty good clone wars story. I wouldn't say that it is essential reading, but I do enjoy Reeves' and Perry's characters. This story centers more on a spy that is sabotaging the medical base oh the Planet Drongar as well as the personal lives of some of the doctors there. It concludes the duology pretty well and wraps things up making them ready for Reeves' Coruscant Nights trilogy.
jaredkwheeler's review against another edition
3.0
Star Wars Legends Project #153
Background: Jedi Healer was written by [a:Michael Reaves|12537|Michael Reaves|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1272842062p2/12537.jpg] and [a:Steve Perry|6262|Steve Perry|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1463048818p2/6262.jpg]. It was published in September 2004. Reaves has written or co-written 9 Star Wars novels, including (of course) the first of this duology, [b:Battle Surgeons|548314|Battle Surgeons (Medstar, #1)|Michael Reaves|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420795342s/548314.jpg|1049448] (my review). In addition to his work with Reaves, Perry is probably best known for Shadows of the Empire.
Jedi Healer is set about a week after the previous book, 2 years after the Battle of Geonosis (20 years before the battle of Yavin). All of the surviving characters from Battle Surgeons return for this novel.
Summary: Those responsible for stealing the Republic's supply of the priceless bota from Drongar are gone, but Barriss Offee's mission continues. Darkness and mystery still swirls around the Republic's forces on Drongar, as the Separatist saboteur remains at large, and even larger events loom on the horizon. The medical staff of Rimsoo Seven have been through a lot, but the greatest challenges and dangers may still lie ahead.
Review: This is all of the things that I said about Battle Surgeons, but more so. Everything I liked about Battle Surgeons . . . the writing, the characters . . . I like more. Everything I didn't like . . . the weird idioms, the emptiness of the plot . . . irritated me even more. I guess the story was too long for them to combine both books into one, but they don't really stand alone. Well, I say that . . . this kind of does. I said you could just about skip the first novel. This one begins by getting you up to speed enough that you really could just read it on its own if you were so inclined.
Personally, at that point, I'm not even sure I'd bother. It's not just that the things that were wrong with the first novel irritated me more in the second. They were actually worse. The weird translated idioms thing grew even more prominent. In fact, there was a whole group of characters on the equivalent of a USO tour whose names were drawn from American entertainers, like Epoh Trebor. (Like, really?!) That kind of nonsense rips me out of the book every time. It's not as clever as they think it is.
Worse than that, though, is the way this book resolves the remaining open questions of the series. There are a lot more POV segments from the saboteur, but they almost never serve any purpose beyond reminding us that, yes, there's still a saboteur floating around. And they're written in a way that is really really careful to shroud the gender (and some other details) about the saboteur, which ends up totally telegraphing the saboteur's identity if you're paying attention. This despite (or, really, almost because of) a wildly-silly attempt at misdirection partway through. The novel would probably have been better if they had revealed the saboteur's identity much earlier. That, at least, would have dispensed with some of the clunkiness of the POV sections.
Maybe an even bigger question, though, in terms of the ongoing series, is what the deal is with the bota. It's a miraculous substance, even more precious than bacta apparently, but we never hear about it anywhere else in Star Wars? What's up with that? Well, they do address it, just in the most boring way possible. There's some really great stuff involving bota and its properties along the way, but ultimately it all just fizzles out at the end. Very underwhelming.
Overall, as I said of the last one, the books are engagingly written and I like the characters. I'd almost recommend anything with I-5 in it, honestly. But these are probably most skippable of the Star Wars novels that I actually enjoy.
B-
Background: Jedi Healer was written by [a:Michael Reaves|12537|Michael Reaves|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1272842062p2/12537.jpg] and [a:Steve Perry|6262|Steve Perry|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1463048818p2/6262.jpg]. It was published in September 2004. Reaves has written or co-written 9 Star Wars novels, including (of course) the first of this duology, [b:Battle Surgeons|548314|Battle Surgeons (Medstar, #1)|Michael Reaves|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420795342s/548314.jpg|1049448] (my review). In addition to his work with Reaves, Perry is probably best known for Shadows of the Empire.
Jedi Healer is set about a week after the previous book, 2 years after the Battle of Geonosis (20 years before the battle of Yavin). All of the surviving characters from Battle Surgeons return for this novel.
Summary: Those responsible for stealing the Republic's supply of the priceless bota from Drongar are gone, but Barriss Offee's mission continues. Darkness and mystery still swirls around the Republic's forces on Drongar, as the Separatist saboteur remains at large, and even larger events loom on the horizon. The medical staff of Rimsoo Seven have been through a lot, but the greatest challenges and dangers may still lie ahead.
Review: This is all of the things that I said about Battle Surgeons, but more so. Everything I liked about Battle Surgeons . . . the writing, the characters . . . I like more. Everything I didn't like . . . the weird idioms, the emptiness of the plot . . . irritated me even more. I guess the story was too long for them to combine both books into one, but they don't really stand alone. Well, I say that . . . this kind of does. I said you could just about skip the first novel. This one begins by getting you up to speed enough that you really could just read it on its own if you were so inclined.
Personally, at that point, I'm not even sure I'd bother. It's not just that the things that were wrong with the first novel irritated me more in the second. They were actually worse. The weird translated idioms thing grew even more prominent. In fact, there was a whole group of characters on the equivalent of a USO tour whose names were drawn from American entertainers, like Epoh Trebor. (Like, really?!) That kind of nonsense rips me out of the book every time. It's not as clever as they think it is.
Worse than that, though, is the way this book resolves the remaining open questions of the series. There are a lot more POV segments from the saboteur, but they almost never serve any purpose beyond reminding us that, yes, there's still a saboteur floating around. And they're written in a way that is really really careful to shroud the gender (and some other details) about the saboteur, which ends up totally telegraphing the saboteur's identity if you're paying attention. This despite (or, really, almost because of) a wildly-silly attempt at misdirection partway through. The novel would probably have been better if they had revealed the saboteur's identity much earlier. That, at least, would have dispensed with some of the clunkiness of the POV sections.
Maybe an even bigger question, though, in terms of the ongoing series, is what the deal is with the bota. It's a miraculous substance, even more precious than bacta apparently, but we never hear about it anywhere else in Star Wars? What's up with that? Well, they do address it, just in the most boring way possible. There's some really great stuff involving bota and its properties along the way, but ultimately it all just fizzles out at the end. Very underwhelming.
Overall, as I said of the last one, the books are engagingly written and I like the characters. I'd almost recommend anything with I-5 in it, honestly. But these are probably most skippable of the Star Wars novels that I actually enjoy.
B-
hstapp's review against another edition
3.0
I quite enjoyed the story in this one. There was less Medical practice, and even though the mystery of the spy was quite easy to discern, I really enjoyed the tale.
I can't say I'm a big fan of joke names like one of our main characters le Trene. There are also some joke references to songs and popular media that I just didn't really understand in this format, since it's not really supposed to be a funny or 4th wall breaking book, so those moments were just really odd in this context.
I can't say I'm a big fan of joke names like one of our main characters le Trene. There are also some joke references to songs and popular media that I just didn't really understand in this format, since it's not really supposed to be a funny or 4th wall breaking book, so those moments were just really odd in this context.
jarichan's review against another edition
4.0
Dieses Buch hatte ich irgendwo in einer Wühlkiste entdeckt und nahm es mit, obwohl es Teil zwei ist und ich den ersten gar nicht kenne. Da aber alles Wichtige aus Band eins erklärt wird (man wird ziemlich gespoilert), hatte ich gar keine Mühe, mich in der Geschichte zurechtzufinden. Eigentlich ist dieses Buch ein Krimi im Star Wars-Universum, somit habe ich auch fröhlich mitgerätselt und tatsächlich war meine erste Eingebung richtig. Dazu gibt es noch eine Portion Liebe ohne zu übertreiben, sympathische Charaktere aus dem gesamten Universum und natürlich das geballte Star Wars-Feeling. Schade, dass Barriss aus dem Kanon herausfiel, sie ist mir enorm sympathisch, und hoffe, ihr woanders wieder zu begegnen.
0101_1_0111_1's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
5.0