97 reviews for:

Return of the Jedi: Star Wars: Episode VI

James Kahn

3.75 AVERAGE

exarkun1979's review

4.0

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Après avoir secouru Han Solo, Skywalker retoune sur Dagobah revoir Yoda et se fait confirmer les révélations faites par Vader. Il apprend aussi que Leia est sa soeur. Pendant ce temps, Han et Leia préparent une mission pour détruire le bouclier protégeant la Seconde Étoile de la Mort encore en construction. C'est alors que commence la grande bataille entre la Rébellion et l'Empire.

De tous les livres originaux, l'Épisode est le seul qui est meilleur que le film. La grande raison se trouve entre autre dans les petits détails dans la bataille et surtout dans les discussions entre Luke, l’Empereur et Darth Vader. Il y a une grande interaction entre ces personnages qui ne se retrouve pas dans les films et qui ajoute du poids à l'histoire. Si ce n'était pas des Ewoks, l'histoire aurait été bien meilleure.

Je peux donc dire que si lire les livres des films n'est pas essentiel à la compréhension des autres livres. Elle aide à mieux comprendre certains points et certains personnages et surtout le nom des personnages secondaires.

oliviascups's review

3.5

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

chickenmanman's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Certainly a fascinating retelling of the original film, but I felt as if the writing quality was a bit too varied for my taste, and that the retelling did notprovide enough attention for the ending of the film. For being the last novel in the series, I feel as if more closure should have been given for those who have not seen the films, as well as possibly circumventing the weaker areas of writing in the film (The Ewoks and Jabba’s Palace) by putting more attention elsewhere.  This is conjecture, of course, but I truly do feel like Return of the Jedi would greatly benefit from tighter writing.

Interesting read, overall. Very digestible.

theonewho_writes's review

4.0

fast-paced

fandom4ever's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

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It must be of his own free will, else all was lost. A spirit could not be coerced into corruption, it had to be seduced. It had to participate actively. It had to crave. Luke Skywalker knew these things, and still he circled the black fire, like a cat. 

 

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is the novelization of the movie. It does a good job of going into greater depth in many areas and I liked that there was more to convincing the Ewoks to help them than simply telling them their story through C-3P0. The best parts of this novel are the conversation between Luke and Leia, where he reveals that they are related, and the moments of Luke, Vader, and the Emperor aboard the Death Star. These sections delve even further into the emotion and thought of these characters during these instances. There are greater moments of speech and, as we’re in a novel, a greater look at the thoughts going through everyone’s heads during these confrontations.

The big negative of this book is that for some reason, either being told to do so or never being told to correct it, R2-D2, Chewbacca, and the other alien species have their beeps, growls, and words written out in phonetical spelling. This has never happened before or after, the writing is nonsense, I can’t understand it. Why did Kahn not just say Artoo beeped, Chewie growled? The weirdest part is that sometimes he does do that. You’ll just end up glazing over those parts. 

Overall though, this is a solid telling of Return of the Jedi and I would recommend it when doing a reading of the movies. 

jennasvape's review

4.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

laplantesteph's review against another edition

4.0

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Podcast for Return of the Jedi, happy listening.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BOU8TT2B07qhW0zCWlSbY?si=pfmafpGPRoe0uh8OIzDDDQ&utm_source=copy-link

minchowski's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

net4536's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional 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

phoenixsfable's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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