Reviews

Star Wars: Use the Force! by Michael Siglain

justthatstarwarsbookgirl's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

There wasn’t really anything outright WRONG with the book, but the book definitely wasn’t even a decent read in my opinion. I flipped through the book and got through reading it rather quickly, and I thought it was a decent summarization of Luke’s training with Yoda for kids, but definitely had slight inaccuracies where they left important details out, including the cave scene with “Vader”, the X-Wing scene and even Luke leaving Dagobah. I thought Luke’s leaving was shortened so much so that there was no emphasis at all put on how he is damaging his use for the Force by not completing his training and leaving the planet too early/so soon. The reason for why Luke failed the cave test and even I believe the fact itself that he did fail was not included in the book at all, nor was the premonition about Luke’s face being under Vader’s mask. The X-Wing scene seemed abrupt and rushed, and the explanation about why Luke failed to lift it out of the swamp seemed too short and not descriptive enough. I absolutely disliked the ending, just leaving off so suddenly with Luke going to “use the Force” to rescue his friends, not even adding on the extra fact that he doesn’t have full control over the Force due to leaving Dagobah before his training was complete. I believe the only thing I liked and enjoyed in this book was a piece of artwork of Luke doing a flip with Yoda on his back, not even any of the writing; which is confusing because other writing from this author hasn’t been bad to me in the past. The only reason I have rated this book two stars is because of the possibility that for a casual fan (and maybe a VERY young child) this book would be an easy read and make sense to them overall. Overall for a dedicated fan or any adult readers even slightly familiar with the real Star Wars, I wouldn’t suggest reading this book. It would only irritate you in my opinion. But by all means don’t take this review as the only thing, if you’d like to read it please read it for yourself! Form your own ideas and opinions on it as a whole. This was just my thoughts on this book overall. Lastly, to note, this was the first Star Wars World of Reading book I have explicitly disliked. I’ve read two previously. I love the World of Reading books as a whole, just to acknowledge that fact and put that out there. 

barbarianlibarian's review against another edition

2.0

meh

librarianryan's review

lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

 

As an easy reader, I suppose this works. This Level 2 actually feels like a level 2 where as Disney World reading normally is a higher level than is marked on the book. And the story it’s a well-known story it’s just how it’s transposed for the younger audience. It isn’t my favorite as a Star Wars book, but for the earliest readers it does work.