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wyrmbergmalcolm's review against another edition
4.0
There's a lot going on in this book which is almost a mini series on its own. From the spice mines of Kessel to Blobracing to Leia dealing with affairs of state to the Maw Installation and back again. I'd almost say it was too much, particularly as this is a trilogy. However, much of the peripheral stuff is concluded by the end of the book, leaving only the main story arcs in play. This includes an event that was brilliantly underplayed and it was only later that I realised something was amiss.
This is also the first book for a while that has much of the main 'cast' from the films. It was great seeing the band back together, if only in story rather than scene.
A solid start to what looks to be an enjoyable trilogy. Bring on book 2!
This is also the first book for a while that has much of the main 'cast' from the films. It was great seeing the band back together, if only in story rather than scene.
A solid start to what looks to be an enjoyable trilogy. Bring on book 2!
novelinsights's review against another edition
4.0
I thought this was a fun read. It's not too super-serious, but it's been a while since I've read a Star Wars book and it was good to visit the universe again.
alexegol's review against another edition
5.0
I liked this book because it was so simple that it almost seemed targeted for children. Since liking Star Wars is childish, I appreciated not being treated like an adult. The newer Star Wars books apparently involve political turmoil, domestic abuse, and Sith armadas - no. I just like the space worms, Twi'leks, and mysteries of the Force. I was able to read this book in about two hours and I not only understood the cheap, formulaic plot, but I could see past it and directly into the thought process of the trash-slinging money-grubbing author who wrote it. Five stars!
rhubarb1608's review against another edition
4.0
I've been meaning to review every Star Wars book in the realcanon for years now, but I was mostly waiting until my life was in order. Well, life is not getting in order, and now that there are so many questions out there about Star Wars canon, canon novels, Star Wars books, etc., it seems more important than ever to get a start on this. In order to review properly, I decided to re-read my first favorite.
Jedi Search, the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, was published in 1994, and Kevin J. Anderson made an executive decision to reference the events of Tom Veitch's Dark Empire, thereby making them canon (and directly defying Zahn's desire not to canonize the Emperor Reborn etc.). According to realcanon timeline (that is, the dating system I built), this book takes place in year 01149, or 11 years after A New Hope.
The plot, in brief: the New Republic is struggling to rebuild after the ravages of the imperial rebellion of the year before. Dreadnaughts have decimated Coruscant. Luke is haunted by his experiences with the dark side as the Reborn Emperor's chief lieutenant. Leia is handling increasing responsibility at the heights of republican government, subordinating the demands of her husband and children to the requirements of the galaxy. She and Han have three children, who have been mostly relegated to the care of a nanny on a hidden planet in order to protect them. Jacen and Jaina are two years old, and Anakin is a mere newborn.
The book starts with Han and Chewie on a diplomatic mission to Kessel, looking to bring the rogue world into the republic for fun and profit. Unexpectedly attacked and pushed to a crash landing on the surface of the spice mining planet, Han finds out he has no friends there and this ambassador stuff is more complex than he thought.
Meanwhile on Coruscant, Luke goes before the senate to ask for support and a planet on which to start a training facility for a new generation of Jedi Knights. He goes out on a mission to locate Force-sensitive hopefuls to populate the school with, while Leia is a complete harpy about Han being gone, and her two-year-old twins are brought home for the first time.
Lando and the droids make up a final sub-plot as they assist Luke on his search for Jedi candidates before turning their attention to an investigation about what's become of Han.
The last time I read this book, I remembered being disappointed and thinking it had aged poorly since the first afternoon a 14-year-old rebel librarian-to-be triumphantly acquired the book on tape. (Our library notoriously only bought two random books of any given trilogy, and I read Dark Apprentice and Champions of the Force twice before I managed to get the first book in any capacity.)
However, Friday evening, after a long and stressful work week, a week also filled with the adrenaline of revamping this site in a desperate defense against the Darth Disney betrayal of all things Star Wars, I went to my storage unit and opened the first box on the top pile to take out these seven books for review. I went to bed, tucked up with two cats and a couple of chocolate chip cookies, and opened my very glistening, very like new copy of Jedi Search and drew in a deep breath. The smell of these 90s Bantam books is the most incredible thing -- it is by far my favorite scent. It's outright delicious.
And then I was off and reading. No disappointment. I can't remember what I was so harsh on the last time. This book is a great adventure and a worthy successor to the films. The first glimpse of Kessel, the hints of truth behind Han's boast of "making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs," the shock of a crash landed Falcon . . . Yes, it's cliched and catchphrasey in places, occasionally illogical, but on the whole, Kevin J. Anderson weaves an adventurous story that brings forth two new dangers for our heroes: a lost batch of Imperials who didn't know the Emperor was dead (reminiscent of the Japanese troops still fighting WW2 thirty years after surrender), and a "dark man" preying on the minds of Luke's prospective trainees.
Sixteen years later, I still love this book, and I'm super excited to tell you about Dark Apprentice next week -- if seeing Return of the Jedi made me a Star Warrior for life, then reading Dark Apprentice made me the Expanded Universe patron I am today!
This review via The Rebel Librarian
Jedi Search, the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, was published in 1994, and Kevin J. Anderson made an executive decision to reference the events of Tom Veitch's Dark Empire, thereby making them canon (and directly defying Zahn's desire not to canonize the Emperor Reborn etc.). According to realcanon timeline (that is, the dating system I built), this book takes place in year 01149, or 11 years after A New Hope.
The plot, in brief: the New Republic is struggling to rebuild after the ravages of the imperial rebellion of the year before. Dreadnaughts have decimated Coruscant. Luke is haunted by his experiences with the dark side as the Reborn Emperor's chief lieutenant. Leia is handling increasing responsibility at the heights of republican government, subordinating the demands of her husband and children to the requirements of the galaxy. She and Han have three children, who have been mostly relegated to the care of a nanny on a hidden planet in order to protect them. Jacen and Jaina are two years old, and Anakin is a mere newborn.
The book starts with Han and Chewie on a diplomatic mission to Kessel, looking to bring the rogue world into the republic for fun and profit. Unexpectedly attacked and pushed to a crash landing on the surface of the spice mining planet, Han finds out he has no friends there and this ambassador stuff is more complex than he thought.
Meanwhile on Coruscant, Luke goes before the senate to ask for support and a planet on which to start a training facility for a new generation of Jedi Knights. He goes out on a mission to locate Force-sensitive hopefuls to populate the school with, while Leia is a complete harpy about Han being gone, and her two-year-old twins are brought home for the first time.
Lando and the droids make up a final sub-plot as they assist Luke on his search for Jedi candidates before turning their attention to an investigation about what's become of Han.
The last time I read this book, I remembered being disappointed and thinking it had aged poorly since the first afternoon a 14-year-old rebel librarian-to-be triumphantly acquired the book on tape. (Our library notoriously only bought two random books of any given trilogy, and I read Dark Apprentice and Champions of the Force twice before I managed to get the first book in any capacity.)
However, Friday evening, after a long and stressful work week, a week also filled with the adrenaline of revamping this site in a desperate defense against the Darth Disney betrayal of all things Star Wars, I went to my storage unit and opened the first box on the top pile to take out these seven books for review. I went to bed, tucked up with two cats and a couple of chocolate chip cookies, and opened my very glistening, very like new copy of Jedi Search and drew in a deep breath. The smell of these 90s Bantam books is the most incredible thing -- it is by far my favorite scent. It's outright delicious.
And then I was off and reading. No disappointment. I can't remember what I was so harsh on the last time. This book is a great adventure and a worthy successor to the films. The first glimpse of Kessel, the hints of truth behind Han's boast of "making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs," the shock of a crash landed Falcon . . . Yes, it's cliched and catchphrasey in places, occasionally illogical, but on the whole, Kevin J. Anderson weaves an adventurous story that brings forth two new dangers for our heroes: a lost batch of Imperials who didn't know the Emperor was dead (reminiscent of the Japanese troops still fighting WW2 thirty years after surrender), and a "dark man" preying on the minds of Luke's prospective trainees.
Sixteen years later, I still love this book, and I'm super excited to tell you about Dark Apprentice next week -- if seeing Return of the Jedi made me a Star Warrior for life, then reading Dark Apprentice made me the Expanded Universe patron I am today!
This review via The Rebel Librarian
gafeni817's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
churd's review
Genuinely so insanely boring. I was going to read the rest of the trilogy so I could "continue" with the EU, but like so many Star Wars novels, I couldn't wait until it was over. Definitely skipping the rest of the trilogy.
sboard's review against another edition
3.0
It's clearly no Thrawn Trilogy, and it's a little dry, but it was a solid read. I know certain EU characters are involved in the sequels so I'll be continuing with this trilogy.
blancwene's review against another edition
1.0
For 2020, I decided to reread (in publication order) all the Bantam-era Star Wars books that were released between 1991 and 1999; that shakes out to 38 adult novels and 5 anthologies of short stories & novellas.
This week’s focus: Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson.
SOME HISTORY:
All of the previous 90s Star Wars books were originally hardcover releases, but the [b:Jedi Academy Trilogy|760109|Jedi Academy Trilogy (Star Wars)|Kevin J. Anderson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1212712018l/760109._SX50_.jpg|746206] was the start of something new: books released solely in paperback. Beginning in 1994, Bantam released a number of paperback books plus one or two hardcovers each year. The trilogy also relies heavily on the [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180] comic, which is both a blessing and a curse. If you’ve read the comic, it’s nice to see the repercussions of the Reborn Emperor still affecting the galaxy a year later. If you haven’t read the comic, though, you’re afloat in a sea of foreign information that isn’t extensively explained.
Jedi Search did better than the previous release, [b:The Truce at Bakura|302618|The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)|Kathy Tyers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326718249l/302618._SY75_.jpg|591520]; the book made it to #4 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for two separate weeks--the week of February 27 and the week of March 13--and ultimately stayed on the NYT list for 8 weeks.
MY RECOLLECTION OF THE BOOK:
I had conflated events from the next two books with Jedi Search, so reading it led to me constantly shaking my head and going “that happened here?” I remembered Luke's Jedi search, and that Daala shows up, but was very hazy where other plot events fell in the trilogy’s timeline. I had somehow completely forgotten Lando’s trip to the Umgul blob races, but perhaps that was my own protective amnesia...
PRINCESS LEIA COSTUME CHANGE COUNT:
Leia changes out of her “diplomatic clothes” in the beginning, but we don’t get any sense of what they look like. When she shows Gantoris the images of Dantooine, she’s wearing a robe. This is clearly insufficient wardrobe descriptions!
A BRIEF SUMMARY:
Newly-proclaimed Jedi Master Luke Skywalker wants to restart the Jedi Order, and asks the Senate for permission to find Jedi acolytes and form a new Jedi Academy. At the same time, Han Solo and Chewbacca are sent to Kessel on a diplomatic mission that goes horribly awry. And hidden nearby in the Maw Cluster, Admiral Daala waits for word from Grand Moff Tarkin to unleash the Imperial’s newest superweapon on the unsuspecting galaxy...
THE CHARACTERS:
It’s hard for me to approach this book objectively, because KJA introduced so many characters and elements I hate into the SW universe. Still, I tried very hard during this reread. Han and Chewbacca have an interesting plot line (even if the logistics of their mission didn’t make complete sense to me), and I felt that their portrayals were closest to the SW baseline. Han provokes the bad guys, and even when it looks like they’ll never escape, he’s still plotting and scheming. I appreciated, too, that Chewie is with him the whole time--thus far, some of the SW authors have felt the need to send Chewie off somewhere else, but it makes sense to me that Han and he would undertake this mission together.
Luke behaves weirdly in this book. I understand that he’s working through a lot of guilt and trauma from the events of [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180], but he comes across as humorless and remote. There are very few glimpses of the kind, pleasant man that we saw in the Thrawn trilogy or even [b:The Truce at Bakura|302618|The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)|Kathy Tyers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326718249l/302618._SY75_.jpg|591520]. Similarly, his Force powers are so far beyond anything we have seen him do up to this point, which I assume is in keeping with how he behaved in [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180]. He jumps out of a volcano hole! He walks on lava! Why KJA? It leads to this feeling that, combined with his new personality, I’m reading about a pod person who has taken the place of the original Luke. I didn’t like it.
Leia is singularly useless in this book. She’s Minister of State, but the only glimpses we get into her job revolve around Ambassador Furgan from Carida, and then one instance where she’s frustrated and overworked and takes out her annoyance on a subordinate. Han doesn’t report back in from his mission, and she sulks and worries that he’s fallen back into his old smuggler ways. She’s not particularly necessary to the plot; once she decides they need to check on Han, it’s Luke and Lando who head off to Kessel to check things out.
Poor Lando. We get an explanation that he lost Nkllon in a card game and is now down on his luck--really?? Lando has a particularly ridiculous plot line, in which he heads to the Umgul blob races to investigate one of Luke’s potential Jedi. Of course, he takes C-3P0 and R2-D2 with him; of course, he returns empty-handed. I understand that KJA needed something for Lando to do, but surely anything would be better than the blob races!
Of Luke’s potential Jedi: Gantoris is so obviously bad news, oh my word. A dark man has appeared to him in his dreams? His inevitable betrayal will not surprise me one bit. Streen is sweet, I guess. Kyp Durron is interesting, and I enjoyed his developing friendship with Han.
Leia and Han’s twins appear in this book, after two years (??--I’ll get into that) on a hidden planet. They are two years old. Plot lines involve Threepio trying to keep track of them. I absolutely hate this part of the book.
Now to the baddies. Moruth Doole is a space frog. (Haha, he’s a Rybet, I see what you did there KJA.) His second-in-command has the atrocious name of Skynxnex. Qwi Xux is so naive that it completely ruins my suspension of disbelief. Admiral Daala strikes me as a Mary Sue with an horrifyingly undelved backstory. Of course she was the youngest Admiral ever, and the best at the Imperial Academy, and she has oft-described long thick auburn hair. But the fact that she was Tarkin’s mistress at such a young age, and was pretty much groomed for her current position, is both awful and never actually addressed.
ISSUES:
Whoah do I have so many issues with this book. First, it’s surprisingly easy to put down. Up to this point, I was averaging one SW book a week, but Jedi Search took me weeeeks to finish. There’s action scenes, but they don’t reach the same level of gripping excitement that Zahn achieved in the Thrawn trilogy.
There are also numerous references or callbacks to [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180], which only works if you’re familiar with the comic. If not, you’re left wondering why Coruscant needs to be rebuilt, or who is Vima-Da-Boda, or why Luke is struggling with Dark Side stuff. It’s a good chunk of setup that most readers probably never got.
And that’s not even taking into consideration all the new stuff KJA just drops on the reader. Apparently Force-sensitive children are most vulnerable during their first two years, which is why Jaina and Jacen were kept on a hidden planet (?) found by Luke and Admiral Ackbar (??) for the past two years? Where is any of this coming from? What is the source for this??
I find the reintroduction of superweapons into the SW universe disappointing at best. Even worse, superweapons are not simply reintroduced, but rather continually bulked up and increased in power. Sure, the Death Star is scary, but Daala had a Sun Crusher, which could destroy entire solar systems! There’s no strategy involved with superweapons, not when you can blow up entire worlds.
I am also unclear on why exactly the New Republic wanted good relations with Kessel. They use slave labor to produce an addictive drug. Why would you want any part of that? For me, Han’s plotline on Kessel falls apart the more I think about the ethics of his mission.
IN CONCLUSION:
Jedi Search introduces a lot of characters and concepts to the GFFA, some of which endured all the way to the end of the Legends era. It’s pivotal to the development of the Expanded Universe. It’s a pity then that it’s just not very good.
Next up: [b:The Courtship of Princess Leia|161540|The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars)|Dave Wolverton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326717007l/161540._SY75_.jpg|806845] by Dave Wolverton.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/7HASsSmbYzk
This week’s focus: Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson.
SOME HISTORY:
All of the previous 90s Star Wars books were originally hardcover releases, but the [b:Jedi Academy Trilogy|760109|Jedi Academy Trilogy (Star Wars)|Kevin J. Anderson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1212712018l/760109._SX50_.jpg|746206] was the start of something new: books released solely in paperback. Beginning in 1994, Bantam released a number of paperback books plus one or two hardcovers each year. The trilogy also relies heavily on the [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180] comic, which is both a blessing and a curse. If you’ve read the comic, it’s nice to see the repercussions of the Reborn Emperor still affecting the galaxy a year later. If you haven’t read the comic, though, you’re afloat in a sea of foreign information that isn’t extensively explained.
Jedi Search did better than the previous release, [b:The Truce at Bakura|302618|The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)|Kathy Tyers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326718249l/302618._SY75_.jpg|591520]; the book made it to #4 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for two separate weeks--the week of February 27 and the week of March 13--and ultimately stayed on the NYT list for 8 weeks.
MY RECOLLECTION OF THE BOOK:
I had conflated events from the next two books with Jedi Search, so reading it led to me constantly shaking my head and going “that happened here?” I remembered Luke's Jedi search, and that Daala shows up, but was very hazy where other plot events fell in the trilogy’s timeline. I had somehow completely forgotten Lando’s trip to the Umgul blob races, but perhaps that was my own protective amnesia...
PRINCESS LEIA COSTUME CHANGE COUNT:
Leia changes out of her “diplomatic clothes” in the beginning, but we don’t get any sense of what they look like. When she shows Gantoris the images of Dantooine, she’s wearing a robe. This is clearly insufficient wardrobe descriptions!
A BRIEF SUMMARY:
Newly-proclaimed Jedi Master Luke Skywalker wants to restart the Jedi Order, and asks the Senate for permission to find Jedi acolytes and form a new Jedi Academy. At the same time, Han Solo and Chewbacca are sent to Kessel on a diplomatic mission that goes horribly awry. And hidden nearby in the Maw Cluster, Admiral Daala waits for word from Grand Moff Tarkin to unleash the Imperial’s newest superweapon on the unsuspecting galaxy...
THE CHARACTERS:
It’s hard for me to approach this book objectively, because KJA introduced so many characters and elements I hate into the SW universe. Still, I tried very hard during this reread. Han and Chewbacca have an interesting plot line (even if the logistics of their mission didn’t make complete sense to me), and I felt that their portrayals were closest to the SW baseline. Han provokes the bad guys, and even when it looks like they’ll never escape, he’s still plotting and scheming. I appreciated, too, that Chewie is with him the whole time--thus far, some of the SW authors have felt the need to send Chewie off somewhere else, but it makes sense to me that Han and he would undertake this mission together.
Luke behaves weirdly in this book. I understand that he’s working through a lot of guilt and trauma from the events of [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180], but he comes across as humorless and remote. There are very few glimpses of the kind, pleasant man that we saw in the Thrawn trilogy or even [b:The Truce at Bakura|302618|The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)|Kathy Tyers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326718249l/302618._SY75_.jpg|591520]. Similarly, his Force powers are so far beyond anything we have seen him do up to this point, which I assume is in keeping with how he behaved in [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180]. He jumps out of a volcano hole! He walks on lava! Why KJA? It leads to this feeling that, combined with his new personality, I’m reading about a pod person who has taken the place of the original Luke. I didn’t like it.
Leia is singularly useless in this book. She’s Minister of State, but the only glimpses we get into her job revolve around Ambassador Furgan from Carida, and then one instance where she’s frustrated and overworked and takes out her annoyance on a subordinate. Han doesn’t report back in from his mission, and she sulks and worries that he’s fallen back into his old smuggler ways. She’s not particularly necessary to the plot; once she decides they need to check on Han, it’s Luke and Lando who head off to Kessel to check things out.
Poor Lando. We get an explanation that he lost Nkllon in a card game and is now down on his luck--really?? Lando has a particularly ridiculous plot line, in which he heads to the Umgul blob races to investigate one of Luke’s potential Jedi. Of course, he takes C-3P0 and R2-D2 with him; of course, he returns empty-handed. I understand that KJA needed something for Lando to do, but surely anything would be better than the blob races!
Of Luke’s potential Jedi: Gantoris is so obviously bad news, oh my word. A dark man has appeared to him in his dreams? His inevitable betrayal will not surprise me one bit. Streen is sweet, I guess. Kyp Durron is interesting, and I enjoyed his developing friendship with Han.
Leia and Han’s twins appear in this book, after two years (??--I’ll get into that) on a hidden planet. They are two years old. Plot lines involve Threepio trying to keep track of them. I absolutely hate this part of the book.
Now to the baddies. Moruth Doole is a space frog. (Haha, he’s a Rybet, I see what you did there KJA.) His second-in-command has the atrocious name of Skynxnex. Qwi Xux is so naive that it completely ruins my suspension of disbelief. Admiral Daala strikes me as a Mary Sue with an horrifyingly undelved backstory. Of course she was the youngest Admiral ever, and the best at the Imperial Academy, and she has oft-described long thick auburn hair. But the fact that she was Tarkin’s mistress at such a young age, and was pretty much groomed for her current position, is both awful and never actually addressed.
ISSUES:
Whoah do I have so many issues with this book. First, it’s surprisingly easy to put down. Up to this point, I was averaging one SW book a week, but Jedi Search took me weeeeks to finish. There’s action scenes, but they don’t reach the same level of gripping excitement that Zahn achieved in the Thrawn trilogy.
There are also numerous references or callbacks to [b:Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy|8287494|Star Wars Dark Empire Trilogy|Tom Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200157l/8287494._SX50_.jpg|14421180], which only works if you’re familiar with the comic. If not, you’re left wondering why Coruscant needs to be rebuilt, or who is Vima-Da-Boda, or why Luke is struggling with Dark Side stuff. It’s a good chunk of setup that most readers probably never got.
And that’s not even taking into consideration all the new stuff KJA just drops on the reader. Apparently Force-sensitive children are most vulnerable during their first two years, which is why Jaina and Jacen were kept on a hidden planet (?) found by Luke and Admiral Ackbar (??) for the past two years? Where is any of this coming from? What is the source for this??
I find the reintroduction of superweapons into the SW universe disappointing at best. Even worse, superweapons are not simply reintroduced, but rather continually bulked up and increased in power. Sure, the Death Star is scary, but Daala had a Sun Crusher, which could destroy entire solar systems! There’s no strategy involved with superweapons, not when you can blow up entire worlds.
I am also unclear on why exactly the New Republic wanted good relations with Kessel. They use slave labor to produce an addictive drug. Why would you want any part of that? For me, Han’s plotline on Kessel falls apart the more I think about the ethics of his mission.
IN CONCLUSION:
Jedi Search introduces a lot of characters and concepts to the GFFA, some of which endured all the way to the end of the Legends era. It’s pivotal to the development of the Expanded Universe. It’s a pity then that it’s just not very good.
Next up: [b:The Courtship of Princess Leia|161540|The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars)|Dave Wolverton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326717007l/161540._SY75_.jpg|806845] by Dave Wolverton.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/7HASsSmbYzk
urbino's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5