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The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure
by Jason Fry
Yet another poor attempt at trying to add character to an already established character in the Star Wars universe. Everyone beyond the Hero is another throw away and the actions of Luke Skywalker become diluted in trying to recapture the innocence of young Skywalker in A New Hope. And yet, this fails by making Luke take a step backwards in growth as a character and a step too far forward as a Jedi. His character has yet to meet Yoda, and yet, his little bit of training with Kenobi, I am supposed to believe that he can hang in there by his own guile?
The villain was also without purpose and the 'mission' without anything more than a chance for Threepio to tell yet another, 'been there, done that' story of Master Luke.
These short stories are horrible attempts at trying to give the powerful trio of the original trilogy one last hurrah before the new heroes of the new Trilogy take over the lore and story telling.
This is fan fiction at best, and not even good fan fiction. I am reading the third now, but this looks to be another in a string of bad choices being made to sell books and not to tell stories. Telling stories is supposed to be the reason to write a novel to begin with, not to earn a paycheck or slap your name onto the cover underneath STAR WARS. Pass on this drivel.
EDIT: A better Luke Skywalker story would have been his journey as a Jedi to craft his new lightsaber after his father's was lost at Cloud City. I know that the company usually guides the authors, so I will not blame him as much as the money machine Disney for a poor choice in stories to tell of Young Skywalker.
The villain was also without purpose and the 'mission' without anything more than a chance for Threepio to tell yet another, 'been there, done that' story of Master Luke.
These short stories are horrible attempts at trying to give the powerful trio of the original trilogy one last hurrah before the new heroes of the new Trilogy take over the lore and story telling.
This is fan fiction at best, and not even good fan fiction. I am reading the third now, but this looks to be another in a string of bad choices being made to sell books and not to tell stories. Telling stories is supposed to be the reason to write a novel to begin with, not to earn a paycheck or slap your name onto the cover underneath STAR WARS. Pass on this drivel.
EDIT: A better Luke Skywalker story would have been his journey as a Jedi to craft his new lightsaber after his father's was lost at Cloud City. I know that the company usually guides the authors, so I will not blame him as much as the money machine Disney for a poor choice in stories to tell of Young Skywalker.