A review by piratesprogress
Padawan by Kiersten White

3.0

I think there is a hard ceiling for the YA Star Wars novels, for me personally, and that probably reaches a four star. While I didn't dislike anything about this novel, I didn't find the prose particularly enthralling, and while the plot is quite different from the novel Master and Apprentice, the themes and general shape of the story (Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are butting heads) are treading very familiar ground. It does get some points for bringing the concept of a planet "alive" within the Force back into canon (shout out my guy Zonama Sekot).