janeeyre_914716 's review for:

Queen's Peril by E.K. Johnston

4.0

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OBI-WAN KENOBI: "At least we'll be less likely to get involved in a local labor disputes."

QUI-GON JINN: "Or kick-start unlikely romances with local nobility."

* "The rebuke in Qui-Gon's tone for Obi-Wan's choice of wording was unmistakable: some things were too serious to be understated. Obi-Wan coughed, and changed the subject."









bahahahaha I loved that comeback from Qui-Gon so much I couldn't resist putting these two gifs up with the reference he made ;) and those who watched Clone Wars will know exactly what this is.



ANYWAY, onto the review: Okay so this was actually pretty interesting and had my attention from the very beginning when I decided to go into this open minded and I did enjoy it until it got towards the end and had some Phantom Menace stuff going on then it felt rushed and went downhill from there even in the little epilogue of sorts. Overall, it was clever before all that and the research for character's personalities, backstory's, and even references was pretty good since I recognized some of them from the animated series The Clone Wars which I liked.


Here's some pros and cons about this for me that I liked/didn't like:



PROS


1- Way to be consistent with Maul's background from Clone Wars and the mere mention of the Witches which I'm assuming were the Night Sisters

2- Loved the friendship and planning of the handmaidens and made Padme's decoy Sabe work great!

3- Geonosis factory making droids also a nice touch

4- Anakin telling his mom he was always going to be with his mom after his legs were twisted after a podrace. All I could think was two things after that: the first being 'too bad his legs got fixed and he was able to walk because then he wouldn't have met Padme and Qui-Gon and events would've changed; but since his legs were fixed, well, then that left one thing. No more mom because years later little Anakin, your mom will be kidnapped by sand people and she'll die and you'll slaughter them like animals, killing all of them. Not just the men, but the women and children too, and you'll hate every single one of them.' ;) hahaha

5- Loved the Darth Sidious moments when he appeared

6- The two blasters in the arm of the throne were added just as we saw in the movie



CONS


1- Two unnecessary lines that was just random in two different spots:

"Anakin Skywalker liked flying."
"Anakin Skywalker really liked flying."

2- The very end that made for a kind of epilogue. I mean, it was an okay touch, but it was also unnecessary and I felt like it had nothing to do with this story. I mean, I got it and what the author was trying to do, but still felt like she didn't know how to end this one.


Overall, it was pretty good for the most part and I did like many other things about it, but then again, towards the end it just felt rushed and bunched up and lacked there until the end. Still, it's worth reading and one even middle grade kids would like sine it was more a mix of that age and YA and not as deep as some few other Star Wars books I read/listened to recently.