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cmoorebooks's review
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.0
jnamadan's review
3.0
The conclusion to the Jedi Search trilogy. Unfortunately it was more of the same poor writing which actually dipped from the previous book.
wesleyboy's review
5.0
That was a damn good finale to a series that started off shaky. You can practically hear the Star Wars theme throughout and the final battle is EPIC.
fisk42's review
3.0
Review for the Jedi Academy Trilogy (Overall trilogy rating 4/5):
This was one of my favorite series set in the Star Wars universe growing up. After a re-read it's still near the tops for me* in terms of the ideas it covers, but it's flaws are more obvious to me now.
This trilogy covers an amazing number of great scenes and world building:
- We get to see the planet Kessel and get introduced to The Maw (a series of black holes near the planet). That world and the spice within get very fleshed out. We also learn how Han was able to brag about making the Kessel run using a unit of distance instead of time.
- Blob Races!
- Good development of Admiral Ackbar, his homeworld, and people.
- A race of aliens with a tower sized glass cathedral with the only purpose of being a building sized flute.
- We finally get introduced to Han and Leia's twins.
- Luke makes his first fumbling attempts at reestablishing the Jedi.
- The Sun Crusher! There is a new big bad weapon in town and it blows up stars!
Overall these books are fun and have a lot going for them. The purported villain is pretty weak (though you could argue that the real villain is an anti-hero within the book). Also for some reason Kevin J. Anderson has some *really* weird issues with time and space. For example, it felt like the books took place over the course of a couple weeks (which made it feel very cramped in terms of what happened) but apparently it was actually months if not longer.
* (In terms of overall Star Wars Legends recommendations I think the Thrawn trilogy is top. I'm not really a huge fan of a lot that was written around the time of the prequels. The X-Wing series as I've written before is also amazing. And I'll get to it in my re-read later on but the New Jedi Order series is also fantastic. But the NJO isn't as significant if you haven't lived with the characters and books like these contribute heavily to that.)
This was one of my favorite series set in the Star Wars universe growing up. After a re-read it's still near the tops for me* in terms of the ideas it covers, but it's flaws are more obvious to me now.
This trilogy covers an amazing number of great scenes and world building:
- We get to see the planet Kessel and get introduced to The Maw (a series of black holes near the planet). That world and the spice within get very fleshed out. We also learn how Han was able to brag about making the Kessel run using a unit of distance instead of time.
- Blob Races!
- Good development of Admiral Ackbar, his homeworld, and people.
- A race of aliens with a tower sized glass cathedral with the only purpose of being a building sized flute.
- We finally get introduced to Han and Leia's twins.
- Luke makes his first fumbling attempts at reestablishing the Jedi.
- The Sun Crusher! There is a new big bad weapon in town and it blows up stars!
Overall these books are fun and have a lot going for them. The purported villain is pretty weak (though you could argue that the real villain is an anti-hero within the book). Also for some reason Kevin J. Anderson has some *really* weird issues with time and space. For example, it felt like the books took place over the course of a couple weeks (which made it feel very cramped in terms of what happened) but apparently it was actually months if not longer.
* (In terms of overall Star Wars Legends recommendations I think the Thrawn trilogy is top. I'm not really a huge fan of a lot that was written around the time of the prequels. The X-Wing series as I've written before is also amazing. And I'll get to it in my re-read later on but the New Jedi Order series is also fantastic. But the NJO isn't as significant if you haven't lived with the characters and books like these contribute heavily to that.)
fantastiskfiktion's review
3.0
http://fantastiskfiktion.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/star-wars-iii-jedi-academy-trilogy/
juperez's review
1.0
Some truly juvenile drivel here. If I were a Disney exec, I too, would have thrown this one out.
kb_208's review
4.0
A good end to a really solid trilogy. I enjoyed reading through these about as much as the Zahn Trilogy. I know most like the other much better, but these stories hold their own. It's worth the read through if you're still interested in the "non-canon" stuff.
artemisreads's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
i feel like this series had so much potential but it just fell so flat and it’s like barely about luke and his academy even though that’s the literal name of the series and what it’s meant to be about 😭😭