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cyris_reads's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
graff_fuller's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
There is something about this story that hits for me, especially at this time in our own political upheaval. Xanatos reminds me of our ex-president Trump. He has been able to make his lies look like truths for a while, but with the help of Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Den and Andra (local citizens of Telos...who remind me of the future Princess Leia and Han Solo, just saying...same vibe IMO).
Through this story, we SEE corruption exposed and the people of Telos come to their senses...through the actions of people who have put their own safety on the balance for the TRUTH.
I also loved how Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were able to have that long needed time to talk and clear the air. They NEED each other. They are not working against each other, but FOR each other (and for the good of the galaxy).
This story was overly simplistic (as Star Wars sometime is, and I'm not knocking it...but just saying it with love). Also, this story is for Middle Grade children...and is used for a moral story.
I'm not sure everyone will see the same connections that I have...placing my own views as corresponding things within this story, but that is what good stories do. They remind us of our own frustrations and concerns.
I just hope, like the Telosians, that the people of the United States of America come to their senses about Donald Trump. He is not for the people, he is ONLY for himself. I just wish that we had/have a courageous Jedi Master and a young Padawan...to show us the way towards the Light.
Through this story, we SEE corruption exposed and the people of Telos come to their senses...through the actions of people who have put their own safety on the balance for the TRUTH.
I also loved how Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were able to have that long needed time to talk and clear the air. They NEED each other. They are not working against each other, but FOR each other (and for the good of the galaxy).
This story was overly simplistic (as Star Wars sometime is, and I'm not knocking it...but just saying it with love). Also, this story is for Middle Grade children...and is used for a moral story.
I'm not sure everyone will see the same connections that I have...placing my own views as corresponding things within this story, but that is what good stories do. They remind us of our own frustrations and concerns.
I just hope, like the Telosians, that the people of the United States of America come to their senses about Donald Trump. He is not for the people, he is ONLY for himself. I just wish that we had/have a courageous Jedi Master and a young Padawan...to show us the way towards the Light.
alywt's review
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
mirrorballmusings's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
jaredkwheeler's review
2.0
Star Wars Legends Project #48
Background: The Day of Reckoning came out in June 2000. It was written by [a:Jude Watson|11912|Jude Watson|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1403530689p2/11912.jpg].
The Day of Reckoning begins shortly after [b:The Captive Temple|359786|The Captive Temple (Star Wars Jedi Apprentice, #7)|Jude Watson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1371939804s/359786.jpg|349903] (my review), 44 years before the Battle of Yavin and 12 years before The Phantom Menace. The book returns to Xanatos' homeworld of Telos, last seen in [b:Star Wars: Jedi, Volume 1: The Dark Side|12986712|Star Wars Jedi, Volume 1 The Dark Side|Scott Allie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403207410s/12986712.jpg|18146361] (my review), with no additional recurring characters.
Summary: Against the wishes of the Jedi Council, Qui-Gon has left in pursuit of his former apprentice, Xanatos, in the wake of a near-successful attempt to destroy the Jedi Temple. Obi-Wan has joined him to finish what they started together, although Qui-Gon has not yet officially taken him back as his apprentice. Both of them will need all the help they can get when they arrive on Xanatos' homeworld to find that, as always, he is more than ready for them.
Review: So, this is finally it: The culmination of the major arc of the series so far as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon run the series' major antagonist to ground. Xanatos has been the shadow hanging over their relationship from the very beginning, and now they'll deal with him once and for all. Nevertheless, I couldn't shake the feeling that this book didn't really need to exist . . . Not that it isn't worth reading, or that it does a bad job of what it sets out to do, mind you. But after the climactic events of the last book, this feels like an additional, tacked-on climax when events and characters arcs could have been satisfactorily resolved with a few additional pages at the end of The Captive Temple instead.
I complained in the last book that the Jedi are all kinds of incompetent in their inability to secure the temple against Xanatos, but the problem in this book is clearly that Xanatos is far too potent of a threat. That's not a bad thing for an antagonist to be, of course, but this story strains credulity with the seeming god-like machinations Xanatos pulls off, apparently without any accomplices. Let's review: In the decade or so since he left Qui-Gon, Xanatos has either founded or taken over a massive, galactically-successful mining corporation, and he has done so entirely in secret (no one knows that he runs it). He has also effectively taken over his own homeworld, where he is widely beloved and revered, though (again) he pulls all the strings from behind the scenes by having set up an elaborate gambling scheme to distract the masses while he prepares to plunder the planet's resources. Plus, his various roles and schemes and plans and plots are apparently self-sustaining enough that he can leave them dangling and run an intricately-plotted, full-on infiltration on the Jedi Temple for weeks without anyone noticing that he's gone. It's . . . a bit much.
Still, within the continuity of this series, Qui-Gon doesn't find any of this surprising, because he knows that Xanatos is a mastermind and strategist of the highest order who always has a plan, a back-up plan, and a couple of simultaneous supplementary plans running on the side. So, given that that's well-established, and known by Qui-Gon best of all, it's even more confusing why he recklessly pursues Xanatos with only Obi-Wan for back-up when he ought to know that he's walking straight into a massive trap with both eyes open. Xanatos has already anticipated his every move and he has turned an entire planet against his old master. Of course, the Jedi Council did try to stop him from going, but it's not clear what their deal is, either. They have no obvious plan in the works to deal with the Dark Jedi running loose around the galaxy who just nearly blew them all sky-high, and apparently they aren't feeling any particular urgency to come up with one.
Oh, well. These sort-of plot holes aside, the story is exciting and engaging enough to keep things moving all the way through from start to conclusion. If you ignore how a-little-too-perfect Xanatos' trap is, it's a lot of fun and hard not to admire. The overall story feels as slight as I complained that some of the earliest entries were, and the denouement comes a bit too easily, perhaps, but this is not a bad book. It suffers most in the comparison with the previous book in the series, as a high-point that it can't quite manage to sustain.
Nevertheless, I did like this one, particularly the minor characters who join Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon (there are two of them, as usual). And the best thing about it is that it may have at last resolved most of the nonsense standing between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. They're actually talking to each other about things they're thinking now! Yay! I'm sure they both still have a lot of lessons to learn from each other, but I'm definitely ready to move on from Qui-Gon's Xanatos baggage.
C-
Background: The Day of Reckoning came out in June 2000. It was written by [a:Jude Watson|11912|Jude Watson|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1403530689p2/11912.jpg].
The Day of Reckoning begins shortly after [b:The Captive Temple|359786|The Captive Temple (Star Wars Jedi Apprentice, #7)|Jude Watson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1371939804s/359786.jpg|349903] (my review), 44 years before the Battle of Yavin and 12 years before The Phantom Menace. The book returns to Xanatos' homeworld of Telos, last seen in [b:Star Wars: Jedi, Volume 1: The Dark Side|12986712|Star Wars Jedi, Volume 1 The Dark Side|Scott Allie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403207410s/12986712.jpg|18146361] (my review), with no additional recurring characters.
Summary: Against the wishes of the Jedi Council, Qui-Gon has left in pursuit of his former apprentice, Xanatos, in the wake of a near-successful attempt to destroy the Jedi Temple. Obi-Wan has joined him to finish what they started together, although Qui-Gon has not yet officially taken him back as his apprentice. Both of them will need all the help they can get when they arrive on Xanatos' homeworld to find that, as always, he is more than ready for them.
Review: So, this is finally it: The culmination of the major arc of the series so far as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon run the series' major antagonist to ground. Xanatos has been the shadow hanging over their relationship from the very beginning, and now they'll deal with him once and for all. Nevertheless, I couldn't shake the feeling that this book didn't really need to exist . . . Not that it isn't worth reading, or that it does a bad job of what it sets out to do, mind you. But after the climactic events of the last book, this feels like an additional, tacked-on climax when events and characters arcs could have been satisfactorily resolved with a few additional pages at the end of The Captive Temple instead.
I complained in the last book that the Jedi are all kinds of incompetent in their inability to secure the temple against Xanatos, but the problem in this book is clearly that Xanatos is far too potent of a threat. That's not a bad thing for an antagonist to be, of course, but this story strains credulity with the seeming god-like machinations Xanatos pulls off, apparently without any accomplices. Let's review: In the decade or so since he left Qui-Gon, Xanatos has either founded or taken over a massive, galactically-successful mining corporation, and he has done so entirely in secret (no one knows that he runs it). He has also effectively taken over his own homeworld, where he is widely beloved and revered, though (again) he pulls all the strings from behind the scenes by having set up an elaborate gambling scheme to distract the masses while he prepares to plunder the planet's resources. Plus, his various roles and schemes and plans and plots are apparently self-sustaining enough that he can leave them dangling and run an intricately-plotted, full-on infiltration on the Jedi Temple for weeks without anyone noticing that he's gone. It's . . . a bit much.
Still, within the continuity of this series, Qui-Gon doesn't find any of this surprising, because he knows that Xanatos is a mastermind and strategist of the highest order who always has a plan, a back-up plan, and a couple of simultaneous supplementary plans running on the side. So, given that that's well-established, and known by Qui-Gon best of all, it's even more confusing why he recklessly pursues Xanatos with only Obi-Wan for back-up when he ought to know that he's walking straight into a massive trap with both eyes open. Xanatos has already anticipated his every move and he has turned an entire planet against his old master. Of course, the Jedi Council did try to stop him from going, but it's not clear what their deal is, either. They have no obvious plan in the works to deal with the Dark Jedi running loose around the galaxy who just nearly blew them all sky-high, and apparently they aren't feeling any particular urgency to come up with one.
Oh, well. These sort-of plot holes aside, the story is exciting and engaging enough to keep things moving all the way through from start to conclusion. If you ignore how a-little-too-perfect Xanatos' trap is, it's a lot of fun and hard not to admire. The overall story feels as slight as I complained that some of the earliest entries were, and the denouement comes a bit too easily, perhaps, but this is not a bad book. It suffers most in the comparison with the previous book in the series, as a high-point that it can't quite manage to sustain.
Nevertheless, I did like this one, particularly the minor characters who join Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon (there are two of them, as usual). And the best thing about it is that it may have at last resolved most of the nonsense standing between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. They're actually talking to each other about things they're thinking now! Yay! I'm sure they both still have a lot of lessons to learn from each other, but I'm definitely ready to move on from Qui-Gon's Xanatos baggage.
C-
book_cryptid's review against another edition
4.75
I LOVE THEM
'you will make a fine jedi knight. i would be proud to continue the journey we started together.'
'you will make a fine jedi knight. i would be proud to continue the journey we started together.'
hstapp's review against another edition
3.0
Qui-Gon goes off in search of Xanatos, only to discover he has walked into a deadly trap.
This book was pretty good. Jude Watson really seems to have hit her stride and is making good progress.
This book was pretty good. Jude Watson really seems to have hit her stride and is making good progress.
fandom4ever's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
‘The Day of Reckoning’ is the eighth book in the Jedi Apprentice series and takes place shortly after ‘The Captive Temple’ with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on a luxury vessel to Telos, Xanatos’ home planet. Qui-Gon is adamant about bringing down Xanatos once and for all. As usual for Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, their entrance on the planet does not go as smoothly as they hope and they must take what help they can get. I found Telos really interesting in that it was nothing like the planet Qui-Gon had remembered, so many changes had taken place and all due to Xanatos. He had really cemented himself as leader of Telos; and how the people view him and why was fascinating. An excellent adventure that ultimately has Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan recognizing their bond and ready to reflect on past events and move forward.