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cyris_reads's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
jaredkwheeler's review
1.0
Star Wars Legends Project #318
Background: Mission from Mount Yoda was written by [a:Paul Davids|20276453|Paul Davids|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and [a:Hollace Davids|30365|Hollace Davids|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and published in January 1993. It is the fourth book in the Jedi Prince series. The Davids wrote the whole series.
Mission from Mount Yoda begins just after Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (my review), a year after the Battle of Endor (5 years after the battle of Yavin). The main characters are Ken the Jedi Prince, Luke, Leia, Han, Artoo, Threepio, and Chewie, plus the evil Kadann, et al. Most of the story takes place on Dagobah and Duro.
Summary: With Trioculus frozen in carbonite, the threat from the Empire seems temporarily abated and the heroes head to Dagobah to enroll Ken in an elite school that the Alliance has built there on the newly-christened Mount Yoda, site of a top-secret Alliance base. Meanwhile, Kadann, chief Prophet of the Dark Side, has his own plans to wrest control of the Empire and destroy the Alliance once and for all.
Review: I was utterly baffled by the choice to so unceremoniously pull the series' chief antagonist off of the board at the end of the last book. I guess they ran out of ideas for him and decided to playtest a few new villains, mid-series? Who even knows with these people. Maybe they really just thought they couldn't have the characters visit Bespin without freezing someone in carbonite. Any explanation you can think of is as likely as any other, at this point. I'm not entirely sure these books weren't generated by a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, if I'm honest.
Take this for example: “According to legend, the Jedi Prince wore a dome-shaped birthstone on a necklace chain.” Like, again, still, what is a Jedi prince and how does that even work, but also why are there legends about him? He's 9. And also, that's not even what a "legend" is . . . and why is it *so* specific? Where is any of this going?
Moving on, this time around we get a rhyming villain, always super-intimidating, and the characters contend with just plain-old regular pollution that has made the planet Duro unlivable. (I'm not sure, and can't be bothered to check, whether this was the book that established this fact about Duro in the canon, but anyway, there it is.) That's kind of a side-plot here, because this is one issue they can only comment on, but not fix.
Yadda yadda yadda. This is, blessedly, maybe the most forgettable of the series so far.
F
Background: Mission from Mount Yoda was written by [a:Paul Davids|20276453|Paul Davids|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and [a:Hollace Davids|30365|Hollace Davids|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and published in January 1993. It is the fourth book in the Jedi Prince series. The Davids wrote the whole series.
Mission from Mount Yoda begins just after Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (my review), a year after the Battle of Endor (5 years after the battle of Yavin). The main characters are Ken the Jedi Prince, Luke, Leia, Han, Artoo, Threepio, and Chewie, plus the evil Kadann, et al. Most of the story takes place on Dagobah and Duro.
Summary: With Trioculus frozen in carbonite, the threat from the Empire seems temporarily abated and the heroes head to Dagobah to enroll Ken in an elite school that the Alliance has built there on the newly-christened Mount Yoda, site of a top-secret Alliance base. Meanwhile, Kadann, chief Prophet of the Dark Side, has his own plans to wrest control of the Empire and destroy the Alliance once and for all.
Review: I was utterly baffled by the choice to so unceremoniously pull the series' chief antagonist off of the board at the end of the last book. I guess they ran out of ideas for him and decided to playtest a few new villains, mid-series? Who even knows with these people. Maybe they really just thought they couldn't have the characters visit Bespin without freezing someone in carbonite. Any explanation you can think of is as likely as any other, at this point. I'm not entirely sure these books weren't generated by a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, if I'm honest.
Take this for example: “According to legend, the Jedi Prince wore a dome-shaped birthstone on a necklace chain.” Like, again, still, what is a Jedi prince and how does that even work, but also why are there legends about him? He's 9. And also, that's not even what a "legend" is . . . and why is it *so* specific? Where is any of this going?
Moving on, this time around we get a rhyming villain, always super-intimidating, and the characters contend with just plain-old regular pollution that has made the planet Duro unlivable. (I'm not sure, and can't be bothered to check, whether this was the book that established this fact about Duro in the canon, but anyway, there it is.) That's kind of a side-plot here, because this is one issue they can only comment on, but not fix.
Yadda yadda yadda. This is, blessedly, maybe the most forgettable of the series so far.
F
rayn0n's review
4.0
The environmentalist flavor of the day is hazardous waste dumping with a side of "hey maybe don't steal or destroy other cultures' historical artifacts" Also C3P0 fixes something in the Millennium Falcon, which is the LEAST in character thing he's done thus far. Also Ken thinks that you have the same level of decision-making at 12 as you do 18, and Triclops' third eye doubles as a tractor beam.
jediprincess's review
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Another fun kid book!
verkisto's review
1.0
It took me until book four of this series to realize it, but "Jedi Prince" makes no sense. The Jedi aren't royalty.
Also, these authors LOVE them some acronyms. They're all over the place in these books.
Also, these authors LOVE them some acronyms. They're all over the place in these books.
octavia_cade's review
2.0
It's taken me some time to come back to this series, because the first three books were just so stupid, and I really mean they were dumb. But my desire to read Star Wars tie-in fiction from the beginning is forcing me to continue, and I suppose at least these are short. I will say, though, that this one is the best of the bunch. That's not saying much - the first three were all one star reads - and much of the same idiocy is repeated regarding names, but it's marginally less idiotic than the others. Though I shake my head at the hidden "good" son of the Emperor saying how if he takes his father's throne he'll start fixing things, because how about he starts fixing things by not taking the throne and returning to the basic democracy of the Senate before his dad started screwing things up in the name of power. No one calls him on it, though, that would require thought.
Honestly, these books would improve at least ten percent if the authors were forbidden from using the word "dark" because the dark prophets having dark visions and giving dark blessings is ridiculous. Might as well tattoo "we are evil" on their foreheads...
Honestly, these books would improve at least ten percent if the authors were forbidden from using the word "dark" because the dark prophets having dark visions and giving dark blessings is ridiculous. Might as well tattoo "we are evil" on their foreheads...
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