Friday, July 10, 2009

Star Wars: Jedi Academy 1: Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson


A guest review by Teen Room Staff Jeremy!

In this first installment of Kevin J. Anderson’s Star Wars trilogy, Luke is beginning his search across the galaxy for Jedi pupils to re-create the Jedi order, Han and Chewie crash on Kessel and become slaves, and Leia gets re-united with her children, all in the first fifty pages. Luke eventually locates two students and proceeds to go with Lando to find Han and Chewie, Meanwhile, Han and Chewie escape the spice mines along with Kyp, a fellow miner, and enter the enormous cluster of black holes near Kessel with Kyp using his fledgling force abilities to guide them. . . right into a remnant fleet of star destroyers. While imprisoned, again, Han manages to convince one of the scientists in the research facility to check the true uses of the world devastators she designed. With her new knowledge in hand, she helps the three escape in her newly built Sun Crusher, which Han proceeds to use to ram through a Star Destroyer, sending it into a black hole. Eventually, Han and Luke re-unite with Han being chased by Imperials and Luke being chased by angry spice miners. The group eventually escapes back to Courescant, and to relative safety. While this whole event was taking place, Leia and Mon Mothma decided that Yavin 4, the previous Rebel base, would be the perfect location for Luke’s Jedi Temple.

--Jeremy

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