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Title: The Fight for Truth (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 9) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0-590-52080-6 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another excellant Jedi Apprentice book.
Comment: Obi-Wan Kenobi isn't happy to hear that he and his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, will have to work with another master-apprentice team on their newest mission.... especially since the other apprentice is Siri, a girl who is two years younger than Obi-Wan but just as skilled. Obi-Wan finds Siri difficult to work with, and she seems hostile and unfriendly toward him. When Obi-Wan, Siri, and their masters land on the planet Kegan to search for a baby who may have the potential to be a Jedi, they descover a strange world that has not had any contact with off-worlders for over three decades. When they are exploring, Obi-Wan and Siri are mistaken for Keganite children cutting school, they are abucted and placed in a detention facility where children are drilled to accept the rule of the Kegan leaders. In this place where freedom is a memory and questioning authority strictly forbidden, Obi-Wan and Siri must rely on their connection to the force and to each other if they want to make it out alive. I highly reccomend this series to all Star Wars fans. It's a children's series, but you don't have to be a child to enjoy it - I'm several years older than the suggested age level, and the book had me on the edge of my seat.
Rating: 5
Summary: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Adi Gallia and Siri - a perfect book!
Comment: The Fight for Truth is the best book in the Jedi Apprentice series so far - I loved it. It's much better than #8, The Day of Reckoning:
Siri, 11 (who was mentioned in The Captive Temple two books back), has become Adi Gallia's apprentice. In The Fight for Truth, she and Adi are sent with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on a mission to the world of Kegan to test a Force-sensitive child - and she won't stop reminding Obi-Wan of his humiliating incident on Melida/Daan when he left Qui-Gon. To make matters worse, Siri fights only for herself, not Obi-Wan, when they are supposed to be fighting together.
Obi-Wan and Siri are separated from their masters not long after they arrive on Kegan, and because no one has landed on the planet for 30 years, the residents don't believe them when they say they're visitors. They are placed in the Learning Circle, a strict school where the information taught to students isn't even correct. When Obi-Wan and Siri tell the truth about it, they're given punishment marks, and made to clean the school kitchen.
During this time, O-Vieve, one of the two Benevolent Guides on Kegan, has a vision: darkness will come from the Jedi themselves (guess who? Anakin!), and therefore she refuses to let Qui-Gon and Adi stay any longer, fearing for the safety of Kegan. Qui-Gon and Adi must leave without their apprentices, and they are not allowed to take the Force-sensitive child with them to the Temple. But by now, Obi-Wan and Siri are in the Re-Learning Circle, a place much worse than the original Learning Circle, a place where Qui-Gon and Adi can't find them.
Be sure to read or buy this book - you don't want to miss it.
Rating: 4
Summary: The truth is, this series is still wonderful
Comment: Over the course of eight books (another author wrote book one), Jude Watson has consistently delivered delightful, wonderful stories, with only one disappointment. The Fight for Truth takes the series in a slightly different direction than the immediate predecessors. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are on a mission of peace for once, and the action is accordingly minimal. But Watson's story telling skills are such that we really don't mind. What should bother more people than it does (both the characters in the novel and we readers) is the Jedis' mission to take a young Force-sensitive child from her parents. True, the parents "want" the child to be raised as a Jedi, but why doesn't the Jedi penchant for depriving children of their parents trouble more people? For a while, there was a web-site run by Lucasfilm called "holonetnews", which was a mock news-site for events leading up to Attack of the Clones. There was an on-going "story" about a woman complaining that the Jedi had kidnapped her baby. That's a perspective that begs to be explored in a novel, although perhaps the Jedi Apprentice series with its young target audience is not the best place to do so.
Yet putting that aside, there's still a great deal to enjoy in The Fight for Truth. Here we begin to see the thirteen year old Obi-Wan maturing into the young man of The Phantom Menace as Obi-Wan is paired with a Padawan two years younger, and finds himself trying to mentor her. We also see more of Qui-Gon's headstrong stubborness (Remember Obi-Wan's plea "Master, don't defy the Council. Not again.") as he comes into conflict with future Council member Adi Gallia about how to accomplish their mission. It is these ever-changing, ever-developing aspects of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that make every Jedi Apprentice novel such a treat.
There are many who complain that the Jedi Apprentice novels are too short. I disagree. Edgar Allen Poe used to say that a mark of truly great literature can be read in one sitting. Each Jedi Apprentice novel more than satisfies that requirement. It's bite-sized Star Wars and it's delicious.
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Title: The Evil Experiment (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 12) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0439139317 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Defenders of the Dead (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 5) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0590519565 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Mark of the Crown (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 4) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0590519344 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Dangerous Rescue (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 13) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0439139325 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Ties That Bind (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 14) by Jude Watson ISBN: 0439139333 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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