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Title: Dark Journey (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 10) by ELAINE CUNNINGHAM ISBN: 0-345-42869-2 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (118 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Was this really an NJO book?
Comment: Don't get me started on how horrible this book was. I was appalled that this could even carry the title "New Jedi Order." This is the worst book in the entire New Jedi Order series. It was all about Jaina and only about Jaina. There was almost no noticable plot and I think Jaina is a little old for being such a child. You think Anakin and Jacen are dead, that's no reason to regress to a child! This writer captured grief all wrong.
Rating: 4
Summary: There's something about Jaina
Comment: Lots and lots of character development for Jaina Solo. The other characters get some development but not much for anyone else. Elaine Cunningham keeps Jaina in the spotlight for the entire book with a few appearances by Jag Fel. All other concerns as battles , other characters and the Yuzzhan Vong invasion are secondary to Jaina. I'd have really liked a closer look at Hapan life and Tennenial Djo & Prince Isolder.
Rating: 1
Summary: Sassy Journey
Comment: Enter woman author #2 in the New Jedi Order series, Elaine Cunningham. Unlike Kathy Tyers, who essentially handles a typical sort of Star Wars story involving all the major characters, Cunningham focuses on Jaina in order to create what she must have envisioned as a women's Star Wars book, by a woman and about a woman. Romance and powerful, consuming emotions take center stage, with Jaina as the sassy vixen around whom it all revolves.
I am a woman, and I am offended by this insult to the maturity and intelligence of my gender.
Where to begin? Cunningham's writing is atrocious. She has neither a sense of continuity nor of how characters should be expected to react emotionally to events. Han and Leia have just lost one, maybe two children, so they joke around and flirt. Then, later, we get a few sentences about how profound their sadness is. How trite, Ms. Cunningham. It's good to know that the Solos were officially upset while fooling around on the Falcon. Similarly, every male in the galaxy seems (completely irrationally) to have the hots for Jaina Solo, who, sassy vixen that she is, is not adverse to indulging their fantasies. The book opens with Star Wars Spice Jaina sitting on Ganner's lap and making lewd comments about it. In the middle, she manipulates the usually practical Kyp Durron with her womanly wiles and unbelievable Force powers. The book closes with a gushingly sentimental Kyp "saving" his soul mate Jaina, who's taken her sassiness a little too far. This is as over-the-top as Moulin Rouge, but with only a fraction of the emotional depth.
Cunningham's treatment of the Force is as simplistic and flawed as her treatment of human emotions. In a series that focuses on questioning the nature of the Force, this novel is completely out of place. The message here seems to be that you can be totally evil (Cunningham might say "sassy") without going over to the dark side. Also, it seems more okay for Jaina to be evil (than it is for other people). Cunningham rewrites history, saying that Kyp used the Force to convince Jaina to help him in Greg Keyes' last book (Rebirth; and I thought Jedi mind tricks only worked on the weak-minded). This is bad of Kyp. Jaina uses such mind tricks frequently, and this is something that "not even Jacen would question."
These problems are only the tip of the iceberg. The book is filled with emotional non-sequitors, massive errors in continuity, and bawdy exploitation of the concept of "woman." So is there anything to like? Well...by far the best thing about the book is that Cunningham doesn't get to write Jacen or Anakin (and mess them up). Second to that? The book is short and not quite as pathetically childish as a Kevin J. Anderson book. Also, I guess the concept that Jaina is an awful and disconnected person makes sense...the authors of the series have been building that from the beginning. Her reaction to her brothers' situations should probably be reprehensible. However, the way Cunningham exploits this opportunity to write Jaina as a bad girl is really uncalled for. She warps other characters almost beyond repair in the process (especially Kyp) and seems to revel in Jaina's badness rather than condemning it. What's worst is that she passes off the evil that Jaina does as "girl power." Maybe this speaks to teen angst or something (I might have liked the book more back when I was an angsty teen), but only in a destructive way.
Conclusion: readers who can't resist the guilty pleasures of bad romances and bawdy women, rejoice; readers who want a reasonable treatment of the aftermath of the devastation in Star by Star, you're out of luck--your best bet is to read this with a sense of humor.
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Title: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 8) by Greg Keyes ISBN: 0345446100 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 13) by Matthew Woodring Stover ISBN: 034542865X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 7) by Greg Keyes ISBN: 0345428641 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 14) by Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 0345428749 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Balance Point (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 6) by Kathy Tyers ISBN: 0345428587 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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