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Is possibly better than the second one, but can’t really tell because I skim-read it.

October 6, 2015 by narfna 2 Comments

Never again with this series! If I ever, ever get the urge to re-read it again, somebody smack me in my face-ular area. In all seriousness, I can’t tell if this book was genuinely better than the last one or not, because I sped-read most of it, focused only on the parts that caught my attention, and skipped large chunks of it that seemed stupid or boring. Anyway, it didn’t fill me with rage. I’m not going to go into huge detail, or really any […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: champions of the force, kevin j. anderson, narfna, science fiction, star wars, the jedi academy, tie in novels

narfna's CBR7 Review No:133 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: champions of the force, kevin j. anderson, narfna, science fiction, star wars, the jedi academy, tie in novels ·
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This book is insultingly bad.

September 30, 2015 by narfna 10 Comments

Ugh, this was bad. So, so, so, so bad. I can’t believe I never knew how bad this was when I read it fourteen years ago. The first one wasn’t this bad! What’s going on? I mean, this is just BAD WRITING 101. If I was teaching a How to Write Fiction class, I would use this book as the perfect example of what NOT to do. This is going to be a bit different than my normal reviewing style; I’m going to do one with […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: dark apprentice, kevin j. anderson, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, the jedi academy trilogy

narfna's CBR7 Review No:132 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: dark apprentice, kevin j. anderson, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, the jedi academy trilogy ·
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The first mediocre book in what turns out to be a pretty awful series.

September 18, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was the first Star Wars expanded universe book I ever read, and as mediocre as it is, it’s primarily responsible for my obsession with Star Wars (and the EU) throughout my last two years of high school. Simply by existing, it was awesome back then. There was MORE STORY after the movies. More OFFICIAL STORY. Now, though, I have higher standards. It was fun to revisit this book that I liked when I was sixteen, again, mostly because it existed, but nostalgia was really the only […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: expanded universe, jedi search, kevin j. anderson, narfna, star wars, star wars legends, the jedi academy trilogy

narfna's CBR7 Review No:130 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: expanded universe, jedi search, kevin j. anderson, narfna, star wars, star wars legends, the jedi academy trilogy ·
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