Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi

When it comes to Star Wars characters, it's the baddies that I tend to love, but I still was interested in this book, and I rather liked it. It takes place pretty soon after episode 4, and the main idea of it is we see Luke in between the young wanna be rebel from ep 4 and the getting closer to being a Jedi in ep 5. Here, he has to figure it out on his own, and I rather liked how it unfolded.

I was interested in the premise, but the execution was seriously flawed.

When you write in first person from the perspective of a well-known character, it's absolutely VITAL to capture that character's "voice" (their vocabulary, mannerisms, etc.). This novel fails miserably. It intends to show Luke Skywalker between the destruction of the first Death Star and the Battle of Hoth, but the character we see in this novel isn't a cocky-kid-moisture-farmer-turned-hero; he's an insecure nerd with a knack for using big words in his internal monologue.

It certainly doesn't help that this entire story is a ship in a bottle: nothing in this novel adds to the overall mythos of the Star Wars universe.

I was ready to give up by chapter three, but plodded on in the hopes that it would improve. Sadly, it didn't.

This isn't going to change your life, but it's fun stuff. Recommended for fans of Luke &/or fans of Hearne.

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