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by: Barbara Hambly
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553572933
ISBN: 0553572938
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: June 01, 1996
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: June 01, 1996
Sales Rank: 123859
Studio: Spectra
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Product Description:
In Children of the Jedi, Barbara Hambly introduces a new character: Callista, a brave Jedi warrior of long ago who gave her life to foil one of the Empire's darkest plans, a plot to destroy a stronghold that was sanctuary for the wives and children of the Jedi knights. Suddenly, the dreadnought is rearming itself, intent on destruction. Only Luke Skywalker can feel its evil presence as well as the mysterious influence of that powerful woman who should have died decades ago.
Amazon.com Review:
As Children of the Jedi opens, a crazed, drug-addled ex-smuggler named Drub McKumb lunges at Han Solo in the middle of his and Leia's state visit to Ithor. (Long after the destruction of the second Death Star, Leia is now the New Republic's work-weary head of state.) Han, Leia, and Luke soon surmise that this isn't just another of Han's drinking buddies but rather a weirdly altered man carrying a terrible secret. Piecing together clues from McKumb's glossolaliac rants, Han and Leia set off in search of the ancient hiding place of the Children of the Jedi, while Luke--using the Force and his former-pupil-and-pal-turned-droid Nichos as a random number generator--decides to head off to a set of coordinates halfway across the galaxy.
They all end up finding more than they bargained for: Han and Leia's search for the Jedi ends on icy, isolated Belsavis; while Luke stumbles onto a humongous but dormant Imperial death machine- -which, not coincidentally, has stirred to life the intent to utterly annihilate Belsavis. Can he possibly stop it in time? Star Wars authors tend to be either you-love-'em-or-you-hate-'em types, but veteran writer Hambly makes a good go at falling into the former camp in this outing, along with the likes of Michael Stackpole and Kevin J. Anderson. --Paul Hughes
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Crazy Painful read... 3PO accidental main character
Disregarding the redundant plot, this book was absolutely painful to read. It's as if the author determinately used this book as a vocabulary builder. There are endless prose that makes no sense and connects to nothing. The story goes nowhere until page 184... then proceeds to regress into blather until a hundred pages later. The reader doesn't earn the revelation of Irek's power over droids he just comes out "it's me!" tada! And with Luke badly hurt most of the work on the Eye of Palpatine revolves ... Read More
Rating: - AVOID this book like the PLAGUE!!
I purchased this book when it was first released (1996??). I remember now why I couldn't finish it the first time. The plot is absurd. The pace of the book is excruciating slow. The author, Barbara Hambly, constantly uses 50-60 words to describe a scene when it only calls for 10-20. You're stuck reading this elaborate and way too wordy paragraph describing a tree or flower that does not have anything to do with the story.
I've read just about all the books in the SW universe involving ... Read More
Rating: - AWFUL!!!!!
I have read all of the Thrawn Trilogy which is amazing, The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire, The Han Solo Trilogy, The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy, The Corellian Trilogy,and the ENTIRE New Jedi Order. I decided to go back and read the few i skipped at the time. This is by far the WORST Star Wars book i have ever read. I cant even believe they let Hambly write another after this atrocity. The characters are not Star Wars characters and the story is hard to follow and hardly even makes any sense. ... Read More
Rating: - Coffee cups??
An already mediocre book in which the author places "coffee cups" in the Millennium Falcon. The author appears to have been simply cashing in on the book deal without any real understanding of the Star Wars universe. She could have called them anything else, and this reader would not have wanted to blast this book out of the air lock.
Rating: - endolev
Very painful reading. I felt bad for skipping this book in the series but so I acquired the audio book and it was as equally painful to listen to. I'm not even going to waste time on the planet of twilight since we can all see where this is going.
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