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dp4m
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2/7/03 8:22pm
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RE: "Champions of the Force," by Kevin J. Anderson [Bantam, 1994]
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Synopsis:"Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han's baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke's former protégé Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!"
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2/11/03 6:43pm
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I didn't think this was too bad, and the end (IMO) was written well. The only bad part was Daala. She was kinda a physhotic madwoman.
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2/12/03 11:40am
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This book made me wonder if KJA had ever seen the movies. The feel of this book was all off.
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2/12/03 2:24pm
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I didnt think it was that bad, but Daala really was extremely psycho. But then, you would be too if you were Tarkins ex-lover.
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2/12/03 5:39pm
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"Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han's baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke's former protégé Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!"
I rate it an eight, it was aimed at the middle audience and it seemed perfect for me. The redeeming of Kyp was nice, he had great potential and most of it has been developed. Tionne was a good character to make a reference to the old jedi(the great sith war) -- nice tie in with Exar Kun.
Couple of things I didn't like:
Daala and KJA's hints of Winter - Ackbar -- sick man.
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2/15/03 8:29pm
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I give it a 3. It is a bad final for a generally enjoyable series, if it was on the same level as the Jedi Search and Dark Apprentice, the JAT overall would have a fonder place in my memory. This book really ruined it. There was absolutely no plot to speak of, the villains were dumber than ever this time, and all the rushing between Maw Cluster, Kessel, DS Prototype, Sun Crusher and smugglers was annoying as hell.
But I'm glad that Daala survived. She's not as dumb as the other villains Anderson created-she's a bit too hot-headed and plain luckless. But at least she's a survivor, I like villains who don't easily go away.
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2/15/03 11:09pm
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8 - Still a great book, but not as good as some of the others.
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2/22/03 6:32pm
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Great book. 9 out of 10.
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2/23/03 3:14am
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RE: "Champions of the Force," by Kevin J. Anderson [Bantam, 1994]
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one of my favorite books of all time. 10
I love how well it shows Kyp's manipulation... I love how it shows how an essentially good person can do very evil things... I love Kyp's redemption, at the end... and how he was afraid to use the force...
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2/26/03 2:09pm
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A 8 easilly. 
I'll wrap up my review tour of all 3 Jedi Academy novel's here fittingly. 
The "final confrontation books" in a series are always awesome to read. Kyp goes bezerk blowing up Sun's with the dreaded Sun Crusher and accidently kills his brother Zeth. Very intriguing sidestory by the way.  Han snaps him out his doomsday mission and our heroes square off againest bad guys from all sides.
I admit this book can be difficult to follow at many points with the dozen's of storys that grow off but all of them ended up meeting in the end. Loved when Furgan bit the big one and the whole action sequence on Anoth.
The end battle could off been done up a bit more but it was a very fullfilling end for the trilogy. Exar Kun gets vanquished from the spirit realm to who knows were and Daala gets ousted from a victory by a Nebulon B Frigate, 4 Corellian Corvettes, and her precious Sun Crusher.
Enjoyed when the Death Star prototype and the Sun Crusher tango'd as well.
Bravo.
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2/26/03 3:41pm
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I give it a 3.
I didn't care for it at all, but it still saved me from an otherwise boring evening.
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5/9/03 11:54am
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8
Found some parts pretty funny, especially Sivron and all the meetings/procedure stuff. Thought it was a good conclusion to the TJA series.
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8/14/03 11:02pm
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A book meant solely for Kyp Durron fans. All others need not bother.
Personally, I find Kyp Durron to be a bore. The whole "possessed by an ancient Sith lord" thing is just annoying, and KJA's tendency to go overboard with the superweapons is borderline silly.
Avoid it unless you're into Kyp and think Star Wars is only about Jedi and Sith.
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12/31/03 10:18pm
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Anderson delivers with the final chapter of the Jedi Academy Trilogy. The Solo twins become stars for the first time, which was a nice touch.
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darthmace7
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1/4/04 7:41am
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I love the trilogy, and this book was probably the best of them, in my opinion. I really enjoy Kyp and all his faults.
I give this a 10/10.
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