Lit Kenobi by John Jackson Miller

With the news of an Obi-wan movie coming out (and unlike the Han/Yoda or Boba Fett movies I'm actually interested in this) I thought I'd give Kenobi a read.

I really enjoyed it, it's a fast page turner and is very much an old school style Western, with Obi wan being the mysterious Stranger ala Shane who rides into town with the Settlers and Sand People as the Cowboys and Indians. It also does the story from everyone else's point out of view rather than Obi-wans which is a nice touch, with the exception of the meditation scenes and which I thought were the books weakest bit, His reaction from Annilean being called Annie to talking with Y'Ark were great.

What I like about the book is that all the characters including the villain all have easy and understandable motivations and goals and it feels like a progression of what is happening, not simply Oh my god what have I done, now im gonna kill some kids type of thing. It develops really well.

Anyway what are other people's thoughts on the book ?

 

My favorite SW novel. Love the way Kenobi is portrayed. As a novel is only as strong as its villain, JJM creates a very memorable character in Orrin Gault. Gault's speeches to the moisture farmers are very well written. I also love how the novel adds to the tusken raider lore. Genre novels unfairly get a bad rep, but this is a great novel regardless of the fact it is a sci-fi or SW novel.

 

I am Duros.

 

Get you hence! There'll be no thread contradicting here, ya varmint!

 

Fixed

 

Not my fault the line was in the book. In the first chapter. JJM had no idea what we were talking about in the original Kenobi book thread.

 

This really a conversation you want to continue, bub?

 

Copy and pasted from the book itself. Page 1 or 2.

 

We both know that wasn't what you were going for.