Should I read the Jedi Academy Trilogy or I, Jedi?

Yeah mara told him off good.

 

Mara has a tendency and skill for telling anyone off really well.

 

"The Emperor actually succeeded in wiping out the Jedi Knights, so he'd see you as the very definition of failure!" is just brutal.

 

That is so true.

 

I think Brakiss was actually first introduced in the YJK books.

 

I don't know, since I haven't read them. It depends on when they were published (New Rebellion was published in 1996).

 

Brakiss first appeared in book 2 of YJK: Shadow Academy, in September 1995.

The New Rebellion was published in December 1996, over a year later.

 

Kueller Deville
Kueller Deville
If he doesn't scare you, no Sith Lord will
To see him is to take a sudden chill.
Kueller, Kueller
He's like a rancor ready for the kill.
Look out for Kueller Deville

At first you think Kueller is a Sith Lord
But after time has worn away the shock
You'll come to realize
You have seen those yellow eyes
Watching you from underneath a rock.

That evil hawk bat, that inhuman beast
He oughtta be locked up and never released
The galaxy was a wholesome place until
Kueller, Kueller Deville

 

Awesome. Should go in the SW-ified Movie Quotes thread.

 

I think I have posted that before, but why not a second time?

 

I find it interesting that Brakiss's story was published "backwards": He first appeared in 1995 in YJK(23 ABY), then in 1996 in The New Rebellion(17 ABY), and then he briefly appeared in 1998 in I, Jedi(11 ABY).

 

Good point ^^^^^

 

I need to do a reading of Jedi Academy Trilogy.

 

It's worth it^^^^^^

 

The Jedi Academy Trilogy is unfortunately "important" in that it introduces a bunch of characters that never seem to go away in the future novels. If you're not a completionist though, I would wholeheartedly recommend you skip it. It's among the worst of the EU books, mainly because it features terrible writing and reads like a young adult novel, despite it being part of the adult series. I, Jedi is almost as bad, and if you skip the trilogy, there's no reason to read it.

What I do recommend beyond Hand of Thrawn is the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy. No, it's not "important" to the overall story, but it does have some of the more intriguing politics of the older novels, if you enjoy the headier Star Wars books over the pew pew spaceship battles of most of the other works.

Since this is an old post, did you wind up reading Jedi Academy? Did you enjoy it?

 

I was wondering the same thing if you read the series and if you enjoyed it