Of the many Star Wars Expanded Universe novels I have read, Barbara Hambly's "Children of the Jedi" ranks somewhere in the middle. I've certainly read much better books in the series, but I've also read worse. Coming off the heels of reading Dave Wolverton's horribly cheesy "The Courtship of Princess Leia", this book was superb.Hambly is a talented writer who clearly has a knack for developing character depth. In this book, in particular, she gives the character of Princess Leia much more charac...

this book confused the hell outta me, i have good reading comprehension skills, but i had no clue what was going on in this book

Children of the Jedi is a novel I'd really like to say is not an essential read for anyone looking to get into Star Wars books. In fact, the novel is severely lacking the excitement that is Star Wars. I once received this book years back as a gift and after reading it through I was blown away of how bizarre, out of place and drab this story was.It's practically a trippy fever dream through half of it, as our main cast of characters, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are separated for th...

The majority of the reviews for Children of the Jedi are either saying it's among the worst of the Star Wars novels...or among the best. My feelings on it were more moderate; it wasn't amazing, but it also wasn't terrible. The story was decent, although nowhere near as enthralling as any of the movies. The writing was also passable. In fact, pretty much everything about Children of the Jedi was mediocre; so much so, that I can only recommend it to die-hard Star Wars enthusiasts, or those who hav...

Here's the thing: I have an upchuck reflex just thinking about this book. I know that I should say, "HATEY HATE HATE SO BAD!" because that's what I'm doing without even thinking about it. I remember laughing at this and ranting about how bad it was, and I remember it being one of the few SW books I gave away. ... and unfortunately, now, eight years or so after I read this, I have no idea why. So, ah, take it with a grain of salt.

Children Of The Jedi picks up a little after the previous book with Luke encountering The Eye of Palpatine and getting to hang out with Callista a Jedi who has literally attached herself to the gunnery controls of the ship! :D This produces a clever dynamic throughout as Luke (who spends most of the book wounded and keeping an eye out for a Bacta tank! :D ) struggles to find away to save her but at the same time to blow the ship to kingdom come! :D The situation is compounded as the ship has bee...

Probably the worst SW book I've read. Lame, derivative, pointless. Hambly tosses the usual SW suspects into a moonlet; introduces the obligatory Palpatine clone/hand/minion/offspring; starts the ticking clock, and it still comes out with a hodgepodge of seemingly plagiarized elements.Did Hambly read other SW novels before writing this? No, did she see the movies? She apparently doesn't understand what the Force is or how it works (or doesn't). She included the cliches, but not the spirit of Star...

I had a sort of mixed reaction in reading Children of the Jedi, because it didn't work for me on a literary level and it frustrated me just due to the contradictory nature of most of its entirety. The timeline is crazy wrong, which normally can be forgiven because it predates the prequel trilogy, but at the same time the author can't manage to get the continuity from the previous Jedi Academy series which precede the events of this book. She somehow manages to switch up who destroyed the Sun Cru...

Not terrible, but very underwhelming. The whole Luke/Callista subplot was a little weird. There were a few moments that I felt clashed a bit with the Star Wars continuity, but nothing that really bothered me. The biggest problem was that the book felt extremely long with very little plot advancement going on. A more concise story would have been more enjoyable. The author also had an annoying tendency to add paragraphs of irrelevant description in the middle of dialogue, causing the reader to lo...

I've read quite a few Star Wars books in my time and not all of them were great. But Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly is without question the worst Star Wars book ever written. I had to fight to get through the book and found the story to be quite lacking in every department. The romance between Luke and Callista seemed forced and was a complete turn off. Children of the Jedi is easily one of the worst books I've ever read and is a black eye on the Star Wars franchise. I don't know how thi...

If you ever get your hands on a copy of this book. This is your only warning. Burn It!!!!

Ok i'm gonna be honest and say there is a few books in the star wars expanded universe that you should avoid and this is one of them.Maybe its just me but i found this book boring and a challenge to finish it.

The great Jedi Master Luke passes out - Times Four!Han, Luke, and Leia are on Ithor, enjoying the beautiful Time of Meeting, when an old associate of Han's appears and leaves them with a cryptic message. This message leads Han and Leia to the mysterious world of Belsavis, and Luke and his students, Cray Mingla, brilliant scientist, and her fiancee, Nichos Marr, head to the Moonflower Nebula. Both quickly uncover a plot by a former Emperor's Hand to destroy Belasavis.NOTE: I read this book years

THIS IS A TWO-POINT-FIVE-STAR BOOK and it's sort of killing me to round up to 3, but here we are.Children of the Jedi has some interesting ideas about the nature of humanity, as well as some interesting settings. How close to human intelligence is artificial intelligence? How far are you willing to go to save a loved one? Do people ever really change? It's also setting up a Boys from Brazil-esque hunt for Imperials who beat the system by hiding out on Planet Nowheresville, but it looks like you'...

Unless you are a SW completeist, avoid this book (and all others by Hambly) like the plague! Hell, even if you MUST have every SW book printed, just don't read it-put it on the shelf with your collection and never touch it again. Barbara Hambley's books are filled chock full with fail and aids-I've even tried reading her non-SW fic, and it's like reading bad fan fiction online. I won't even deign to give this book a single star. Blech!

Slow to develop but it comes to a nice end regardless.

C-390 was good. Learned interesting stuff about stormtrooper indoctrination. General plot and also the romance was passe at best.

What a weird, weird book... After almost a decade, I thought it would be fun to check out some of the Star Wars novels that I had not checked out before. I had indeed heard plenty of the negative fan reactions surrounding this and some of the other novels that had been released as part of the early bloom of EU volumes in the 1990s (especially Vonda McIntyre's Crystal Star, which will have to wait for another day), but I figured it might still be worth a read. Maybe I was just drawn in by the col...

For 2020, I decided to reread (in publication order) all the Bantam-era Star Wars books that were released between 1991 and 1999; that shakes out to 38 adult novels and 5 anthologies of short stories & novellas.This week’s focus: Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly.SOME HISTORY:Kevin J. Anderson approached Barbara Hambly at a convention about writing a story for Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, and when Bantam heard she was interested they asked her “why not a novel?” Hambly was told by her...

Easily one of the most offensively stupid books I've read with Star Wars written on the cover. It's a dull, stilted, poorly conceived "adventure". It makes Attack of the Clones look like Citizen Kane.