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Another novel in the New Jedi Order. This time Anakin is attempting to save young Jedi from the Yuuzhan Vong. I enjoyed that this book concentrated on Anakin and it did have a Star Wars feeling to it. It never really captured me though. I think the reason for this is that Anakin's adventure was too quickly paced. I would have liked more adversity or the exploration of his relationship with his companion on the rescue mission. I did enjoy the ending and I could picture it being an ending in a mov
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For the most part, this book wasn't all that impressive. I didn't buy into the flighty and intense personality of Tahiri, which made it difficult to care about the experiment the Yuuzhan Vong were performing on her beyond the general fear factor of dangerous science experimentation. There's a possibility that I could have liked her more if I had read more of the Young Jedi Series, but she just didn't attract me as anything more than a plot device to spur Anakin on.
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