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I finished Children of the Jedi just in time to get Dungeon Crawler Carl for my birthday, the entire series.
So I finished book 1 yesterday and am moving on to read Darksaber before going to Carl book 2. Tough decision haha.
Goddamnit Donut!
What did you think of Children of the Jedi? I have thoughts, but am interested to hear what you thought.
I… didn’t enjoy it, I don’t know if was the author, or just an issue with the publication era if that makes sense.
They introduced characters like you knew who they should be, I had just finished reading the Jedi Academy trilogy, so was super confused about Cray and Nico’s at first. I get introducing characters to flesh out later in other stories, but it just wasn’t well done.
What were your thoughts?
I completely agree with you. I wanted to know what you thought before I started crapping on it, but I think Hambly’s books are the two in the EU that I enjoyed by far the least.
There are others in this era that are quite good, so I really do think it’s the author/writing style/choices in this case. You’ve got some good stuff coming though (if you’re reading in chronological order), so enjoy! :)
My brother whom I’m borrowing the books from has read a couple of the further sagas and is waiting for me to get to them.
I’ve loved reading from the beginning even before Banes rule of 2.
He’s just starting to get the comics, so I’ve missed the Emperor Risen arc, so I’ll have to go back to that one eventually. Also none of young adult books either. I’ve heard… mixed things about them.
I loved the Bane trilogy - they might even be my favorite books from the EU.
The Jedi Academy YA books are pretty good for what they are - I’d recommend at least trying them. The actual children’s books not so much.
I’m about to start the New Jedi Order books, and I’m waiting for everything to go completely off the rails.
There just sounds like there’s such good lore in them, a lot of the old republic era is YA if I’m not mistaken. But it’s for ages 8-14(?) so the quality and content is all over the place.
My brother gave me his old Thrawn trilogy copies when I got back into reading, after those I read the two horror ones, death troopers and red harvest I think, and decided to go deep from the start. He had like 80% of the books found by then.
He buys them used while he travels.