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  • By: Kevin Hearne
  • Narrated by: Marc Thompson
  • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (508 ratings)
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Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars

By: Kevin Hearne
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Summary

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

A thrilling new adventure set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and - for the first time ever - written entirely from Luke Skywalker's first-person point of view.

Luke Skywalker's game-changing destruction of the Death Star has made him not only a hero of the Rebel Alliance but a valuable asset in the ongoing battle against the Empire. Though he's a long way from mastering the power of the Force, there's no denying his phenomenal skills as a pilot - and in the eyes of Rebel leaders Princess Leia Organa and Admiral Ackbar, there's no one better qualified to carry out a daring rescue mission crucial to the Alliance cause.

A brilliant alien cryptographer renowned for her ability to breach even the most advanced communications systems is being detained by Imperial agents determined to exploit her exceptional talents for the Empire's purposes. But the prospective spy's sympathies lie with the Rebels, and she's willing to join their effort in exchange for being reunited with her family. It's an opportunity to gain a critical edge against the Empire that's too precious to pass up. It's also a job that demands the element of surprise. So Luke and the ever-resourceful droid R2-D2 swap their trusty X-wing fighter for a sleek space yacht piloted by brash recruit Nakari Kelen, daughter of a biotech mogul, who's got a score of her own to settle with the Empire.

Challenged by ruthless Imperial bodyguards, death-dealing enemy battleships, merciless bounty hunters, and monstrous brain-eating parasites, Luke plunges head-on into a high-stakes espionage operation that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit. If ever he needed the wisdom of Obi-Wan Kenobi to shepherd him through danger, it's now. But Luke will have to rely on himself, his friends, and his own burgeoning relationship with the Force to survive.

©2015 Kevin Hearne (P)2004 Random House Audio

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A Fun Little Adventure

Heir to the Jedi is a fun little adventure book with little to offer but for the fact it's Star Wars, and more importantly considered canon.

Taking place after A New Hope, the novel follows Luke Skywalker from a first person perspective as he carries out various missions for the rebel alliance, leading up to an attempted rescue of a Givin who is under Empire control.

Along for the ride are R2-D2 and a burgeoning love interest Nakari Kelen. With the occasional appearance from Leia, Ackbar, Han and even Ben. But the focus is on Luke, and as it's written from his perspective we a privy to his thoughts and feelings on the force and what happened after he destroyed the Death Star.

The action and story plots are well paced and entertaining. Not amazingly written, but works well enough for this kind of tie-in and what you would expect from a title like this. Beneath the childish humour and cheesy sound effects (see below) hide however a rather dark and graphic book that can go from heads exploding to stupid one-liners in a paragraph. Along with this are quite a few downbeat moments that distract from the overall happy go lucky tone throughout.

The voice acting is great and Marc Thompson sounds as close to Luke as you could want. There are however a lot of sound effects and background music - running ships, jungles, lightsabers, robots - which may put a few people off.

Fun for what it is, but nothing special.

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A better universe

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Much more grounded than the previous (now retconned) Star Wars EU. It feels like it belongs with the movies and not with the lame over the top cheesy old EU books, where force powers just got crazier and crazier almost like each author was trying to outdo the previous. The book itself is good even if a little slow and cumbersome, it does however carry a nice piece of character development for Luke Skywalker off though.

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Favourite author, favourite narrator.

waited a long time for this one! almost as excited about it as I am for episode 7, great story well read. An easy 5 stars

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Mildly entertaining

Seems a bit of a low key adventure after the Battle of Yavin. There are however decent aspects of Luke finding his place in the Alliance and the Force. Narration is good but the female human chatacters are done badly. The Nakari character is especially gratting and the performance detracts from a decently written character. Such a stupid posh english accent. Leia sounds weak too. Some other characters are really well done though, including Luke.

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New Cannon has nothing on Legends

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I've read nearly all of EU books over the last 20 years. This is the first book where Luke Skywalker come off as a clumsy, whiny, insecure child. The book is clearly trying to cater to a young adult audience. With Luke worrying more about how to flirt and not get caught eyeing up his attractive college. If she is not about he spends his time trying to engage in learning how to use the force with noodles. The "action" events in the book come suddenly and are resolved even quicker, with no kind of tension, or consequences for mistakes. The supporting characters aren't that interesting and don't really carry the depth that similar characters from retconned Legends series have established in the last couple of decades.

I really hope this isn't the direction Disney and Del Rey are planning on taking the new supporting material.

What could Kevin Hearne have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I had major hate for references to modern concepts of political correctness and social situations that cause me to lose my immersion in the Star Wars universe. It's akin to doing a WW1 epic and having the character talk about Hard disk drive and the internet.

From the perspective of Luke, who is a farm boy in backwards desert planet that not long ago traded in slavery. He is use to hard work, dirt in the blistering heat. This maybe more of the performance than the book but he came across like he'd be worried he'd break a nail at times.

The action needed more work, again there was no tension in the scenes, everything was achieved as simply as it began. A lot of enjoyment I've had in other star wars novels are the characters finding themselves in impossibly complicated situations, then having to think on their feet to figure their way out of them. There was none of that in this novel, a blaster bolt here and there and it was over.



Which character – as performed by Marc Thompson – was your favourite?

Nothing really against the performance, they were all good, just that I found none of the characters engaging enough to really like. Even Luke, who in previous novels engaged the most with.

Do you think Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

It is likely inevitable there will be because of the franchise. My advice is Disney really needs to up there game with the supporting material. Instead of creating new uninteresting characters they should reinvent already loved characters from the EU/Legends.

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Not worthy of being in the Star Wars universe

What disappointed you about Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars?

This is a worthless addition to the Star Wars universe. It's just been written for the sake of writing a Star Wars book. This is the worst book I've ever read, I doubt a publisher would've had the balls to publish this book if they didn't know that people who love the Star Wars universe would buy it, many not caring of the virtues & quality of the story.

Has Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars put you off other books in this genre?

I will be a lot more cautious in wasting any more credits on Star Wars books before ensuring that it's worth being called a Star Wars book

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars?

From Page 1 to the last page

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Stay clear of this book

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the Narrator made this a 5*

If your a star wars fan then it is a must read purely to see what direction disney is taking the franchise now that most previous stories are no longer canon. The story itself was good even though was slightly predictable. However what made this for me was the Narrator. He did an outstanding performance each character had there own voice and personality also the emotion he portrayed in his voice made me care more than i probably would of if i'd of read the book. will be definitely checking out more novels he narrates. Overall not a bad start for the new star wars universe interested to see where they go next in the expanded universe.

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Fantastic

thoroughly enjoyed this book brilliant narrator would highly recommend Marc Thompson is a legend

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A great book

A great book and entertaniang as always Mark Thompson narration makes it all the better

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Well presented, but otherwise unremarkable.

I found this book interesting as an artifact, as it was written for the old EU before the relaunch, but released as canon after it, making it the only book that is technically both Canon and Legends.

Unfortunately that's about the only particularly interesting thing about this book. The narration is as good as we've come to expect from Star Wars, and the first-person perspective lends this story a different feel to others. That coupled with the point-of-view character being Luke Skywalker, one would think this would be a must-read. But it just isn't. The first part of the story is an excursion that serves little purpose but to momentarily pit Luke and his companion against a mildly scary type of monster, raise questions about the nature of said monsters, and then just leave that where it is and not do anything else with it while he goes on an entirely different mission.

Apart from being disjointed, the story is just not that interesting. It wasn't that long ago since I listened to it, but I've already forgotten the lion's share of the plot. I try not to put spoilers into reviews anyway, but I barely remember any to give even if I did. This, is the literary equivalent of a filler arc.

Having said that, if spending time with Luke Skywalker on an adventure-of-the-week style mission sounds good to you, then by all means don't let me stop you, I don't remember the moment-to-moment experience being bad, but as a whole in hindsight I can't honestly recommend it to anyone but the diehard completionist fan.

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