Diversity Alliance (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights) [Mass Market Paperback]

Kevin J., Jr. Anderson (Author), Rebecca Moesta (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425169537
• ISBN-13: 978-0425169537
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Book, November 12, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Diversity Alliance (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 8) (Paperback)

Do you like Star Wars? Well if you do you should read the book the Diversty Aliance part of the Jouner Jedi Kinghts series. Its about after the movies. Its hard to compare to any series because most of the other books are about the movies. The book the Diversty Aliance is about a group of aliens called the Diversty Aliance that are looking for a plague that can kill all human life but aliens are immune to it. There leader has sent allmost every bounty hunter to find it. I think it was a good book for ages 9-13 I read this book in 1day. I liked it because I`m a Star Wars fan and you get to read about some old charters like Han Solo And some new ones like Louwe.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book that does credit to the series, January 5, 2001

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"kandladin" (Castle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diversity Alliance (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 8) (Paperback)

I have always thought the first series of Young Jedi Knights (Heirs of the Force, Shadow Academy, The Lost Ones, Lightsabers, Darkest Knight, and Jedi Under Siege) to be superior to this series (Shards of Alderaan, Diversity Alliance, Delusions of Granduer, Jedi Bounty, and The Emperor's Plague) simply because the foe was a little more interesting to me, and the characters seemed a bit better fleshed out. Now that I am older however, and reading these again for the first time in several years, I have more of an open mind and I realized that this second series is in fact very good, and, while it doesn't have as much action as the first series, the character development is superb. In this book Raynar's mother calls him to come home and be with her while his father is missing. He does and is accompanied by Jacen , Jaina, Tenel Ka, and Lowie who wish to keep him company and give him moral support while he gets settled but as you can propably guess, things do not go exacly as planned, and soon they are all off on an adventure to Kuar to try and discover where Raynar's father might have gone, with the absence of Raynar, who stays with his mother. Through epic battles with giant combat arachnids and assasin droids, they begin to discover that Raynar's father could be hiding for more reasons than his reputation, and that in fact there is a high probability that he is in fact hiding a secret that could destroy the galaxy... So anyway, this was a great book, though it would make more sense if you have already read all the previous books in the series, including the ones from the first series. One of the few things I don't really like that much about this series, is that everyone has to have someone else to "like". This gets incresingly annoying as the series goes on and the kids get older. And lets face it, Raaba's only purpose of existance is so Lowie will not be left out of all this. Zekk started out that way too, but luckily he now has his own place in the Star Wars world other than The Boy Jaina Likes, so I guess there is still hope. One of the good things is that it only goes as far as mild crushes and never all that boyfriend/girlfriend, breaking up and all that, so that is good thing, especially for someone like me who is not very big on romance at all, especially imature teen romance which seems to be so popular.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars, August 5, 2007

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Andromeda (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diversity Alliance (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 8) (Paperback)

I really didn't expect to like this book after reading Shards of Aldderaan where there was that big error about Luke's birthday but I had liked the other previous Young Jedi Knight books so I gave it a try and was happy I died. Raynar summoned home by his mother to find his father is missing. Aliens (non-humans) are after a plague that could kill humans but not aliens. I found the idea that aleins untying against humans to be very a very creative plot. Once again the charactoriations impress me. I love charactors that are fleshed out.