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The Fight for Truth (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 9)

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While it is not as exciting as some of the past Jedi Apprentice books, this book is a nice addition to the series. A simple Jedi mission turns out to be more complicated than first expected. One can almost imagine Jude Watson giving the main characters a sort of break after their last run in with Xanatos.

This story is good for kids as provides strong messages about working together and thinking for one's own self. The only drawback is the lack of time Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are together. This story does nothing to bring their relationship closer. However, there is an interisting hint into the future of the Jedi that ties this book into the Star Wars Universe. I would recommend that people read this if they want to stay in touch with the Jedi Apprentice Series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi isn't happy to hear that he and his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, will have to work with another master-apprentice team on their newest mission.... especially since the other apprentice is Siri, a girl who is two years younger than Obi-Wan but just as skilled. Obi-Wan finds Siri difficult to work with, and she seems hostile and unfriendly toward him. When Obi-Wan, Siri, and their masters land on the planet Kegan to search for a baby who may have the potential to be a Jedi, they descover a strange world that has not had any contact with off-worlders for over three decades. When they are exploring, Obi-Wan and Siri are mistaken for Keganite children cutting school, they are abucted and placed in a detention facility where children are drilled to accept the rule of the Kegan leaders. In this place where freedom is a memory and questioning authority strictly forbidden, Obi-Wan and Siri must rely on their connection to the force and to each other if they want to make it out alive. I highly reccomend this series to all Star Wars fans. It's a children's series, but you don't have to be a child to enjoy it - I'm several years older than the suggested age level, and the book had me on the edge of my seat.

The Fight for Truth is the best book in the Jedi Apprentice series so far - I loved it. It's much better than #8, The Day of Reckoning:

Siri, 11 (who was mentioned in The Captive Temple two books back), has become Adi Gallia's apprentice. In The Fight for Truth, she and Adi are sent with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on a mission to the world of Kegan to test a Force-sensitive child - and she won't stop reminding Obi-Wan of his humiliating incident on Melida/Daan when he left Qui-Gon. To make matters worse, Siri fights only for herself, not Obi-Wan, when they are supposed to be fighting together.

Obi-Wan and Siri are separated from their masters not long after they arrive on Kegan, and because no one has landed on the planet for 30 years, the residents don't believe them when they say they're visitors. They are placed in the Learning Circle, a strict school where the information taught to students isn't even correct. When Obi-Wan and Siri tell the truth about it, they're given punishment marks, and made to clean the school kitchen.

During this time, O-Vieve, one of the two Benevolent Guides on Kegan, has a vision: darkness will come from the Jedi themselves (guess who? Anakin!), and therefore she refuses to let Qui-Gon and Adi stay any longer, fearing for the safety of Kegan. Qui-Gon and Adi must leave without their apprentices, and they are not allowed to take the Force-sensitive child with them to the Temple. But by now, Obi-Wan and Siri are in the Re-Learning Circle, a place much worse than the original Learning Circle, a place where Qui-Gon and Adi can't find them.

Be sure to read or buy this book - you don't want to miss it.

Wow! What can I say? If it were possible to give a book more that five stars, this one would definitely earn it. I am one of the large group of "older" readers who appreciates how well this excellent series augments the Star Wars universe, handling Qui-gon and Obi-wan's developing Master/Apprentice relationship with such an adroit touch. I have been a great fan of Watson's Jedi Apprentice books since #1 appeared on shelves, and have eagerly awaited each new publication. In my opinion, #9: The Fight for Truth, is one of the best in the series.

We have a world shrouded in secrecy. A mystery to be solved. Children in peril. Masters learning to cooperate to save their padawans. Padawans learning to cooperate to save themselves, and a chiling foreshadowing of tragic events to come in the Star Wars universe. A tale full of suspense and dangers.

My only complaint? A final chapter that wraps up things a mite too quickly and neatly for my taste... but that is speaking as an older reader who was intrigued by the entire political system described in the story. Younger readers will probably be unconcerned with the abrupt closure.

Once again, I do wish these books were longer... they are so good I want to prolong the enjoyment as long as possible. However, within the constraints of 138 pages, Watson does a remarkable job of telling a fully developed, complex story. Generally, it only takes me a short time to read these books, but this is the first one I have read cover to cover without a single break... it was that engrossing!

Read and enjoy!

Jude Watson writes a great story even while being constrained by a length that is predetermined. The last three books at 138, 134, and 137 pages respectively have got to diminish what she could do with these books if she were allowed to write the length she required. Why Lucas would so handcuff an Author mystifies me. I have yet to read a review that says these books are too long. This trend seems to be showing in the other series as well, and I find it disappointing.

If you have not brought yourself to reading these books due to the ages suggested on the books, you are missing out on Star Wars History in bits and pieces that do matter, and that I have not come across anywhere else. At 38 I am well past the targeted group, but with every new book more reviewers comments suggest any age level enjoys these books.

This book breaks up the male dominated story lines which is positive for the young female Jedi that have always been in the audience, but have never had enough characters, especially Jedi, representing them in the series.

My comment in the title is just a request. We have gone 15 months since Episode I and we have 22 months to endure to Episode II. How about letting Ms. Watson and the other writers tell their stories with any length they require. There were several issues in this book that got one sentence treatment that deserved much more.

Even in their too short format the books are fun, and tips about the future, and comments that tie other formerly unknown topics together, always make these tales worthwhile.

As the other eight books this one was also facinating to read and a real enjoyment. As a die-hard Star Wars fan I love this series because of my addiction to Obi Wan Kenobi {since EP-1} and the love of the Jedi. I admire Qui-Gon too and love reading endless amounts of information on there Master-Padawon relationship. My only worry is the series will end!There have been nine books and Obi is still 14! KEEP 'EM COMING!

Over the course of eight books (another author wrote book one), Jude Watson has consistently delivered delightful, wonderful stories, with only one disappointment. The Fight for Truth takes the series in a slightly different direction than the immediate predecessors. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are on a mission of peace for once, and the action is accordingly minimal. But Watson's story telling skills are such that we really don't mind. What should bother more people than it does (both the characters in the novel and we readers) is the Jedis' mission to take a young Force-sensitive child from her parents. True, the parents "want" the child to be raised as a Jedi, but why doesn't the Jedi penchant for depriving children of their parents trouble more people? For a while, there was a web-site run by Lucasfilm called "holonetnews", which was a mock news-site for events leading up to Attack of the Clones. There was an on-going "story" about a woman complaining that the Jedi had kidnapped her baby. That's a perspective that begs to be explored in a novel, although perhaps the Jedi Apprentice series with its young target audience is not the best place to do so.

Yet putting that aside, there's still a great deal to enjoy in The Fight for Truth. Here we begin to see the thirteen year old Obi-Wan maturing into the young man of The Phantom Menace as Obi-Wan is paired with a Padawan two years younger, and finds himself trying to mentor her. We also see more of Qui-Gon's headstrong stubborness (Remember Obi-Wan's plea "Master, don't defy the Council. Not again.") as he comes into conflict with future Council member Adi Gallia about how to accomplish their mission. It is these ever-changing, ever-developing aspects of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan that make every Jedi Apprentice novel such a treat.

There are many who complain that the Jedi Apprentice novels are too short. I disagree. Edgar Allen Poe used to say that a mark of truly great literature can be read in one sitting. Each Jedi Apprentice novel more than satisfies that requirement. It's bite-sized Star Wars and it's delicious.

YES this was defenatly a wonderful book! It doesn't have as much adventure as the others, but it has an extreme amount of new charectors, great lines, and some weird forshadowing. I think it's neat that Jude has some forshadowing in her books. I beleive that this is one of the best, but then arn't they all! I know some people didn't like the lack of adventure, and one person said there wasn't enough plot, but it's a great book in MY oppinion!

I have been waiting for Jedi Apprentice #9 for a very long time, and I have to say that this book dosent disapoint. My only complant is that it was to short. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wans realationship felt much more warmer, like a master, padawan realationship should. Though I still wish that Qui-Gon would tell Obi-Wan about some of his thoughts, or maybe some of his VISHIONS! Though the ending was a littal frustrating the book was still a masterpeice and I would give it 10000 stars if I could. Jedi Apprentice #9 had action that almost through me off my seat, and in some parts it was so funny it almost did the same. All the books are so butifuly worded you must read all of them. Please do not pass these butiful books up, if you do you are really missing out.

Althought the UPS guys delayed my order a couple of days, I really enjoyed #9 (once I finally read it). Now that Obi is off probation and offically a Padawan Learner again, he and Qui have a much stronger bond that was nice to see. The two of them, along with Adi Gallia and her apprentice, a young girl named Siri, go to the planet Kegan. Kegan is an isolated planet and they brainwash all the inhabitants and monitor them in a Orwell-esque kind of way. It was very creepy, and the visions of the "hospitality guides" forshadowed the events of Anakin's fall very well. The last paragraph, with Qui-Gon's vision, was equally chilling and very well done. I can't wait for #10!