Star Wars: Jedi Trilogy Boxed Set (Star Wars: Jedi Academy Trilogy) [Box set] [Paperback]

Kevin J. Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Wars: Jedi Academy Trilogy | Publication Date: October 6, 1997

Jedi Search; Dark Apprentice; Champions Of The Force. 3 Vols.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Here's another Star Wars trilogy for you, in a boxed set. When Han Solo and Chewbacca make a great escape from the deep spice mines of Kessel in Jedi Search, the first book, they think they'll be safe at last. Wrong! They wind up someplace far scarier. Han heists a Sun Crusher ship that will come in handy later. In book 2, Dark Apprentice, Luke's promising student at the Jedi Academy, Kyp Durron, dabbles with the Dark Side, and Admiral Daala starts hitting innocent planets with her Star Destroyers. In the finale, Champions of the Force, Luke lies suspended between life and death, Kyp is torn between good and evil, and the Sun Crusher is pitted against a prototype of the Death Star. Meanwhile, Leia tries to save Anakin, her baby with Han, from certain death. But most readers will probably care more about which is tougher, the Sun Crusher or the prototype Death Star. --Tim Appelo

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Spectra (October 6, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055364839X
• ISBN-13: 978-0553648393
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 3.1 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid, October 2, 2008

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M. burns - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars: Jedi Trilogy Boxed Set (Star Wars: Jedi Academy Trilogy) (Paperback)

For those that do not know the works of Kevin Anderson, he is a literary leech. He attaches himself to every major franchise (X-files, Dune, Star Wars) and ruins their legacy with his bad writing and poor plots. This series was the most pathetic star wars storylines that shows his complete misunderstanding of the Star Wars Universe. As mentioned by another review, I feel sorry for the other competent authors that now must take this into consideration into the Star Wars timeline. Ultimately, this series does not have the feel of Star Wars and is just another lame SciFi trilogy with the SW name attached.

Avoid this and all other Anderson works.

22 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst author in the galaxy., August 29, 2000

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P. David Westbrook (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars: Jedi Trilogy Boxed Set (Star Wars: Jedi Academy Trilogy) (Paperback)

Kevin J. Anderson is terrible. Not just terrible, uncommonly terrible, unfathomably terrible... NUCLEAR terrible. No doubt you have noticed that many reviews of Mr. Anderson's "work" are decidedly positive. Ignore these misguided souls. It is people like these who allowed TV's Urkel to become a cultural icon. They deserve your pity, not your trust.

What makes Kevin J. Anderson so remarkably bad is not his clunky dialogue, which stumbles along like a '58 Edsel with three tires. It is not his mishandling of the Star Wars characters, his flawed plot lines or his complete and total misunderstanding of the principles of "The Force," the foundation on which the entire Star Wars universe is based. What Kevin J. Anderson does that truly marks his place as the worst author ever to pen a Star Wars novel is that his miserable choices, made relatively early in the post-Return of the Jedi timeline, negatively impact all the novels that follow. Every flimsy character he writes, every contrived storyline he creates, every stock character he unceremoniously kills off becomes a part of Star Wars history that must be dealt with by other authors. The many mistakes of Kevin J. Anderson transcend his own novels to detract from future works. No author is perfect, but Anderson creations like Kyp Duron, Darksaber and The Sun Crusher will forever diminish the Star Wars universe, not to mention stealing a few prescious hours from the lives of his readers.

So, don't get roped in by the good reviews. Don't let the fact that Kevin J. Anderson's name appears under a lot of Star Wars titles (most of which are editing projects or comics) convince you that he is a talented, or even passable novelist. And above all, don't buy his books. Don't even read them. Just pretend they don't exist... just like Jar Jar Binks. You will be a happier and healthier Star Wars fan.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Man Only Has One Plot, August 4, 2007

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Jay Tea "Main Page Editor, www.wizbangblog.com" (Lebanon, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars: Jedi Trilogy Boxed Set (Star Wars: Jedi Academy Trilogy) (Paperback)

Evil, nasty, but stupid and inept bad guys get their hands on a superweapon that can destroy the universe, but the good guys rally around their innate goodness and sheer ginchiness and manage to defeat the bad guys and everyone lives happily ever after.

If that's what you want, go for it. If you want complex and competent villains, heroes that actually do more than hold hands and focus on how good they are, and characters of all stripes that are intelligent, try Timothy Zahn or some other notables.

And be very, very grateful Anderson hasn't tried his hand at Star Trek. We barely survived having Diane Carey as an editorial favorite.