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Champions of the Force (Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Vol. 3) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin Anderson
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 186534
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 055329802X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553298024
ASIN: 055329802X
Publication Date: September 1, 1994
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Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han's baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke's former protUgU Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!
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 Unbelievably bad writing. October 1, 2008
I love Star Wars. I really, really do. And there had to be a series about the reignition of the Jedi Order. But this was unbelievably bad.
The problem is that this whole trilogy could literally have been written in one book. Every other page is a shallow re-explanation of the information provided in the previous chapters and novels. I mean, for god's sake, how many times do you have to have it explained in DFR and CotF that Kyp Durron was caught in the Maw with Han and Chewie, imprisoned, interrogated, and made a vow that he'd never be that weak and helpless again? I'm pretty sure that I could find you at least three passages in DFR and at least two in CotF that say the Exact. Same. Thing. If you've already read it once in the book, do you need to see it the second and third times? Unless you suffer from short-term memory loss, I'll bet not.
It is poor writing at best. Worse, it is a ridiculous attempt to try to soak a multi-book deal out of a publisher, and it shouldn't have happened.
For shame.
 Champions of a Flop July 2, 2008
I was really excited to read this trilogy. Last summer I read through the Thrawn trilogy and was pleased by a nice realistic story. Right after that i picked up the first of this trilogy and was so disappointed. Well after getting through that book the second one, Dark Apprentice, which was more i style i could enjoy.
I felt great getting into this book. I was anticipating some good jedi battles, and the forging of the new jedi academy. Well guess what to all those who haven't read this...it happens within the first 150 pages.
I haven't finished reading this yet and i really don't know why I want to.
The chapters jump around every 5-10 pages, the secondary plot line never interested me, and I have notice rehashed lines from the movies. On top of these obvious problems with the writing the worst part of it all is the predictability. The New Republic gets in some problems, and guess what? They come out with out any major problems.
The one character that i really started to like and still do is Kyp. He is a character that i like as much a Mara Jade for one reason...He isn't in the movies and he will re-appear through out the series. I am interested to see where his character goes and how the effects in these last books will effect the over all out come of story.
I gave this book 3 star because i felt like it had potential but ran out of steam really fast. I hope for the next books to be much better, and more enjoyable, but this was a good try.
 Read it if you must August 1, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good story, terrible writing.
Anderson's prose is trite, unimaginative, and, far too often, simply laughable. Which is a shame because the story is compelling.
This is a key part of the Star Wars extended universe, however. So, read it if you must. But you've been warned.
 A Fine Book! March 14, 2006
I love the Jedi Academy Series and I love this book. I really like this book out of the series. A great way to wrap up a fantastic series.
Not much more to say, I just loved this book very much.
What a great finale to the Jedi Academy Trilogy. December 19, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My goodness. I deeply enjoyed this book and Dark Apprentice, both of which express the challenge of the jedi and the temptation of the dark side. The trilogy explains of how Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi praxeum (academy) and how his students are tempted to the dark side by Exar Kun, an ancient sith lord who had had his spirit entrapped in the New Jedi Order's temple on Yavin IV.
The highest ranked female officer in the Empire everywhere, Admiral Daala, is trying to become a force to be reckoned with in the galaxy, along with her force of four Star Destroyers (of which has been halved since the beginning of the trilogy). Daala is a suicidal commander, and is sacrificing ship after ship to the attempt to wound the New Republic. You can guess where this crusade will end.
Kyp Durron, the greatest of Luke's students, embraces the dark side and decides to become the Lord of the Sith. He takes a stolen doomsday device, the Sun Crusher (which destroys entire systems instead of just planets like the Death Star), and goes on a rampage throughout the core worlds, destroying three star bodies before coming to his senses again.
I will not give the entire book series, but that is a general outline. It is very good for any fan of Star Wars or the science fiction genre in general. Kevin J. Anderson is not the best author, and sometimes I notice screwups in his writing, and I am not exactly a professional. Also, I looked through his acknowledgements, and he says he has someone transcribe the story through tapes. There is lazy for you. :-)
This book contains much about the Star Wars Universe and I recommend it to all. It has a fairly complex plot, and yet is simple at the same time. Also, everyone should read the Thrawn trilogy. It is quite obvious that THAT book series is my most favorite.
Long live the Galactic Empire!
Your lord and master,
Grand Admiral Thrawn
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