Whats This Another Review....

So I just finished reading a book and since I can't sleep I thought I would go ahead and throw up another review

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

This is the book that coincides with the animated movie that debuted in theaters not to long ago, I have not yet seen the movie but found the book immensely enjoyable. The book starts off with the kidnapping of Jabba the Hutt's son. Jabba is so distraught that he enlists the help of both the Republic (in the form of the Jedi Council) and the Sepratist's (mainly Count Dooku). So the book follows Anakin Skywalker and Obi-One Kenobi as they are the Jedi chosen for the mission of finding and returning Jabba's son. The book does a great job of giving us a glimpse inside of Anakin's head, it really sets the stage for the things that will eventually lead to Anakins falling to the darkside. As the book progress's you really get a feel for how much Anakin struggles with the situation that he has been placed in. Here he is barley a man himself and he is being told basically that he is the one who will save the galaxy, and early in the book he has a young Padawan thrust onto him. He was really interesting to see how the relationship progressed between the two of them. Now Anakin was once a slave to the Hutts, so he does not relish this mission one bit, especially when he see's most of his Clone Troopers lost to save one little Hutt, but as a Jedi he is bound to his mission and thus struggles with this balance throughout the book. There are some great moments in the book that you can really visualize while reading it (the mark of a great book in my opinion) My favorite was the battle between Anakin and Dooku's personal assassin Asajj Ventress. Ventress is a great character, her story is that while her planet was engaged in a bloody battle, a Jedi named Ky Nerac crashes on her planet and takes her under his wing, He is later killed and Ventress blames the Jedi for his death claiming the simply abadoned him, she later falls under Dooku's tutelage and is assigned to kill Anakin. The battle between the two takes place on a small landing platform and the book does a great job of narrating the battle. Overall I really enjoyed this book and was amazed at how quick of a read it was.

Overall Rating

9.0