Name: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back So You Want to Be a Jedi?
ISBN: 9781484709146

Adam Gidwitz

Acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Adam Gidwitz delivers a captivating retelling of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back like you've never experienced before, infusing the iconic, classic tale of good versus evil with a unique perspective and narrative style that will speak directly to today's young readers while enhancing the Star Wars experience for core fans of the saga.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back So You Want to Be a Jedi?

So you want to be a Jedi? It seems coo. You can move things with you mind. Control people with your thoughts. Oh, and the lightsabers. Yeah, those are awesome. But it's not all mind control and weaponized flashlights. Being a Jedi is hard work. Also, there are bad guys. Lots of bad guys. Who want to kill you. Do you still want to be a Jedi? If so, this book is for you!

Rebeca Keren Nuñez

Soy fan de la saga y cómo me paso con los anteriores, siento que me completa un montón la historia de las películas, además la lectura fue súper ágil.

the idea of being luke skywalker or a student of force in general is actually fun, but this wasn’t the right book for that.

Lorien O'Brien

This book is not well written. The voice is straight up not well done, the point of view bounces between 2nd and 3rd person which is VERY confusing, it's all in present tense, which can be fine but it's not in this book.

But my biggest issue? He skips scenes. Almost every scene between Han and Leia isn't there, merely skipped, as if anyone needs to skip those scenes. It's incredibly annoying.

But the number thing I hate is that he changed almost every single line between Luke and Yoda. The lines that are the best lines of dialogue in all of Star Wars, save perhaps the animated series, but that banter is so well done BECAUSE of these lines! And to see hardly any of them at all presented in this novel is beyond frustating. I adore every line, every interaction with Luke and Yoda. It's hilarious and funny and deep at all the right times. It sets up Yoda as this wise, joking, fun, and powerful little creature who has been a Jedi for almost a millinium, who ensures the jedi don't die out due to Anakin or any other Skywalker, in Legends and Canon. Changing or straight up losing his lines are a big deal to me. This cannot be given even 3 stars, it's so bad.

Not a good book. Physically beautiful, but not well done at all. 2.5/5

Jane Krauss

DNF 

Wow, I can't believe I'm giving this only 1 star, but it was a HUGE disappointment. I hate the third-person perspective. I don't understand why that was the chosen format because the ‘from-a-certain-POV’ style in The Princess, the scoundrel, and the Farm Boy worked SO much better.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back So You Want to Be a Jedi?

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