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morgcxn's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
2.5
This was mostly fine. I just don't feel like much happened, and things got jumbled and confusing really quickly. I'm not really sure what everyone was after, and the ending didn't really feel like it wrapped anything up.
bradland's review against another edition
I lasted about 2 chapters (somewhere around Anakin's race through Coruscant's underbelly) then couldn't be bothered reading anymore.
thebookslayer's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Rogue Planet is a one off StarWars EU book by Greg Bear and it shows. The story is s bit jumbled and has no real direction. As you might think this is a story about Anakin and Obi-wans first adventure together as master and apprentice much like the Jedi Apprentice series. But it is nothing like that and the play between these well known characters falls flat. Also once the story's over there no real pay off from where the plot had started.
fandom4ever's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Rogue Planet takes place three years after Episode I and right before the Jedi Quest series. I really liked these first looks at Anakin’s apprenticeship and how both Obi-Wan and Anakin care about each other but are uncertain if they are the right pairing. With it being so soon after Qui-Gon’s death, we also got a few moments of Obi-Wan still processing that loss and what it meant for him and his relationship to the Force. I also really liked learning a bit more of Raith Sienar, here only a designer and engineer and not yet in charge of his own company. Though I do wish we had gotten to see a bit more depth from his side of things and more of his past relationship with Tarkin.
Most of this book is focused on the hidden planet Zonama Sekot and their mysterious living ships. It was an interesting idea but despite lots of details I couldn’t really figure out how these ships functioned. I also don’t know why Obi-Wan and Anakin were sent to buy and design one of these ships. What were they going to do with it? Ultimately I was left not feeling too invested in this story.
The about the author says that Greg Bear was called the “best working writer of hard science fiction”. Apparently, hard science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction writing that emphasizes scientific accuracy and precise technical detail as part of its world-building. I wondered if having an author who was more known for writing a precise science hindered the storyline. There was just so much going into the living planet of Zonama Sekot but I never felt that I got to really understand it. And indeed, the ending just left me utterly confused because it felt like it came out of nowhere. Most of the action and ‘explanation’ came too close to the end and didn’t go deep enough for me to understand the people and why they had come to the planet. The idea of the Potentium was fascinating but because the characters were more concerned with the making of a ship, we just had hurried talks about it.
I know this planet and one of the characters factors more into the later New Jedi Order series, and this book gives you tidbits and hints of what’s to come in the galaxy. But overall, I don’t think Rogue Planet is a book you need to rush out and read. I don’t regret having read it; I just wish I could have gotten more from it.
ofclumsywords's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
conanmm's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
coley_reads's review against another edition
2.75
"It involves a kind of spacecraft rare and little seen, very expensive, of unknown manufacturer, supposedly a toy for the wealthy. It may ultimately lead to a lost planet covered by a peculiar kind of forest, very mysterious. And it may soon involve the Jedi."
"He felt as if he could see all his life laid out before him, filled with accomplishment and heroism - selfless heroism, of course, befitted a jedi. Somewhere in that life would be a woman, though jedi did not often marry. He imagined the woman to be like Queen Amidala of Naboo, a powerful personality in her own right, lovely and dignified, yet sad and shouldered with great burdens - which Anakin would help lift. He had not spoken with Amidala in years, nor of course with his mother, Shmi, but in his present frame of disciplined consciousness, their memory acted on him like a distant and ineffable music."
Obi Wan speaking about Anakin "The boy loses everything he loves."
"He felt as if he could see all his life laid out before him, filled with accomplishment and heroism - selfless heroism, of course, befitted a jedi. Somewhere in that life would be a woman, though jedi did not often marry. He imagined the woman to be like Queen Amidala of Naboo, a powerful personality in her own right, lovely and dignified, yet sad and shouldered with great burdens - which Anakin would help lift. He had not spoken with Amidala in years, nor of course with his mother, Shmi, but in his present frame of disciplined consciousness, their memory acted on him like a distant and ineffable music."
Obi Wan speaking about Anakin "The boy loses everything he loves."
mstrox's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
akannabeth14's review against another edition
3.0
The book isn’t bad, but it doesn’t seem to fit well into the Star Wars universe. The author had Obi-Wan written VERY well but his take on Anakin was a little different and so was his writing for Tarkin. Overall this was mostly just meh.