What an interesting start to what will become one of my favourite pairings of Jedi to Padawan.
This has a lot of great parts including the fact that it shows a relationship which is very rocky between Qui Gon Jinn and the Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi. You saw a bit of it with The Phantom Menace which showed it wasn’t perfect but there was still the great relationship which seems to not really be part of the beginning of the book.
Obi-wan is as touchy as many youth and you can see with his impatience. Also learning that he was also found later as well and not as a baby shows why he was drawn towards Anakin at a much later time.
I like the fact that he wants action but has no clue what could happen when he gets it.
Claudia Gray is a master of Star Wars writing and shows a grasp of being able to write another person’s characters and still make them her own while also keeping the true to what the originator created.
The old friend of Qui Gon seemed like such a scammer even though he is Jedi Knight. I found it very strange that he wasn’t expelled from the order.
Seeing the past parts with Dooku was also great as you see what he was like and how he interacted with his Padawan. I also see a lot of Dooku in Qui Gon and then in Obi-wan
I think that seeing Qui Gon really and truly for the first time as The Phantom Menace didn’t give a lot of depth to him was amazing. Seeing what made him tick and how and why he was the way he was makes his just that much of a better character.
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