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Review Summaries
"Corran Horn returns from a military mission and finds his wife missing and feels her dissapear in the force. He feels traumatized and lost and seeks to find her going first to Luke Skywalker's jedi academy and dissapointedly leaving he goes to his grandfather on his homeplanet of Correllia. There he finds the truth about his past and finds that he has been doing the wrong thing trying to be a jedi and that he should have gone to find Mirax as himself, deciding that he must join with the pirate group he believes has his wife he begins to solve the mystery and finds that he needs to balance his life and that he can be both Jedi, Pilot, and protector."
Jonathan Winn, Resident Michael A. Stackpole Scholar
"Corran Horn, the main character comes home one eavening to find his wife has gone missing. In his search for her, he learns to balance his security force investigative skills with his newly discovered Jedi Powers. He goes from one extreme to the other, trying to find a happy medium, and meets many other expanded universe characters along the way. Story takes place during the Jedi Accademy trilogy, and there are several parallels. Corran Finds in the end not only his wife, but that he is a better pilot and husband by combining his skills."
Janet, Resident Stackpole Scholar
"Corran Horn finds out in the beginning of the book that his wife is missing. He goes looking for her, but first goes to Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy."
Wedge Antilles, Resident Michael Stackpole Scholar
"After X-Wing pilot Corran Horn's wife is kidnapped, he decides to join Luke Skywalker and develope his skills to become a Jedi and find his wife. After his training, he infiltrates the kidnapper's group to set things right and rescue his wife.
All in all a very great story that is set highly around conflicting emotions about how Corran can find his wife without breaching his ethics, his vows, and without turning into a person that he doesn't want to be. Possibly the best and deepest Star Wars book around, and the first to be written exclusively in first person perspective. Remarkably weaved seamlessly with Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy even though Michael A. Stackpole had nothing to do with the writing of those books. Not one to miss."
Jacob Knudsen, Resident Michael A. Stackpole Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 22.5% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 15% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 42.5%
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Mental/magical powers focus
Yes
Inner Struggle
Yes
Plotlet:
- coping with mental/magical powers
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- fighter (air/space) pilot
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- mind reading
- mind control
- can read emotions
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- pirate
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Spaceship setting:
- a space station
- futuristic human freighter/transport
- really, really giant spaceship/station
- one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- unfriendly aliens
- neutral aliens
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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