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Children Of the Jedi
Barbara Hambly
Children Of the Jedi
Cover Artist: Drew Struzan
Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are on Ithor when an old acquaintance of Han's manages to find them and warn them of a danger at Plett's Well. Han and Leia discover it's a possibility that Plett's Well is located at the settlement of Plawal on Belsavis and so travel there to find out what's going on. They find out that Plawal was indeed Plett's Well, and that a group of Jedi children were once hidden there after the Clone Wars. Luke takes a couple of his trainees with him as he investigates a premonition he received from the Force, and they end up trapped on the ancient battlemoon Eye Of Palpatine. While trying to avoid the Tusken Raiders and Gamorrean stormtroopers, Luke learns that the Eye was once tasked with traveling to Belsavis and destroying the Jedi hiding there but was thwarted by a brave Jedi woman named Callista, whose spirit still resides in the computer. Somehow, the battlemoon has been reactivated, and it will complete its mission unless Luke and Callista can stop it. Back on Belsavis, Leia meets Roganda Ismaren, who was once one of Emperor Palpatine's Hands as well as being one of his concubines. After Leia is captured by her, she reveals that she was one of the Jedi children at Plett's Well, and that her son activated the Eye Of Palpatine using the force and an implant in his head. Back on the Eye Luke has rescued his student Cray from the Gamorreans, but as he is about to go stop the battlemoon, Cray incapacitates him so that he will survive as she and Callista destroy the Eye. After doing all she can, Cray decides that she want's to join her significant other in death and allows Callista to take over her body so that she and Luke can be happy together. All goes well other than a small side effect; Callista can no longer touch the Force. With another crisis averted, Luke allows himself to begin to recover while he and Callista embark on a mission to help her recover her connection to the Force.

While fairly well written, the so-called Callista trilogy (consisting of Children Of the Jedi, Darksaber and Planet Of Twilight) has never been my favorite set of Star Wars books. I never really liked how Luke seemed to be less of a Jedi whenever he was mooning afer Callista, and that happens a lot in these books. Overall, this wasn't too bad. I liked how Luke was depicted as being powerful in the Force yet still human. As his body becomes more and more damaged, his ability to exercise the Force becomes weaker, yet he refuses to give up. Overall, not a bad book, but certainly not the best either.