Books Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1) Download Online Free

Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Kevin J. Anderson

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 3673 Users | 102 Reviews

Point Epithetical Books Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Title	:	Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)
Author	:	Kevin J. Anderson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 15th 1999 by Berkley (first published June 1995)
Categories	:	Media Tie In. Star Wars. Science Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction

Chronicle In Favor Of Books Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Once upon a time, in an alternative universe, Han Solo and Princess Leia had three children, unlike the new “official” universe timeline, in which they had only one son, Ben Solo, who would grow up to be Kylo Ren and (spoiler alert!) kill his own father. In this new “official” universe, the Empire has transmogrified into something called the First Order. The Rebel Alliance eventually became the New Republic, but there is also a group called the Resistence. (This part gets confusing.) Leia is now a general instead of a princess, C3PO has a red arm, and R2D2 is in sleep mode. Oh, and Luke Skywalker has been missing for years. (See "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens")

In the alternative universe (now called the “old canon”, or “legends”), a lot of other stuff happened. (More spoilers!) Luke Skywalker set up a Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, an extragalactic warrior race called the Yuuzhan Vong spread across the galaxy like a vicious plague, Chewbacca was killed, Han became an alcoholic, Luke married an Imperial assassin, Mara Jade (originally sent to kill him, she instead fell in love with him because, well, Luke...), and they had a son named Ben Skywalker. There was also a rogue planet that was alive, and there were these weird things called dovin basals. (I still don’t know what they hell they are.)

Back in the ‘90s, following the success of Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy, numerous authors joined in on what is now called the Star Wars Expanded Universe (SWEU). The film series officially ended with “Return of the Jedi”, and it would be another decade before George Lucas would make his prequel trilogy.

In that long “meantime”, hundreds of novels, comic books, and short stories were published within the official SWEU, not including the unofficial fan fiction in countless fanzines.

In 1995, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta started a young adult book series featuring the young children of Han and Leia. Twins Jacen and Jaina Solo were training to be Jedi Knights by their Uncle Luke on Yavin 4, along with children from all over the galaxy who had promising Force abilities. These children were recruited by Luke to hone their abilities in a school-like setting where they faced strange and interesting tests and adventures.

Strangely enough, the Young Jedi Knights series predates J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series by three years. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (in the UK, it was “the Philosopher’s Stone”) was published in the U.S. in 1998.

While Harry Potter took the children’s and young adult book market by storm, Young Jedi Knights probably got subsumed by the unexpected fascination with young witches and wizards. Nevertheless, what originally started as a six-book series by Anderson/Moesta, extended its run to fourteen books.

“Heirs of the Force”, book one, introduces us to several new characters who would become important in later book series: Lowbacca is Chewbacca’s nephew. He is one of the few Wookies to have strong Force abilities. Tenel Ka is from Dathomir, the planet of the defeated Nightsisters, “witches” who were powerful in the Dark Side of the Force. She is the product of one of these reformed nightsisters and Prince Isolder from the Hapes Consortium. (See Dave Wolverton’s “The Courtship of Princess Leia”)

Jacen and Jaina had appeared in various stages of infancy and childhood in previous books, but Young Jedi Knights was the first real attempt to give them a series of their own. Absent from the first book (due to the fact that he was busy in his own series of children’s books, Junior Jedi Knights), Anakin Solo was the baby brother of the twins.

The plot of “Heirs of the Force” involves the twins and Lowbacca discovering wreckage of a TIE-fighter in the forest, most likely left over from the Battle of Yavin twenty years before (See “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope”). Jaina, who is an adept mechanic, decides to rebuild it. Unfortunately, the children also discover that the Imperial pilot, named Qorl, is also alive and has been living in the forest for the past 20 years, waiting for an Imperial rescue. He captures the children and forces them to continue to work on repairing the TIE-fighter.

The children learn a valuable lesson about when and where to utilize violence. Rather than attack Qorl (who seems slightly unhinged and unwilling to accept that his beloved Emperor is dead), the three children attempt to reason with him using compassion. It works to an extent: Qorl still escapes the planet, but he lets them live. Unbeknownst to the children, their attempt at a diplomatic and peaceful solution has planted seeds of doubt within Qorl’s mind.

“Heirs of the Force” is a quick, entertaining read. (I literally finished it during a long four-hour car ride. Don’t worry: I wasn’t driving.) It harkens back to a period in the SWEU when things weren’t as dark. It also harkens back to a pre- “new/official canon” world in which the Solos had three children instead of one, and while I think the offical canon is, for the most part, decent, I am still, at heart, partial to the old canon.

Particularize Books In Pursuance Of Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Original Title:	Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights - Heirs of the Force
ISBN:	0425169499 (ISBN13: 9780425169490)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1, Star Wars Legends

Rating Epithetical Books Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Ratings: 3.62 From 3673 Users | 102 Reviews

Critique Epithetical Books Heirs of the Force (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights #1)

Well, Heirs of the Force essentially serves as an introduction to the 14 books long Young Jedi Knights series, which describes the studies of the Solo twins and their friends Lowbacca (a nephew of Chewbacca) and Tenel Ka (a young girl from Dathomir, brought up in the ways of the Singing Mountain Clan) at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. As always with the first book in a series Heirs of the Force has the difficult job of establishing the setting and the characters of the upcoming stories, which

Rereading this book after the cinematic Disney sequels makes me appreciate it more. Han Solo is a loving father in the Expanded Universe, which is much better than the bitter old pirate we see in TFA.This entire series of books is a great example of how to weave older characters into a story about new characters. Han, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca, Lando and more show up in supporting roles and don't suffer from character assassination.

I read this whole series several times when I was a kid. These were a lot of fun and easy to read. They really helped me along my way to enjoy reading and becoming obessed with Star Wars. This book was really one of the best. We meet alot of charaters that became close frinds to the reader. I feel Anderson was able to identify what i young adult would be lookig for in characters and hit it bullseye. Kudos for a great series.

This book is ridiculous and juvenile and talks about brandy colored eyes a little too much and I don't even care I love it I'm gonna read the entire series.



Juvenile, but, hey, that's what it is.

This series was the first Star Wars series I ever read. Now, years later I apparently can still go back, reread them ad fall in love with the Star Wars universe all over again. I love the characters in this! Especially the twins, Jaina and Jacen. The introduction to their early training and being able to learn more about Yavin 4 (The Former Rebel base in A New Hope) is most interesting. I love the jungle moon. And oddly enough I like the survivor these knights in training come across. I wanted