Kenobi: Star Wars Legends

As part of the recent storytelling, authors are getting back to what makes Star Wars an enjoyable experience, namely character-driven stories. John Jackson Miller does a great job with Old Ben's backstory, and the plot makes it hard to put the book down.

A nice read with some action and hilarious moments of Ben using the force unbeknownst to those around him. Ben suffers in the aftermath of his fight with Anakin Skywalker as he takes his place on Tattooine to look after Luke Skywalker while in hiding. He gets involved with some locals and has a small love interest while reflecting on his life and meditating to his old mentor. A recommended book to read.

It took a while to establish story, but it became the typical good Star Wars book with plenty of twists and surprises. It left a few mini-stories and connections to movie characters unfinished. Overall, I'd recommend the book.

I was pleasantly surprised this novel was as good as it was. For the longest time i had always wondered what Ben had been doing on Tatooine and this novel certainly explained alot and it just was simply amazing.

It took a while to establish story, but it became the typical good Star Wars book with plenty of twists and surprises. It left a few mini-stories and connections to movie characters unfinished. Overall, I'd recommend the book.

I was pleasantly surprised this novel was as good as it was. For the longest time i had always wondered what Ben had been doing on Tatooine and this novel certainly explained alot and it just was simply amazing.

Read like a western. The characters were well developed. I really enjoyed the book. It could have had a little more action for my taste. However, it worked. I will definitely be looking for more work from this John Jackson Miller

Great story how a great tragedy can effect someone, but that person still must go on. very character driven and a nice change from the normal epic universe changing we normally see, and love, in Star Wars stories.

I highly recommend this for any, not just Star Wars fans. But it's a must read for Jedi fans.

I appreciated the author's touchstones on Obi-Wan's past, his mistakes, and his lessons learned. And the original characters had some appeal and adequate depth. Obi-Wan's emotional state is palpable helping you to reflect on the past several years and the contrast between his life during the war and now in the desert.

But honestly, I thought Obi-Wan would be more the central character of the story. Instead Annileen was. And through her and A'Yark, most of the themes were played out. The strength of family and hope. The advantage of thinking about others' feelings and needs. How the future is unwritten.

Hopefully, Obi-Wan learned from those lessons instead of the lessons of Orrin's greed and selfishness. Of course, Obi-Wan isn't going to be surprised by greed or even follow that example, but his shattered faith in what he considered to be absolute goodness (his best friend and companion for 15 years) could easily translate into bitterness and resentment toward other humans.

Obviously, Anakin was more like Jabe than Orrin. He was a confused young man who had good influences and bad influences on him. But Annileen did what Obi-Wan never did for Anakin. She provided an emotional safety net where he could admit his mistakes without recriminations. And she loved him unconditionally. That alone should have been one of the more painful and lasting lessons for Obi-Wan. The Jedi would be the first to proclaim that they were not omniscient, deferring to the Will of the Force, but their actions spoke louder than their words in their refusal to let their members form emotional bonds that would sustain them.

I understand that keeping Obi-Wan somewhat to the periphery of the story in Kenobi keeps his mystique and his hermit status intact, if not forcibly 'in your face'. But his embrace of his relationship with the Sand Warrior shows that perhaps he just meshes better with people who are leaders and in survival situations than people who are just living ordinary lives as shopkeepers and farmers.

I wonder if he regretted saving Orrin from his punishment by Jabba's people when that might have given the man time to think about the more dire consequences of his actions.

If a sequel is written, I hope it is more from Obi-Wan's point of view. He's my hero no matter the story.

Kenobi was similar to reading Louis L'Amour at his best. The characters ride, walk and live in the familiar Tatooine setting, and as for 'Ben,' he had such trouble hiding his Jedihood that it must have taxed even his ingenuity. His meditations towards Qui-Gon ached with his guilt while the mention of Satine and her connection with the name 'Ben' gave him a bit of a past that even a reader unfamiliar with The Clone Wars animated series could relate to. Annileen's motivations stayed securely in character, even her desperation for a lover somewhere on her level. Outside of Orrin, who was there? As she herself mentioned, Mullen was not husband material. As for Orrin, he worked hard to survive, succeeded, yet succumbed to poweritis, a common story. Orrin's fate, as grisly as it was, turned him back into an honest farmer. I did wonder if Veeka were added to the tribe as a captive, but no. Miller wrote another strong female character in the multi-planet story Knight Errant's Kerra Holt and he has shown a fine sense of fun and 'Star-Warsiness.' I like his writing and hope he works more in Star Wars. Miller also wrote the 'oooh, no sex, please, we're (British) Jedi!' into Errant, and also in Kenobi. As in Luceno's Dark Lord, the sense of immediacy to the Purge hangs over the novel, with the Empire's changes to the galaxy not yet disseminated to outlying areas. The small-town/rural atmosphere really hung together for me, where everyone knows the business of everyone else, no matter how one tries to disguise or simply live quietly: people are born to gossip. All in all, a happy read.

Wonderfully written. Vastly superior to any of the other books written about this period in Ben's life. The other characters the author has created are well done, believable people you either care about or hate.

The story starts out really, really slow and takes a bit before it gets interesting. It does help to paint a better picture of Obi-Wan after the Purge, I am glad I read the story but it isn't what I would call necessary. I would recommend it if you have nothing else in your queue.

Fantastic read. The purchase of the Star Wars franchise by Disney and the 2015 movie will be very interesting to watch how it will impact the EU. But the story line of the 20 years of Luke and Leia's childhood and teen years is a yet untapped area to explore. Great first book ... Hope there are more to come.

Hot for Kenobi, anyone? Well...you are wasting you time. He's a JEDI, remember? (Sigh). Mr. Miller writes one heck of a tale, and when it is about Ben Kenobi, he writes a winner. Kenobi tries to keep a low profile on Tatooine while keeping an eye on the baby boy given to Owen and Beru Lars. His efforts at assuming a hermit's life are constantly scuttled when the conflict between the indigenous desert people and the moisture farmers becomes violent enough to affect even him. Throw in a widow with two teenagers and a yen for Ben, a local businessman who wants Ben gone, and the secret of the true situation between the farmers and sand people, and you have a fast moving story, with lots of heart and detail. LOVE BEN KENOBI? This is the book to read!

If you like action-packed stories about finance and mysteries, you still won't like this book. Seriously, it turns out that Obi Wan's next adventure after the fall of the Republic is to foil the dastardly designs of an evil water farmer whose weapons of choice are Halloween costumes and a disdain for ledger accounting. It's a lot like Scoobie-Doo, actually, right down to the grand unmasking of the villains, except that Obi Wan's space-pony sidekick never says "ruh-roh" or salivates over a sandwich.

Additionally, the writing is clunky and expositional, as if John Jackson Miller doesn't trust readers to understand the characters' dialogue or motives without having these details spelled out in obvious detail in the text. Miller seems uncomfortable writing prose, and I wonder if the over-writing in this book is due to a preference for storytelling that uses accompanying illustrations.

This is a snoozer. Skip it.

Proof that great stories can be written in a small setting. The galaxy wasn't in danger of being blown up by yet another super weapon, there wasn't a generic villain of the week... Just a tight, well-written story that I thoroughly enjoyed.

A new story about Obi Wan Kenobi, that takes place between Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. While hiding Luke from Darth Vader and the Empire, Kenobi is drawn in to a local conflict. A conflict between Tuskin Raiders and Settlers new to the planet of Tatoonie. Kenobi must settle this without revealing his past. A book that reads like a Classic Western novel.

I have read nearly every Star Wars book ever published. I know the good qualities, and I know that they have plenty of flaws. But all in all, every Star Wars book reads like a Star Wars book - even the best ones. KENOBI reads like a top work of fiction from the NYT Bestseller list that only happens to borrow Star Wars characters and locations to create the story. Perfect for any fan of Star Wars or well-written literature.

Weeks after the fall of the republic obi- wan takes infant Luke to the Lars homestead to oversee and protect the youth from the emperor, also meeting a family, Tusken raiders, was well written and a nice story.