Transmedia Storytelling

MY RATING:

Way of the Apprentice is the first official novel in the Jedi Quest series. It has a couple of good aspects, but for the most part it is not nearly as strong of a novel as some of the others that Jude Watson has developed in the past, and definitely not the best in Star Wars storytelling.

While Jude Watson is good at bringing in likeable side characters, he literally outdoes himself in this book. There are so many characters that it is nearly impossible (especially for a younger reader) to keep them all straight. It only causes confusion and distracts from the story. It would have been better to cut the character count in half and focus more on those characters. As it stands, there is little to no good character development, except perhaps with the relationship between Anakin and Ferus.