Book Review: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure

 

This is one of the Star Wars young-reader novels written by Jason Fry and published in 2015 before The Force Awakens was released.  The story is set in between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. While on a mission for the Rebellion, Luke ends up on a planet called Devaron, at the remains of a Jedi temple. Similar to the other young reader novels put out at the time, it has a prologue and epilogue, this time with C3P0 telling the story of Luke's adventure on the planet to a resistance pilot (hence the tie-in to The Force Awakens hinted at on the back cover) in the time shortly before the events of the new movie. 

The hardcover version of the book is just 184 pages, and it reads very quickly. It can easily be read from cover to cover in a couple of hours. The book's main theme is Luke trying to figure out how he is going to become a Jedi without anyone to train him since Obi-Wan died. I will not say more than that so as to not spoil the book for anyone who has not read it, but it is definitely written well enough for adults to enjoy. While many of us are still waiting for more novels that lay out Luke's post-Return of the Jedi stories, this is still an enjoyable short story.