The Defenders of the Dead


Book Data
Type	Young Reader
Series	Jedi Apprentice Series
Era	Rise of the Empire
	44 BBY
Publishing Data
Author(s)	Jude Watson
Paperback	19-Feb-00

Synopsis

The planet Melida/Daan is in the middle of a civil war where the two factions, the Melida and the Daan, are slowing killing each other. A female Jedi named Tahl was sent to mediate, but she was taken hostage. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are sent to retrieve her.

Lord Depravus Says

Weakest so far - 09-Feb-08

I have to say that I thought this book was by far the weakest yet. The concept was just totally unbelieveable. I mean a bunch of children overthrowing two factions of adults and taking control of a planet? That's about as believeable as a bunch of Ewoks overthrowing the Empire... oh wait...

Whilst I like reading about a young Obi-Wan and seeing that he perhaps wasn't always the perfect Jedi we saw him to be in the films, I think that the concept of him leaving the order was a bit too far.

The one thing I really did like in this book was the confrontation between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. That was very well handled and brilliantly written.