The Jedi Academy Trilogy was written by Kevin J Anderson and published in 1994. It is set 11 years ABY and introduces us to another of the EU's most significant characters, Kyp Durron. We also meet Admiral Daala and Qui Xux for the first time.

The trilogy is being discussed in the BC&T forums here and more information about the books and their blurbs is available here.

My thoughts on this trilogy were posted here:

OK. Just finished the third book in the JAT. When I first came to this forum I was surprised at just how strong the opposition to KJA was as I hadn't really minded this series when I first read them.

As I was reading the first two books I still didn't fully understand the attitude ... sure there's the extraordinary abundance of superweapons, and an Imperial Admiral who is either a disappointing product of the system or poorly written, but the story was still quite interesting, even gripping at times.

The little side-plots with the twins, CP3O and Chewie were fun, and the beginning of the Jedi Academy was of interest ... although why there should be 6 candidates who were completely anonymous has always been a bit beyond me.

But then I got into Champions of the Force and my attitude changed. The way the students "saved" Luke was downright corny, as was the unbelieveable overuse of cliches from the movie - the old "I've got a bad feeling about this" and "Don't quote the odds" are ok once per book, but in CotF I reckon Han said each at least three times!

The whole inside the Maw/outside the Maw/back in again became rather tiresome and rather than such a high level of action being gripping it actually became quite boring.

Most disappointing though was the low key approach to Leia becoming Chief of State. Not much of an indication of her reaction to the appointment let alone any hint of any family reaction to this enormous event.

A rather disappointing finale to what should have been a good trilogy.


Of course, one of the anonymous candidates, able to be inserted into continuity because of what I now acknowledge to be the sensible device of leaving future character options open, was Corran Horn - his take on the event being covered in I, Jedi as covered in my earlier blog.


Links to all of my reviews/overview blogs can be found in this blog.