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Star Wars: Kenobi
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Star Wars: Kenobi
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Star Wars: Kenobi

Written by John Jackson Miller

Narrated by Jonathan Davis

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Republic has fallen.
Sith Lords rule the galaxy.
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything . . .
Everything but hope.
 
Tatooine-a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. A backwater planet on the edge of civilized space. And an unlikely place to find a Jedi Master in hiding, or an orphaned infant boy on whose tiny shoulders rests the future of a galaxy.
 
Known to locals only as "Ben," the bearded and robed offworlder is an enigmatic stranger who keeps to himself, shares nothing of his past, and goes to great pains to remain an outsider. But as tensions escalate between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to Tatooine.
 
Ben-Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, hero of the Clone Wars, traitor to the Empire, and protector of the galaxy's last hope-can no more turn his back on evil than he can reject his Jedi training. And when blood is unjustly spilled, innocent lives threatened, and a ruthless opponent unmasked, Ben has no choice but to call on the wisdom of the Jedi-and the formidable power of the Force-in his never-ending fight for justice.

Praise for Kenobi: Star Wars

"Buy this book right now. . . . [This novel] manages to explore the depths of Ben Kenobi but still maintains the aura of mystery around his character."-Tosche Station

"Addictive, engrossing . . . wildly entertaining . . . There are plenty of twists, turns, and surprises. . . . John Jackson Miller creates a story that reaches new heights."-Roqoo Depot

"Brilliant . . . This is Star Wars fiction at its absolute best."-Examiner

"Enthralling . . . almost impossible to put down."-Eucantina


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 27, 2013
ISBN9780804148221
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Star Wars: Kenobi
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John Jackson Miller

John Jackson Miller is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements, Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing, Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War,  the acclaimed Star Trek: Prey trilogy (Hell’s Heart, The Jackal’s Trick, The Hall of Heroes), and the novels Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: Knight Errant, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith—The Collected Stories; and fifteen Star Wars graphic novels, as well as the original work Overdraft: The Orion Offensive. He has also written the enovella Star Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies. A comics industry historian and analyst, he has written for franchises including Halo, Conan, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and The Simpsons. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, two children, and far too many comic books.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great story! Very entertaining! A good listen for all Star Wars lovers
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was great because it shows how difficult it could be for a Jedi and war hero to settle down. This story take place within Obi-WANs first week on Tatooine
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Hearing even a small portion of the in between time of Star Wars is a real treat.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not the typical Star Wars tale, but more of a detective novel of sorts. There is no “fate of the galaxy” at stake here. “Kenobi” is a small-town tale in which we find Ben trying to settle into a new life of seclusion, but he stumbles across a local scheme which threatens a new friend whom he feels compelled to protect, all while trying to keep his true identity a secret. … “Kenobi” starts out a bit slow while it establishes its footing, but I became more interested as it progressed. … The narration was okay – not quite a “Marc Thompson” level performance. … Overall, I enjoyed it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Good story. Fills in some gaps of e time Kenobi spends on tattooine protecting Luke as a child and you get to lessen quite a bit about the sand people.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    another great book with fun and deep characters to go along with everyone’s favorite Jedi
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Way back in the 1980s, I remember people saying Star Wars was basically a space western. Well, this book is The Star Wars Space Western!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Miller does here what the best Star Wars tie-in novels featuring a major character do: he introduces and vividly describes new characters for the reader to care about who for the most part take center stage in the proceedings. In comparison to the disastrous Disney+ show, this story is restrained: nearly the entirety of the story takes place on Tatooine, the stakes are low, and the action set pieces are few and far between. Nerdy references to other branches of the Star Wars franchise (Satine Kryze, A'Sharad Hett) are similarly brief and fleeting.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Generally a good imagination of what Obi-Wan's introduction to Tatooine might have been like.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    this is part of how Obi-Wan learns to live as Ben. a masterful blend of Ewan McGregor, Sir Alec Guinness, and James Arnold Taylor this book captures essential elements from all 3 actors interpretations of this iconic character and rolls them into a single cohesive brown robe.
    definitely raises the Star Wars Expanded Universe bar. if you are a fan of the Star Wars EU, Read this book. if you are not, give it a go anyways.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Dunno how I feel about this one. It takes place after Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan has brought infant Luke to live with his 'relatives' on Tatooine. He is tasked with watching over Luke, to protect him, as his is the Galaxy's only hope (even though Leia exists.)Obi-Wan takes on the moniker Ben and spends much of his time meditating and trying to commune with Qui-Gon (and failing), trying to stay out of sight of Owen Lars, Luke's Uncle/Guardian who hates him for who knows what reason, and trying to remian anonymous. No such luck.The problem I had with this is, it's called Kenobi and I expected it to be an Obi-Wan story, but he's more of a side character in his own story. Everything revolved around Analine and her family, friends and enemies (by association.) The story was fine as Star Wars adventures go, but the lack of focus on Obi-Wan was disappointing to me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Nice story to get some back story on Obi-won. But Tattooine is a boring planet. All the movies hammered that home so making a story out of moisture farmers as the central piece just isn't that interesting to be totally honest. Good writing and some nice insights into Obi-won's head after Revenge of the Sith tragedy. But overall just an ok story in the Star Wars universe. Was hoping for more Obi-won and less farmers.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Was looking thru my library's audio options and stumbled across this. Its the story of Obi Wan Kenobi and his early day's on Tatoonie on his self imposed exile to avoid the empire and look over young Luke Skywalker. The Tusken Sandpeople feature prominently in this decent story full of adventure and intrigue. A very well done production with lots of music and sound effects.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A western-flavoured, fairly entertaining book that looks at Obi-Wan Kenobi's first months on Tatooine post 'Revenge of the Sith', when he was starting to adapt to the huge changes in his life and in the galaxy at large, and craft his new persona as 'Ben'. These spaces in between canon are the only place I tend to gravitate to for SW EU fiction these days, and this was pretty satisfying. It had some clever nods to fans (e.g. explaining why Obi-Wan didn't change his surname), and managed to avoid the angst that too many Obi-Wan stories tend to end up with (although - heh - it was yet another Kenobi story with the main female character falling for him).
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I liked the idea of this book far more than I enjoyed the actual story. I felt it was a superficial event and I was left with no real sense of Ben's life on Tatooine for 20 years. I wanted to witness his struggle with hate and fear of what Anakin became, while dealing with uncertainty and waiting for the future to be revealed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fine departure from the recent years of mediocre Star Wars novels. With the focus on one world and jut a handful of characters this story was able to bring about the nostalgia for past characters, creatures, and locations we loved. From Tusken raiders to krayt dragons the story of one shop keeper and her family was simple enough and a great entertaining addition to the star wars eu.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Obi-Wan is by far the only character that made the prequel trilogy workable and bearable to me. He's a mysterious character but by far the most developed character in the series besides Anakin Skywalker. But although this book was self-titled as Kenobi and is an original novel without any relation to other canon in the book, I am terribly disappointed by how very little Ben Kenobi was in this book and completely dissatisfied by this book as a whole. Instead of Kenobi, it should be "The Lives of the Folks in Tatooine and the Mysterious Ben Kenobi".

    I don't really mind if its a space western. I mean, I do love Firefly. But I really hate it when the blurb completely lied to me. Its not the story of Obi Wan at all, its actually the narratives of several characters. Its the story of Annileen who manage a general store and western saloon who had some troubles and Orrin a quite hateful character and A'Yark, a Tusken. Ignore the whole part about it being an Obi-Wan story, it is an original book but its not mostly an Obi-Wan book even if its named Kenobi.

    I tried to be optimistic with the storyline but I have to face the fact that I couldn't care much about Annileen nor Orrin to make this book worthwhile that it does drags on when there's barely any clarity that by the time I actually say Ben and tried to be enthusiastic with it, the side characters continue to drive this book into oblivion. I mean I know that Ben must do something between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope but I can't help that western pulp run on cliched stereotypes mistaken as depth. I do like A'Yark but I don't think random light saber fight and laser guns would distract me from the shallow river this story run on. Plus, they even have a slight bit of romance added to the mix with Ben and Annie. I seriously don't think that's not intentional.

    There should be more to Tatooine and Ben's life in the desert planet than another filler storylines and characters with action heros and dialogues. It could have been more to it than another appropriation about natives and settlers. Come to think of it, it even have its own genocide as contributed by Anakin. Was this intended to be another unsubtle misappropriation of western imperialist and colonization history? So yeah, it could have been more to this book from the blurb alone and its not it with this book.

    The ARC is provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If we had only EU novels like this, maybe 1 or 2 a year, the expanded universe could be taken a lot more seriously. This novel is small in scope and in page count, but helps us to understand the role Obi-Wan has to play in his exile. Many fans will want to see one last big adventure for Obi-Wan, but this cannot happen (even though it does in young readers books), and the author understands this. There is a lot of restraint shown by the author, no major reveals are made (again because they were made in lessor works), yet the book pulls you in and makes you care not only about Obi-Wan but about the supporting characters as well. While Obi-Wan comes to terms with his final mission, which becomes a way of paying penance for his failures in training his former apprentice, he becomes unwillingly entangled in local events. This story creates a believable and interesting representation of what the character of Obi-Wan should be in this period between trilogies. What we see of Obi-Wan is mostly through the eyes of others, and it becomes clear how Obi-Wan Kenobi of the prequel trilogy becomes crazy old Ben from Episode IV. This is a must read for any Star Wars fan, especially those who haven't read any of the novels.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Seems as though almost nothing about this book is actually about kenobi ...some chapters in I looked at other reviews and it confirms that really it's just about some random unimportant uninteresting squabbles by the locals. waist of time and did not finish. book sucks as it is not as advertised. a more honest title would have been " interpersonal conflicts by totally unconnected characters in the Star Wars universe that will bore you with kanobie looking on". I hated it...lol.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Book Info: Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy/Space OperaReading Level: AdultRecommended for: Star Wars fans, those who enjoy space opera and are familiar with the background story lineBook Available: August 27, 2013 in hardcover, Kindle and audiobook formatsTrigger Warnings: violence, massacre of a group of raidersMy Thoughts: I have read a number of very good Star Wars novels over the years, such as the Rogue Squadron books, and the Jedi Academy. This was not among the best of them, but it was a fairly entertaining story. The main problem I had with this one is that the protagonist was too far into the darkness. I never felt like there was much hope of redemption, and I must prefer a more shades-of-grey situation to the dark vs. light that is fairly strong in this book.Nonetheless, I found the book both highly readable and very enjoyable. One sees a more mature Obi-Wan than how he was presented in the movies Episode I through III, but not quite the venerable oldster we see in Episode IV. I would love to read more of the details from his point of view through the entire stretch of time. I would love to have a better idea of how he came to the ideas that, “Sometimes it takes losing everything to find the right path,” and, “... wise people never make desperate decisions.” I'm quite certain Master Yoda planted those seeds, and they were amply watered with Anakin's blood, but there are hints of other stories under the blanket about which I would like to learn more.We also learn quite a lot about the Tusken Raiders (aka Sand People) and their thought processes and way of life in this book, which is really neat. I need to go to Wookiepedia and look up pictures of some of the aliens mentioned in this book so I can see them better in my head.Those who aren't fans of Star Wars, or who haven't at least seen the movies, will likely be a bit lost in this book, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. I certainly made me want to go back and re-read some of the other Star Wars books sitting around here. If you're a fan of Star Wars and would like to spend some time in Obi-Wan's head and/or learn more about the Tusken Raiders, then check this very cool book out.Disclosure: I received a paperback ARC from the Amazon Vine program in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.Synopsis: In this original novel set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi comes to the aid of the residents of Tatooine during his exile. But he struggles with his new mission when he realizes that protecting Luke Skywalker—the last hope of the galaxy—means setting aside his compassion and his Jedi warrior training, for the future of the galaxy lies not with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but with a mystical desert recluse known only by the name of Crazy Old Ben.