sable_m's review against another edition
3.0
3
Average book, a few contradictions to other renditions of the events, specifically in character's internal dialog (especially the youth Phantim Menace retelling which has the same target audience)
It follows Anakin's remembrance of the events of the Phantom Menace after they've happened, as a way to remember everything that's happened to him, with some remeberance of events before the movie that play relevance to his knowledge of certain things going on around him.
It's written as his feelings and emotions as they happened instead of a more 'present tense' reflection on the events and reflecting on how he'd felt then (Basically it was all present tense type writing "I need to do this" instead of "I had to/I did do this"). Events were heavily skimmed in favor for shorter set up to what the scene was in the movie before shifting back to anakin's internal thoughts.
Very quick read. Only took a few of hours with multiple pauses and breaks.
Average book, a few contradictions to other renditions of the events, specifically in character's internal dialog (especially the youth Phantim Menace retelling which has the same target audience)
It follows Anakin's remembrance of the events of the Phantom Menace after they've happened, as a way to remember everything that's happened to him, with some remeberance of events before the movie that play relevance to his knowledge of certain things going on around him.
It's written as his feelings and emotions as they happened instead of a more 'present tense' reflection on the events and reflecting on how he'd felt then (Basically it was all present tense type writing "I need to do this" instead of "I had to/I did do this"). Events were heavily skimmed in favor for shorter set up to what the scene was in the movie before shifting back to anakin's internal thoughts.
Very quick read. Only took a few of hours with multiple pauses and breaks.
nerdypotsie's review against another edition
5.0
I actually really enjoyed this one! It was somewhat of a novelization of the first movie, but it was all from Anakin’s perspective and it was really cute.
quigonchuy's review against another edition
2.0
It's alright, not much added to the story really. Mostly an Anakin focused retelling of EP I.
dinosaurhorrorshow's review
2.0
Since all the star wars journal books were written by different authors some are more well written than others. This one in my opinion is not as well written as the darth maul one or the older ones.
alexi_lupin's review
2.0
Pretty blandly written. It seems to be trying to be a diary yet it alludes to future events or at least seems to have been written with future knowledge. It's as though Anakin tried to retrospectively write a diary.
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