A review by verkisto
The Deadly Hunter by Jude Watson
3.0
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are between adventures, and find themselves visiting an old friend of Qui-Gon's, Didi, who owns a diner. Once there, they agree to do a small favor for him, which winds up being more than just a favor. Before long, both of them are caught up in a murder involving Didi and his daughter, along with a senator and her aide.
The Deadly Hunter is at its core a murder mystery, complete with red herrings and multiple suspects (though it does avoid the gather-everyone-into-one-room conclusion I almost expected it to have). Watson presents us with an assassin who is one of the few opponents who can stand up and survive a battle with Jedi, though we don't learn much about her in this book. The book ends on a cliffhanger, but I expect the next book in the series will tell us more about her.
This book is a bit shorter than the others in the series, so we don't get a lot of development into any of the new characters, much less the assassin. It appears to be the start of the next story arc for the series, though, so I expect that we'll see more of the characters in later books, and see more of their development there. I hope so, at least; Didi and his daughter are interesting characters, though I kept seeing Dexter Jettster in my mind whenever Didi returned to the story.
I'm a bit out of practice with the series, since I got distracted by the Myth Adventure books for the last month, but I was able to pick it up here without too much trouble. This book marks the halfway point of the series, and it's off to a good start. My expectations are high, but if Watson carries this half of the story as well as she did the first, she won't disappoint.
The Deadly Hunter is at its core a murder mystery, complete with red herrings and multiple suspects (though it does avoid the gather-everyone-into-one-room conclusion I almost expected it to have). Watson presents us with an assassin who is one of the few opponents who can stand up and survive a battle with Jedi, though we don't learn much about her in this book. The book ends on a cliffhanger, but I expect the next book in the series will tell us more about her.
This book is a bit shorter than the others in the series, so we don't get a lot of development into any of the new characters, much less the assassin. It appears to be the start of the next story arc for the series, though, so I expect that we'll see more of the characters in later books, and see more of their development there. I hope so, at least; Didi and his daughter are interesting characters, though I kept seeing Dexter Jettster in my mind whenever Didi returned to the story.
I'm a bit out of practice with the series, since I got distracted by the Myth Adventure books for the last month, but I was able to pick it up here without too much trouble. This book marks the halfway point of the series, and it's off to a good start. My expectations are high, but if Watson carries this half of the story as well as she did the first, she won't disappoint.