The Weapon of a Jedi

Luke's story starts a little differently than Leia and Han's. He's the only person who isn't actually "telling" his story for reasons that are obvious if you've watched or read Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Instead Luke's story is told by C-3PO. Luke's story takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Luke is trying to reconcile his roles as a pilot and as a Jedi. Following the death of Ben Kenobi, he's left floundering with no master, but the Force is on his side gently pushing him in the direction that he needs to take to better himself as a Jedi.

Out of these three books, this one is probably the one that is more in line with what I would expect of a book for younger teens and kids. It has a very straightforward story with a basic good versus evil concept. While Han and Leia's stories, especially Leia's, dealt more heavily with morality and the sometimes ambiguous nature of it throughout their books, Luke's story only has one moment where that comes into play and it's more of a personal choice than something that involves thinking about something bigger than himself like Han and Leia's dilemmas.

You'd think that a story centered around Luke learning to harness the Force would have a bit more action, but nothing truly happens until the book is nearing the end. Most of the book is spent with Luke lamenting about the Force. Still, I listened to these books with my children in mind (because they'll be listening to them soon), and it's really hard to go wrong with showing the "hero" learning to control his powers.

Jonathan Davis is one of my favorite narrators, but I have a bit of a mixed feeling here. He certainly didn't do a terrible job. His narration was beautiful as always. I was just a little underwhelmed with some of the character voices that didn't seem to show much nuance from one another, even the female voice. Other than that, he did quite well.