A tempting of character possibilities becomes impeded by the slow unfolding boring standard Western genre fare. Hopefully a follow up about the other 19 years that Kenobi spent on Tatooine will be more compelling. ( )

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. ( )

It's been a long time since I don't have a 5 stars book. It was a great story and loved to learn more from Tuskens and Tatooine farmers. ( )

This book was bad in so many ways. First, the plot was ludicrous, so full of holes. I know, it's Star Wars and SW is notorious for bad plots, having only 2 out of the 6 movies worth watching. Second, "Ben" Kenobi doesn't use a lightsaber until the last 30 pages. A Jedi novel? Despite trying to keep a no-profile on Tatooine he ends up in the middle of so much farce he might as well have used his lightsaber from the first pages (although he wasn't much in the first 100). Finally the writing is just awful, worse than a YA novel, totally dumbed down.

I might have given this three stars if I was 11 years old. ( )

A história começa morna mas vai crescendo e tem um final muito bacana. Atropelei outras leituras para ver se tinha algumas pistas sobre a história de Obi-wan Kenobi, tamanha a ansiedade pela série (ou minissérie) que a Disney está fazendo. Apesar de não fazer mais parte do cânone oficial, valeu a diversão. ( )