Junior Jedi Knights 5: Vader's Fortress (1997) Rebecca Moesta

 Vader's Fortress

Anakin has some sweet dance moves

Anakin's Quest is kind of a transition book between the Richardson Trilogy and the final two books. It introduces Uldir, but Vader's Fortress and Kenobi's Blade almost read as two halves of one book. Tionne takes a much larger role in the final two books, and we're introduced to Orloc, a fake Force mage who will play a larger role in the next book.

Moesta writes some really odd descriptions throughout her books, including this one. "The air was comfortably damp and warm." Not a thing. No one has ever been comfortable, damp, and warm and the same time. The phrase "It was a dark and stormy day," is used, presumably unironically.

There's a weird bit where Luke has Ikrit open a door in the academy that he presumably could open with the Force.

There's a scene where they activate some laser traps where they seem to forget that Tionne has a lightsaber (or that most of the group has Force powers) for most of it. Tionne is supposed to be more of a Jedi archivist than a warrior, but she's aggressively incompetent here, falling into traps that even a novice Jedi should be able to avoid w/ Force reflexes, etc.

Anakin seems a lot further from the Dark Side here than he does in the Globe trilogy.