YJK10: Jedi Bounty

 It's a shame both blogs are tied up in sloggy series right now. But I'm so close to the end of both that I'm trying to push through.

I guess it's been a while since I did a summary, and I think I need one to make my complaints for this book make sense. The current story arc revolves around "The Diversity Alliance" an alien supremacist group who have convinced Lowbacca's friend to join them. Zekk has decided to become a bounty hunter, rather than joining the Academy. His first big bounty is Raynar's dad, who is currently on the run, trying to hide the location of an Imperial bioweapons storehouse. The twins, Tenel Ka, and (sometimes) Lowie are also looking for him, so their paths occasionally intersect. 

Raaba (who had been vaguely alluded to the early books, and is now promoted to a full character) convinced Lowie to come check things out with her new cult/terrorist cell, so he zips of the Ryloth with her. The Twins and co. go to get him back. 

I've written several times about how these books just don't make sense, that AM don't really seem to be able to keep track of what's going on within a scene, let alone chapter to chapter. There's a lot of examples of this here, but I think the best is when the twins finally find Lowie.

They sneak in (with Raynar, MTD, and Tenel Ka) and find him in a computer lab. Despite being in the middle of the fortress of the anti-human-KKK they don't bother with disguises or anything, don't send MTD to scout, only sort of use the Force to look for guards, and Jaina winds up running ahead. (I'll be honest, Jaina/Lowie has felt like the more supported pairing than Jaina/Zekk for most of the series.) They get captured, and I'm willing to buy that three relatively novice Jedi trainees (plus Raynar, who just sort of exists at this point) can't fight off the security force. But they were able to literally push over a space ship a book or two ago, is it really too much for Jaina to Force tap Lowie on the shoulder or something?

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