![]() ![]() With this book, it might be more enjoyable to me than A New Hope. ![]() ![]() Right after I finished reading this, I began reading the adaptation from the Star Wars Trilogy collection, and I find myself thinking of details from this book while I read the James Kahn adaptation. I definitely liked Return, but I would never say it was my favorite of the Original Trilogy, ranking higher than only Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. I sincerely mean it: because I read this book, I enjoy Return of the Jedi more fully. I’ll say it right away: Beware the Power of the Dark Side is one of the few adaptations that gave me more appreciation for the source material. ![]() Tom Angelberger’s Beware the Power of the Dark Side! is a young adult/YA adaptation of the script for The Return of the Jedi. Adam Gidwitz’s So You Want to be a Jedi? Is a second-person retelling of The Empire Strikes Back, putting you into the boots of Luke Skywalker as he trains to be a Jedi. Alexandria Bracken’s The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farmboy reimagined A New Hope through the eyes of Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker, where each character’s unique viewpoint covered a third of the movie each. Rather than acting as new novelizations of the film, these adaptations were loose translations of the Original Trilogy, recast in a new light for kids (and adults) to get a new angle on the story in a new age. With the media onslaught for the release of The Force Awakens, Disney formed a new line of retellings of the Original Trilogy movies aimed at kids. ![]()
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