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Star Wars: Crisis at Crystal Reef

Young Jedi Knights #14

by Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta

Published 1998215 pagesISBN 978-0-4251-6519-5

Anja Gallandro planned to destroy the Solo family. But now she fights an intense inner battle—against her growing spice addiction, and her growing friendship with Jacen and Jaina. She no longer knows where her loyalties lie. In desperation for spice, she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy. The young Jedi Knights give chase, following her from the spice mines of Kessel to the dangerous paradise of Crystal Reef. But Anja has been a pawn all along in a game that is much bigger than all of them. And they just landed in the middle of it…

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Science Fiction, Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Science Fiction · Nonfiction · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Steady pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

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Star Wars: Crisis at Crystal ReefKevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA shorter read215 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1998
Primary categoryScience FictionAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-4251-6519-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL7504192M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Science Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which familiar part of life becomes easier to see through this imagined world?
  2. What rules shape the world, and who benefits from them?
  3. Where does wonder, fear, or possibility change a character’s choices?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.