Star Wars: Journal - The Fight for Justice

Star Wars: Journals

by John Peel

In a story written in first person, Luke Skywalker tells the inside story of how he became a Jedi Knight and his battle with the evil Empire. Original.

Genres: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Childrens

115 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Daleks novels.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations based upon episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basically a re-telling of Star Wars: A New Hope, but this book has managed to make Luke Skywalker even more annoying than the first movie. Might be good for young kids though looking to get into Star Wars though

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a stronger "journal" than the previous one and Peel did a good job of recreating Luke's voice (I'd say it was done passably instead of perfectly, but that's only because this book was aimed at younger readers - and I think it would be received well by is target audience).

[Thomas Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love these journals!

[Gary Varga · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read well for the target audience, however, I was hoping for more personal insight into Luke's feelings.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son loved this book. We read it together

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent middle grade level recap about Luke's experiences in A New Hope. There was really a lot of thought put into this examining Luke's motivations and his feelings about losing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, and Ben, and Biggs. I think these Journals in general have been pretty nicely done, but this is my favorite.

[AxeL Juarez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book blew mind. It felt like the death star blasted my brain. How can they book a character that does not exist in a first point of view. It takes into an amazing adventure. As Luke is in tatoine from one point to the other he ends up fighting the empire. It contains sad moments. I recommend this to star wars fans especially Matt.

[Hazel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book doesn't really seem like a journal, and doesn't really sound like Luke Skywalker. It includes some of the extra stuff that's not in the movie, but for the most part it is just A New Hope from a different perspective. A perspective that is not terribly interesting.

[Steven Hummer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book I read as a kid that was very entertaining Luke Skywalker is my favorite Star Wars guy.
A good book for kids who love Star Wars.

[Jeneé · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my favorite out of the others.

Great book for a younger crowd.

[Tommy Schlosser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not something I would read on my own, but to see it excite my 5 year old is totally worth it. I enjoy how it ties the story of one character from several movies into one concise book.