| Diversity Alliance (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 8) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 164570
Category: Book
Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Berkley
Studio: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Label: Berkley
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1572972343
EAN: 9781572972346
ASIN: 1572972343
Publication Date: April 1, 1997
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Product Description
When a fellow Jedi student, who holds the key to a New Republic secret coalition, turns up missing, the young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him and are forced to confront a deadly enemy. Original.
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Four Stars August 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really didn't expect to like this book after reading Shards of Aldderaan where there was that big error about Luke's birthday but I had liked the other previous Young Jedi Knight books so I gave it a try and was happy I died. Raynar summoned home by his mother to find his father is missing. Aliens (non-humans) are after a plague that could kill humans but not aliens. I found the idea that aleins untying against humans to be very a very creative plot. Once again the charactoriations impress me. I love charactors that are fleshed out.
 Not as good as Books 1-6 June 5, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Plot line is weak and doesn't make much sense. The young Jedi knights don't seem to catch on to things quickly in this one. I am reading this series to my son who is 7, and he enjoys them. He isn't as annoyed by the out-of-character behavior of the main characters and bounty hunter as I am. Some of the more grusome graphic descriptions are not necessary and detract from the book.
 A Very Good Book November 12, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do you like Star Wars? Well if you do you should read the book the Diversty Aliance part of the Jouner Jedi Kinghts series. Its about after the movies. Its hard to compare to any series because most of the other books are about the movies. The book the Diversty Aliance is about a group of aliens called the Diversty Aliance that are looking for a plague that can kill all human life but aliens are immune to it. There leader has sent allmost every bounty hunter to find it. I think it was a good book for ages 9-13 I read this book in 1day. I liked it because I`m a Star Wars fan and you get to read about some old charters like Han Solo And some new ones like Louwe.
A very good book that does credit to the series January 5, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have always thought the first series of Young Jedi Knights (Heirs of the Force, Shadow Academy, The Lost Ones, Lightsabers, Darkest Knight, and Jedi Under Siege) to be superior to this series (Shards of Alderaan, Diversity Alliance, Delusions of Granduer, Jedi Bounty, and The Emperor's Plague) simply because the foe was a little more interesting to me, and the characters seemed a bit better fleshed out. Now that I am older however, and reading these again for the first time in several years, I have more of an open mind and I realized that this second series is in fact very good, and, while it doesn't have as much action as the first series, the character development is superb. In this book Raynar's mother calls him to come home and be with her while his father is missing. He does and is accompanied by Jacen , Jaina, Tenel Ka, and Lowie who wish to keep him company and give him moral support while he gets settled but as you can propably guess, things do not go exacly as planned, and soon they are all off on an adventure to Kuar to try and discover where Raynar's father might have gone, with the absence of Raynar, who stays with his mother. Through epic battles with giant combat arachnids and assasin droids, they begin to discover that Raynar's father could be hiding for more reasons than his reputation, and that in fact there is a high probability that he is in fact hiding a secret that could destroy the galaxy... So anyway, this was a great book, though it would make more sense if you have already read all the previous books in the series, including the ones from the first series. One of the few things I don't really like that much about this series, is that everyone has to have someone else to "like". This gets incresingly annoying as the series goes on and the kids get older. And lets face it, Raaba's only purpose of existance is so Lowie will not be left out of all this. Zekk started out that way too, but luckily he now has his own place in the Star Wars world other than The Boy Jaina Likes, so I guess there is still hope. One of the good things is that it only goes as far as mild crushes and never all that boyfriend/girlfriend, breaking up and all that, so that is good thing, especially for someone like me who is not very big on romance at all, especially imature teen romance which seems to be so popular.
Worth your money June 8, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've read all of the other books in the series, you'll enjoy reading this one. If you haven't, you may want to read "Shards of Alderaan" first. However, this book is wonderful for leading up to the rest of the Diverstiy Alliance based books. It's a lot of background setting for the rest of the series. You won't regret buying it.
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