Finished reading Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin, writer Charles Soule brings a story from a simpler and still unknown time in the Star Wars history of the current cannon as the book follows a journey that Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker took during a period which Anakin is questioning about his course of life between the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones films. The book opens up with Oni-Wan and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker crash landing on the planet Carnelian IV where the Jedi Order received a distress call. After jettisoning themselves to safety the two are caught in the middle of a war between two factions called the Open and the Closed who's leaders reluctantly band together to help Obi-Wan and Anakin on their journey to find the source of the signal. Overall this was a good book as it dives into a time where Anakin Skywalker was still a Padawan in the Jedi order and through his point of view the book helps to show the sub-surface of Coruscant with Palpatine as one of the biggest foreshadowing moments of the book with how Palpatine is with Anakin and it works extremely within the context of the book. The transition between the main storyline on Carnelian IV and the flashback story of Anakin back on Coruscant flows very well as the scenes on Coruscant help to show what has been happening to the two Jedi and what has put a strain on the relationship between master and apprentice. The art by Marco Checchetto is stunning as the designs of the location, people and vehicles on Carnelian IV to the familiar setting of Coruscant are great while colourist Andres Mossa helps to bring a sense of how grand every thing is. 7.5/10.
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