This was pretty solid, though I think it felt slow to me to start, but the second half of the book went by fast, and there were some really good moments without the plot feeling too big to keep track of. Really fun characters,

although I was kind of hmm on Pax because like lol raised by protocol droids but also uh weirdly coded as autistic? But could just be me.

It also grappled pretty hard with the larger questions of the role of the Jedi in the Republic, and the Council's relationship to change.

I would say what is most disappointing about this is that it definitely feels like a standalone, when I just want more of these two, but that's probably my Jedi Apprentice love talking... give me 200 books of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan please. There's also like some really interesting overall implications, and I think this book makes some of Qui-Gon's Big Faults in The Phantom Menace a little smoothed over, which is nice.