My first mistake was giving a DisneyWars book a chance. My second mistake was trying to read this after finishing the incredible Jedi Apprentice series. This book was a mockery of what the Jedi Apprentice series made of Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's relationship as Master and Padawan. 

The book starts off with a terrible fight scene where 17 year old Obi-Wan needs his Master to yell orders across the room to him. By now Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have been Master and Apprentice for 4 years and yet somehow they need to speak out loud to fight together? What where they doing for training in the last four years, hiding in the temple and meditating? (According to the other DisneyWars book Padawan, that is exactly what they were doing. At least DisneyWars got some consistancy right.) The whole point of a Master and Padawan is for the Padwan to learn from the master as they begin their journey toward knighthood. They are supposed to work together, go on missions and learn from each other and become one person where they can anticipate the others move so they don't have to communicate with words. 

And don't get me started on the whining. When the mission is over and they are heading back to Coruscant, Qui-Gon is all angsty teenager because he feels like he is failing his Padawan. This is a grown man who is supposed to be training this boy in order for him to someday pass his trials and become a Jedi Knight. All Qui-Gon is doing is making Obi-Wan feel like a failure for Qui-Gon's own doubts and anxieties. Which shows in Obi-Wan's train of thought on the same flight home that he spends appologizing for not anticipating Qui-Gon's moves and not obeying orders. This isn't a soap opera, its a space opera and I don't think the author knows the difference. 

Please, do yourself a favor and throw this book out and go read the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. Its a 20 book series that follows 13 year old Obi-Wan first becoming a padawan of Qui-Gon's all the way until Obi-Wan is 17. It is so much better and perfectly depicts how different Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are without making them whiny and annoying. They are such different characters and the author actually does a good job of turning Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon from practical strangers to friends to dare I even say family. They are so excellently depicted that I was so sad that the series ended and we were on our way to Qui-Gon's death. Which, the Jedi Apprentice series will really hit home how much Qui-Gon's death will really effect Obi-Wan with how close the two of them become through the apprenticship.