Star Wars: Padawan

De: Kiersten White

Narrado por: Gary Furlong

The #1 New York Times Bestseller about the iconic character Obi-Wan Kenobi and his time as a teenage Jedi in training.

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Frustrating inner monologues

Star Wars : Padawan venting my frustration

Listening to the Padawan audio book and I really enjoy the story beats as a whole, and the voice acting and production values are all top notch but the first half, or maybe even two thirds, of the book it felt like every single chapter had to regurgitate the exact same insecure monologue thoughts over and over and over again, like maybe 15 or 20 times and I can’t help but feeling like this otherwise wonderful book could really have used a little constructive criticism from the editor to eliminate some of the more egregious repetition….

But then I was curious about whether or not this is a common practice in YA fiction as the target audience may need some points hammered home more than standard novels audiences.
It’s been a while since I was a young adult, but I am a huge SW fan and completionist so now that there are no standard novels left I have not read, I have been hitting the YA books that escaped my net at release date. (i.e. Padawan , queens hope, queens shadow, free fall) I am curious if this type of consistent revisiting of the protagonist’s inner monologue is something I should be preparing myself for across the genre or not.