Star Wars: Brotherhood

By: Mike Chen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights in a high-stakes adventure set just after the events of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: USA Today

The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers.

After an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order’s most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. As Obi-Wan investigates with the help of a heroic Neimoidian guard, he finds himself working against the Separatists who hope to draw the planet into their conspiracy—and senses the sinister hand of Asajj Ventress in the mists that cloak the planet.

Amid the brewing chaos, Anakin Skywalker rises to the rank of Jedi Knight. Despite the mandate that Obi-Wan travel alone—and his former master’s insistence that he listen this time—Anakin’s headstrong determination means nothing can stop him from crashing the party, and bringing along a promising but conflicted youngling.

Once a Padawan to Obi-Wan, Anakin now finds himself on equal—but uncertain—footing with the man who raised him. The lingering friction between them increases the danger for everyone around them. The two knights must learn a new way to work together—and they must learn quickly, to save Cato Neimoidia and its people from the fires of war. To overcome the threat they face they must grow beyond master and apprentice. They must stand together as brothers.

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A perfect addition to The Clone Wars

A perfect tie-in for The Clone Wars, showing the wars early days and it's effects on Jedi and others. Narration and sound design are excellent, as is the writing and dialogue.

Beautiful

Initially I was not enthusiastic about this book and my expectation was low. But oh my gosh this was a great read. This have so many nuggets it is worth a second listen!

Very fun listen

Love Obi-Wan and Anakin's relationships here. Jonathan Davis was great as always. Love that it's basically season 0 of the Clone Wars

more like it

This is what Starwars is supposed to be... no milkyway galaxy politics just Jedi being Jedi..

fantastic

the Disney cannon books are okay at best but this one is as good as a legends story. you could tell the author actually cares about star wars and the characters and it shows

Amazing! Especially right before Obi Wan Kenobi show.

Loved this story! Hoping for a sequel that keeps the story going right at the beginning of the clone wars and when Anakin takes Ahsoka Tano as Padawan.

Good lead into The Clone Wars animated movie

I listened to Master & Apprentice before listening to this book. It tied in very well. This is a good book to fill in a lot of gaps between Attack Of The Clones, The Clone Wars animated movie, and Revenge Of The Sith.
There are several reflections to Master & Apprentice the will make more since if you listen to that book first. Over all a great book.

Representation for Neimoidians!

I will always appreciate an addition to legends and canon. And this was a nice story. Not particularly exciting, but what we finally get is some idea of how the events after AOTC impacts the neimoidian race. Up through now I am guilty of having associated all beings from Kato Neimoidia with the separatists. But that’s not necessarily the case. Took long enough to break my villain bias!

Given that there are many exciting stories now available (ex for the high republic and rogue squadron) and kenobi coming out soon on Disney plus with a MUCH anticipated story, I would have thought that maybe a more exciting story could have been crafted. Particularly since there’s sooooo much clone wars content already.

The author did a good job, I would just challenge him to write a story about something within legends and/or canon that doesn’t already have a ton of material for already. I just got done re-listening to the first Bane book, so in comparison Brotherhood really isn’t one of the stories that will stand out to me. I didn’t learn a whole lot more about the characters I’m already familiar with, and it wasn’t a particularly memorable chapter in the Clone Wars era.

Brothers in Arms

The story was excellent. Mike Chen really fleshes o out why Obi-Wan and Anakin are “Brothers” and it makes what happens in Episode III and the Disney Plus series Kenobi all the more heartbreaking. Chen also does a great job tying up any questions we may have had about what happened before the 2008 movie The Clone Wars. Narrator Jonathan Davis does a very good job. He’s no Marc Thompson in terms of the amount of voices he can do but he was easy to listen to. Overall I give this a 9/10.

Great book

Really enjoyed this one. Gives insight to Obi-wan and Anakin's inner thoughts and feelings. Some parts got really intense where I couldn't stop listening. It's cool to have a whole book based on Obi-wan's comment in ROS "that business on Kato-Naimoidia doesn't...doesn't count" (24:45 in the movie)