I liked how this book depicted Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, however some things got pretty repetitive, for example, Qui-Gon would remark about how he and Obi-Wan were so different almost incessantly and it just became tiring.

The main concept of this book is to show how Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan went from not working the best together, to what we saw in The Phantom Menace. However I think this could have been shown a bit better, as they really only start gelling well together during the last act.

In the epilogue it's just told to us that they started becoming better partners after this book's events and it's not really shown that much.

I just wish we could have seen more of them working well together.

The plot and the other characters were good, but not anything amazing. I did like Rael's character as he was pretty different from the other Jedi. Also, the plot twist at the end really surprised me. As for the flashbacks, I thought they were pretty good as they added more context to the story and Qui-Gon's arc. The book also had some pretty funny moments, especially the one with Obi-Wan flying at the end. I could not stop laughing the whole time.

I do appreciate this book for being unique as it took place in a time period which hasn't been explored a lot in the Disney canon. Overall though this was a decent novel, but not anything too memorable or special.