jedi apprentice had a HUGE mostly-female fanbase back in the day, and part of the reason was because it read like your high school fanfiction, what with the flowery prose and the endless tragedies for backstory and the taking time out every few seconds to describe how good-looking the characters were and lines like “penetrating blue stare” and “midnight-blue gaze” whenever qui-gon and/or xanatos were around
the other reason was because it LITERALLY WAS that, it was the BEST WORST kind of fanfiction, except back then it was canon