Book #138 of 2022: Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis This Star Wars novel — not to be confused with Alexandra Bracken’s 2015 junior novelization of A New Hope, entitled The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy — is slow on plot but rich in characterization, and covering a period …
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Book #291 of 2020: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the second Star Wars movie, this collection presents 40 new stories revisiting its timeline, in the form of either familiar scenes from the perspective of minor film characters or …
Book #125 of 2018: Star Wars: Rebel Rising by Beth Revis A solid if somewhat unremarkable Star Wars adventure, fleshing out Jyn Erso’s early life after she gets adopted by the terrorist Saw Gerrera at the beginning of Rogue One. The whole book reads mostly like a series of deleted scenes from that film, and …
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Book #31 of 2018: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, this book presents 40 short stories retelling the events of that film from the perspective of various minor characters — from Jawas to stormtroopers to the thing …
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