Book #1 of 2026: Star Wars: Master of Evil by Adam Christopher This is a solid but basically unspectacular Star Wars novel, unfortunately saddled with a misleading title, publisher’s summary, and cover art. It’s only a Darth Vader story in that he’s around for a lot of the plot, but he gets just a handful …
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Book #193 of 2025: Star Wars: The Last Order by Kwame Mbalia This Star Wars title has definite potential, but it unfortunately doesn’t live up to it in my opinion. The action unfolds across three different timelines, one of which at least should have automatic appeal for any fan — it’s canonically the latest story …
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Book #182 of 2025: Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown by Tessa Gratton I remain dissatisfied with Disney’s treatment of the Acolyte branch of its Star Wars universe: first canceling the flawed-but-engaging TV show after a single season that ended on several obvious cliffhangers, and then, presumably recognizing that the program had amassed a …
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Movie #22 of 2025: The Ewok Adventure (1984) My daughters (aged 6 and 4) lost interest midway through both A New Hope and The Phantom Menace, so I decided to see if this TV movie from the 1980s — later retitled to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, though I’ve never called it by that …
TV #52 of 2025: Star Wars: Visions, season 3 I rated the previous batches of this experimental Star Wars anthology as two and four stars respectively, and so this latest one will get a rating of three from me, as it lands comfortably between the first pair. Like before, each episode is the product of …
Book #171 of 2025: Star Wars: Dark Legends by George Mann This 2020 title, recently re-released as an audiobook, offers a fun concept, executed well: seven short stories in the Star Wars universe, all with some sort of spooky flair. I don’t want to oversell the horror here — these are PG scares, and not …
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Book #160 of 2025: Star Wars: The Jaws of Jakku by Cavan Scott I picked up this audiobook-only Star Wars title in the hopes that its premise — following Rey, Finn, and BB-8 on a soul-searching mission back to the young woman’s homeworld after the events of The Last Jedi — would help smooth the …
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Book #149 of 2025: Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker by Justina Ireland This Star Wars novel is misleadingly labeled, and I suspect I would have given it a pass if it had been correctly identified as a part of the franchise’s High Republic line — which I largely haven’t read — rather than a prequel …
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Book #138 of 2025: Star Wars: Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel by Lamar Giles The animated Star Wars series The Bad Batch ended in 2024 after a respectable run of 47 episodes, so I’m a little confused about this new title that just came out, more than a year later. It does not appear to …
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TV #27 of 2025: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, season 1 “This is solid but unremarkable Star Wars for the most part, and although it isn’t the worst of the franchise, it never comes close to justifying its existence.” That’s what I said in my review of last year’s Tales of the Empire cartoon …
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