Book #132 of 2026: Star Wars: Legacy by Madeleine Roux Three-and-a-half stars, rounded up, for this Star Wars tie-in novel that takes place between the movies The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. It’s a messier narrative than I would ideally prefer, with too many extraneous characters and a plot heavily revolving around Force …
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Book #121 of 2026: Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston I swore off author Ashley Poston after not really caring for either Heart of Iron or Among the Beasts & Briars, but Star Wars lured me back with a new line of tie-in novels that Lucasfilm Publishing has described as offering “genre stories …
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TV #20 of 2026: Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, season 1 On balance I think I’ll give this latest animated Star Wars series three-out-of-five stars, with the acknowledgment that it gets substantially better over the course of its ten-episode run. The problem is that early on, the program doesn’t really have a clear premise …
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Book #54 of 2026: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover Novelizations are often dismissed as weak cash-grabs, but in truth the format is — or at least, can be — an art form like any other. Some adaptations are practically invisible, conveying the action from the screen without embellishment, while others struggle …
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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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