Luke Skywalker challenged the stormtroopers of a distant galaxy on a daring mission – where a force of life became the power of death! Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle’s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine … and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars—adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn’t know who she was, but he knew he had to save her—and soon, because time was running out.Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father’s, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever … and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!

Before I start this review, I need to say 2 things. The first one is that this book wasn’t written by George Lucas himself, instead it was written by a ghostwriter who many of star wars book fans might have heard of, of course I’m talking about Alan Dean Foster. The second thing I need to say is that I’ve read this book in a collector’s edition which involves the original trilogy books in one big book. And I have decided to review each of these original trilogy books for itself because in that way each review will be shorter and easier to read rather than me giving you like 10 pages long review.

The story in this book is more or less what we see in the movie, but there are some differences between this book and the movie. The main difference is that this book provides more inner dialogues of the characters. Which made me enjoy the storyline more in this book rather than the movie’s. Because it gives us a deeper understanding of the characters which all star wars fans love at this point.

The other difference in this book is the political system being a little bit different from the movie and the ending is a little bit different, because it ends sooner than the movie with the purpose of making us as readers to read the “ The Empire Strikes Back” book. Which of course I had. 

The only bad thing I have to say about this book, is that it could have been longer rather than the short 250 pages this book gives us. Am a huge star wars nerd, and I would have had no problems reading this book (or any other star wars book for that part) even if it had 1250 pages in length.

The characters in this book were as amazing as they were in the movie. They were the same characters we get in the movie which doesn’t give me a lot of ability to talk about those characters because we already know and love them (or at least I do as a star wars nerd).

At the same time this book provides some explanation behind the things that happen throughout this book. Which made it easier to love the characters in this book, because we in a way get a look on whats happening in their heads and hear their reasoning and thoughts.

The writing itself in this book, is very on point with star wars theme. But there were a few moment throughout this book where the writing style of this book felt a little bit off. because it felt more fantasy-ish rather than star wars-ish if you understand what am saying here.

Even thou this book has some differences from the movie, it was still a very fun and interesting read because of the fact that we get to hear the inner monologues of the characters we get in the first star wars movie.

I Give This Book 4 / 5