As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he’s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders.
This book takes place some time before the Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And it was relatively a good book.
The plot here was good, interesting and enjoyable. However the plot kept changing between characters which was really hard to keep up with this. Near the ending we got one short chapter about Han Solo and Chewbacca. But this chapter wasn’t relevant to the book and it was like just giving us a hint that the OG characters are still around.
There are many moments in this book that were super unnecessary and should have been skipped. But of course they weren’t.
This book gives us new characters but it keeps talking about the OG characters like Darth Vader, Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca and Darth Sidious. Which really pissed me off because if the point of the author was to give us new characters then he shouldn’t keep bringing the OG character in almost every sentence.
The new characters in this book were very flat. And the fact that the book is mentioning the original character almost in every sentence doesn’t make it better. Because it didn’t give us the chance to like the new character but this book is rather throwing at us memories of the original character like “remember when Han Solo did that?”, “Remember when Darth Vader killed Darth Sidious?”.
The writing style here was very simple and easy. Which really made it good mix with the easy plot in this book.
To be honest this book feels like its meant for teens since nothing bad happens in it and it has the huge hope vibe to the entire book. And both the plot and the writing style are very easy and they dint require a lot of brain power to it.
To be fully honest this book should have been written by a author who have written good star wars books in the past like Timothy Zahn, R.A. Salvatore and some other authors.
I Give This Book 3 / 5
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