(I received a free copy of this book from Diamond BookDistributors, through NetGalley, in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
Star Wars has always been one of my favourite things, ever since I can remember. I don’t know when I first watched the original trilogy, but I have all sorts of memories of watching and re-watching it. And I remember reading loads of tie-in novels, as well as listening to at least one audio tape.
I think this might be the first Star Wars thing I’ve read that’s set quite far in the future. It was really interesting to see a future Skywalker, though I’m not sure I could say Cade is a really likable character.
The artwork was good, but I felt that, in some places, it was a bit too strong in the drawings. I felt that the female characters had fairly masculine looks about them.
In a way, I also felt that this mirrored the original series quite a lot. The whole Dark Side and Light Side thing has kind of become more guidelines than hard and fast rules, though. Characters seem able to toe the line between them – and it also seems very black and white, with no grey areas. (If you kill someone with Force Choke or with a lightsabre, it doesn’t matter how you did it… they’re still dead).
Cade was still an interesting character and I did like his relationships with the other characters. I did also like the ending of this book. It was an entertaining read, though I did have to squint a bit to read some of the speech.
Although this was the third book, I did find it fairly easy to understand. I think I’d definitely check out other comics/graphic novels set in the Star Wars universe in the future. I really liked seeing the glimpses of Luke in this book, too.
Happy to find your blog! While my own writing focus is largely on food, I’ve started offering fiction and nonfiction book giveaways. In crafting reviews, I am happy to learn from folks who have been at this longer than I! 🙂
Hi there. I think writing reviews is a good thing – it gets your writing out there generally and it’s always good to publicise yourself. I write a lot more reviews than I used to – I don’t think I’ve been doing this more than two years, but it does feel like a lot longer.