Bloodline by Claudia Gray
Ugh I had such high hopes for this, it hits every single bingo block for me: Star Wars! Leia! Inevitable Doom with Irony! Instead, I found it lacking in a very similar way that WW84 was lacking–namely that 24 years later a woman who has now been a public figure the vast majority of her adult life is still being defined by or remembering four years worth of events from ages ago? With much of the EU (almost all of it) non-canon, Gray has the […]
Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan (Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi) by Claudia Grey
I really enjoyed Claudia Gray’s Bloodline when I listened to it almost exactly two years ago. I was delighted to find an audio version of Gray’s Leia: Princess of Alderaan and immediately dropped everything else I was listening to. I was 8 when Star Wars: A New Hope came out. I have never been a super fan, but Star Wars is one of the cultural touchstones of my life. As a kid, my roll models were Jamie Summers – the Bionic Woman, Diana Prince – […]
Claudia Gray is three for three with Star Wars books. I’ve been reading Star Wars books for over half my life now (!) and she is probably the best, most consistent author of these books that I have any experience of. She brings such a nice sense of nuance and character depth. And she really gets Leia, as she proved in her adult novel, Bloodline (which is probably my favorite Star Wars book), and as she proves again here in this young adult take on […]
