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Until then, I fight

Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan (Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi) by Claudia Grey

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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 – Wonder Woman, and Princess Leia Organa. Princess Leia was the one with smart mouth and […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 41 |

Ugh! There’s Anakin in my Thrawn

Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn

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I enjoyed Star Wars: Thrawn very much and was looking forward to Thrawn: Alliances. I was dismayed when I discovered that the book splits it’s time between Thrawn’s partnership with Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala, and Thrawn’s reluctant partnership with Darth Vader. Ugh. I dislike Anakin Skywalker so much, and not because he becomes Darth Vader. He is whiny, angry, and too certain of himself. I find him tiresome. I side-eye Padme Amidala too, because what on earth does she see in this murderous, mopey asshole? Unfortunately, Zahn’s text did nothing to endear Anakin or Padme to me, and I don’t […]

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5/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 34 |

What’s the cheat code to get a sequel?

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier

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I’ve been playing video games as long as I can remember. When I was a child I would walk to the laundry mat/videorama to rent new games. I was lucky to own a couple of titles, but if it wasn’t a birthday or Christmas, I had to use my allowance to rent. The game boxes filled two cases, facing forwards from floor to ceiling. There must have been 50 titles to choose from each promising a new magical adventure. I don’t think I ever gave serious thought to how the games were created. I might have even thought they were […]

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1/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 2 |

Just your run of the mill novelization, with some deleted scenes.

The Last Jedi (Star Wars Novelizations, #8) by Jason Fry

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The movie did it better. To be fair, the movie always does it better than the novelization. Novelizations are nearly to a one marketing ploys. But after having read the novelization for Rogue One, I am now spoiled for all future movie novelizations. That book was fantastic. It was a piece of art all on its own, and I nearly liked it better than the movie. This was not that. It was competent. Nothing was wrong. But most importantly, it didn’t really translate; the big moments did not hit here like they did in the film. They mostly just zoomed […]

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5/15/2018 | Post by

Getting to know some new authors in a familiar setting

Canto Bight (Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi) by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller

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There won’t be any spoilers for Star Wars in this review.  This book also contains no spoilers for the movies.   Canto Bight is a new location to the Star Wars universe.  It is a planet that is relevant only because on it rests the city of Canto Bight.  Canto Bight, the place, is Las Vegas and Dubai but more extravagant.  Canto Bight, the book, is a collection of short stories follows a several minor characters, heretofore unknown to the greater Star Wars universe. So, I love the Star Wars new cannon audiobooks.  I never read the books from the […]

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faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it.

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

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I’ve really been trying to make an effort in 2018 to read books I already own. Currently the amount of books I own but haven’t read, including in audio and e-book, numbers around 221. faintingviolet gave me this book in the CBR book exchange in December 2016, two weeks before Carrie Fisher died. Even though I was beyond excited to finally have it in my possession, since it had been on my TBR for years and I’d never gotten around to it, I just couldn’t make myself read it. I was still too sad that she was gone. But I’m now in a […]

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Young Princess Leia backstory, thumbs up.

Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

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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 the character. Leia, Princess of Alderaan, takes place three years before Episode IV, as Leia […]

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Short and Simple Expansion on a Couple of my Favourite Star Wars Characters

Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

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A short and sweet little story to expand on a couple of characters we see all too briefly in the Star Wars cinematic universe: upon watching Rogue One, I immediately fell in love with Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe, the two “guardians” of the Temple of Kyber in the city of Jedha. They act like an old married couple, one a little gruff and the other full of mysticism and hope, joining our heros in their quest to bring hope to the galaxy in defeating the empire. But you’ve all seen Rogue One and know this by now right? Well, […]

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