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samreads_alot's review against another edition
3.0
Other reviews are saying if you’re a casual fan or not you’ll enjoy this book... well I’m not just a casual fan, but I also am just getting into the books and have dabbled a little bit into the video games.
If you are not familiar with the characters from the other books in canon or have never played battlefront then it’s going to be very hard to follow along. When or alien races get hardly any description as to what they look like and characters that are known elsewhere get no description whatsoever it’s very hard for me to picture in my head who’s who and keep keep all of these new starwarsy names straight. I was constantly getting lost and couldn’t clearly picture what was going on. Maybe that’s just my lack of imagination or the fact that We have so much visual content given to us through the movies and now tv shows and video games.
I honestly couldn’t even put my finger on what this books goal was to accomplish. I Know very well where the last Jedi left off, and I couldn’t figure out what was the plot was trying to be. Even halfway through the book I was skimming to find pages with Poe, Rey, Finn or Leia cause those were the only parts that had some sense.
I’m sure if I knew the other characters maybe it would be better, and maybe once I do I can give this one another try, but having seen episode 9 twice now, I don’t see where this book comes into play at all.
If you are not familiar with the characters from the other books in canon or have never played battlefront then it’s going to be very hard to follow along. When or alien races get hardly any description as to what they look like and characters that are known elsewhere get no description whatsoever it’s very hard for me to picture in my head who’s who and keep keep all of these new starwarsy names straight. I was constantly getting lost and couldn’t clearly picture what was going on. Maybe that’s just my lack of imagination or the fact that We have so much visual content given to us through the movies and now tv shows and video games.
I honestly couldn’t even put my finger on what this books goal was to accomplish. I Know very well where the last Jedi left off, and I couldn’t figure out what was the plot was trying to be. Even halfway through the book I was skimming to find pages with Poe, Rey, Finn or Leia cause those were the only parts that had some sense.
I’m sure if I knew the other characters maybe it would be better, and maybe once I do I can give this one another try, but having seen episode 9 twice now, I don’t see where this book comes into play at all.
downby1's review against another edition
2.0
The journey to The Rise of Skywalker is short, bland, and ultimately raises almost as many questions as the movie itself. Direct media tie-ins have a mixed reputation in the Star Wars canon--both old and new--but some of them manage to be serviceable and at least tolerable, like A Crash of Fate. Resistance Reborn spends much of its time trying to figure out what to be why retaining a breakneck pacing even J.J. Abrams would likely find intolerable at times. It is a messy effort to try and stitch together characters and other stories from across the Disney canon into the story of the most recent movie, which seems a strange use of time given how few of them appeared in the movie. Typically, you would at least expect such an effort to give some meaning and life to the background characters it tries to explore. What it gives instead is such a crude story as to be little more than stage direction.
Resistance Reborn underscores how much of its own story could have been incorporated into the film it is hurdling to like a drunk during a bar crawl. It would need to have been edited and would not be as long, but the novel did not use its length in any substantive way. Despite the purpose to show how the Resistance was rekindling itself, the book offers a depressing air of how badly the New Republic and the Rebellion era heroes must have been at rebuilding the galaxy after the Empire's collapse for its population to not even care about the government's abrupt end. In what is surely an effort to highlight the banality of evil, the First Order records clerk at what you have to call the center is a boring, two-dimensional character who falls well short of similar intentions like From a Certain Point of View's 'The Sith of Datawork'. The flight to planet to planet, the desperation of the Resistance's cause, and even the race to find allies old and new before they are swept up by the First Order is such a hot, empty air there is no reason to know any more of the journey to the movie than there was to watch a Fast and Furious preview before the movie itself.
Resistance Reborn underscores how much of its own story could have been incorporated into the film it is hurdling to like a drunk during a bar crawl. It would need to have been edited and would not be as long, but the novel did not use its length in any substantive way. Despite the purpose to show how the Resistance was rekindling itself, the book offers a depressing air of how badly the New Republic and the Rebellion era heroes must have been at rebuilding the galaxy after the Empire's collapse for its population to not even care about the government's abrupt end. In what is surely an effort to highlight the banality of evil, the First Order records clerk at what you have to call the center is a boring, two-dimensional character who falls well short of similar intentions like From a Certain Point of View's 'The Sith of Datawork'. The flight to planet to planet, the desperation of the Resistance's cause, and even the race to find allies old and new before they are swept up by the First Order is such a hot, empty air there is no reason to know any more of the journey to the movie than there was to watch a Fast and Furious preview before the movie itself.
makenziewho's review against another edition
4.0
Mixed feelings, but overall a very fun read and a great lead-in to TROS. Random (spoilery!) thoughts- Loved sewing Black Squadron back together but especially loved my girl Suralinda and her sass. Leia!! So many good Leia moments. And RANSOLM CASTERFO!!!!!???!
dahlreads's review against another edition
4.0
This was a great lead up to the upcoming Star Wars film. Not only do we get more interactions between Rey and Leia (MY HEART), but we also are privy to the exhaustion Leia feels in trying to keep the spark of the rebellion alive. We also get more Poe and how he’s dealing with the guilt of the events of The Last Jedi. Overall an enjoyable read especially for excited Star Wars fans.
fisk42's review against another edition
3.0
Solid book but suffers from some treading of water in preparation for the actual events of The Rise of Skywalker (which I have many of my own opinions on). Poe and other Resistance figures attempt to recruit more people to their cause and are only very mildly successful.
poppyparkes's review against another edition
3.0
This was a pretty decent book plot wise, bringing in ideas and characters from many other Star Wars books and I really appreciated that. However, it did feel like a filler book designed to make the opening of the Rose of Skywalker feel more cohesive with the rest of the canon.
silent_layla's review against another edition
4.0
Actually 3.5
This is the most well written Star Wars book I have ever read! Rebecca Roanhorse did a excellent job here given what she had to work with. I also thought she did characterization of our main characters very well! Despite not having a whole lot of Rey in this book, the stuff you do get is right on the nose in terms of her mindset post-Crait. I liked that she’s still kind of a loner and secretive and not quite ready to take on the massive amount of responsibility as a Jedi. Leia too was very well done as was Poe!
Now I’m not a huge fan of Poe, and this book is quite literally mostly about Poe. Add in a couple more new characters or other extended EU characters-that’s this book.
The reasons I didn’t like it was because it didn’t really give us anything new! Marketed as sort of essential reading yet by the end we aren’t even close to where the resistance is suppose to be for nine. The best scenes were the ones released as exclusives and the rest of the book was long drawn out action sequences and heist shenanigans. Now don’t get me wrong I enjoyed it and, again, the writing was the best I’ve seen, but it not what I wanted out of this book. I felt like we needed just a little bit more to set us up for nine, because we still basically know nothing about Reys journey with the force. Or any idea what Kylo as Supreme Leader is doing ( yes rounding up sympathizers, but I thought that seemed more just a mechanism in place before his rise to power?). My last gripe was I that I’d hoped they would explain how much everyone knows about what happened to Rey: what’s her story about what happened with Snoke? Does Leia/Finn know she had a force bond with Kylo? But to no avail, there were no answers here.
Rey does have this great line where she says, “hope isn’t foolish,” of something to that vein. In context i think it’s in reference to her previous talk with Leia and it’s just good ;)
This is the most well written Star Wars book I have ever read! Rebecca Roanhorse did a excellent job here given what she had to work with. I also thought she did characterization of our main characters very well! Despite not having a whole lot of Rey in this book, the stuff you do get is right on the nose in terms of her mindset post-Crait. I liked that she’s still kind of a loner and secretive and not quite ready to take on the massive amount of responsibility as a Jedi. Leia too was very well done as was Poe!
Now I’m not a huge fan of Poe, and this book is quite literally mostly about Poe. Add in a couple more new characters or other extended EU characters-that’s this book.
The reasons I didn’t like it was because it didn’t really give us anything new! Marketed as sort of essential reading yet by the end we aren’t even close to where the resistance is suppose to be for nine. The best scenes were the ones released as exclusives and the rest of the book was long drawn out action sequences and heist shenanigans. Now don’t get me wrong I enjoyed it and, again, the writing was the best I’ve seen, but it not what I wanted out of this book. I felt like we needed just a little bit more to set us up for nine, because we still basically know nothing about Reys journey with the force. Or any idea what Kylo as Supreme Leader is doing ( yes rounding up sympathizers, but I thought that seemed more just a mechanism in place before his rise to power?). My last gripe was I that I’d hoped they would explain how much everyone knows about what happened to Rey: what’s her story about what happened with Snoke? Does Leia/Finn know she had a force bond with Kylo? But to no avail, there were no answers here.
Rey does have this great line where she says, “hope isn’t foolish,” of something to that vein. In context i think it’s in reference to her previous talk with Leia and it’s just good ;)
cat_thecatlady's review against another edition
2.0
totally filler and irrelevant book. adds absolutely nothing to the narrative of star wars, quite the opposite. it does a terrible job in being a tie-in book.
it's a parade of other SW characters that you don't really care about. and the ones you do just... don't do anything really. the story is so surface level that you aren't able to care for either hero nor villains (who are complete jokes and caricatures). I even got angry at Poe, which I wasn't expecting at all.
I'm just very mad at this book, it felt like a waste of time. I can't think of anything particular that I liked.
it's a parade of other SW characters that you don't really care about. and the ones you do just... don't do anything really. the story is so surface level that you aren't able to care for either hero nor villains (who are complete jokes and caricatures). I even got angry at Poe, which I wasn't expecting at all.
I'm just very mad at this book, it felt like a waste of time. I can't think of anything particular that I liked.
darthkitty23's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0