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jonathan_lee_b's review against another edition
5.0
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is a piñata full of kaleidoscopes.
sunflowerhexe's review
4.0
Look, it’s cheesy, chaotic, messy, and more than once heart wrenching. Just how I like my star wars!
jediprincess's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
They spent waaaay too long on stories surrounding the cantina, but otherwise was great! Standout stories were: Laina, Eclipse, The Trigger, The Baptist, There Is Another, and Grounded!
czargasm's review
3.0
Meh. This suffers from the same problem of any large anthology--some of the stories are really good, but most range from just ok to mediocre. There were some stories that I absolutely loved: The Sith of Datawork, Eclipse, Time of Death, and The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper, to name a few. But most I felt very apathetic about. I don't think any of them were bad... just that they were too repetitive, overlapped too much with other stories, or didn't have something to make them interesting. This is still a worthwhile book, but probably something to pick and choose from, rather than to read straight through.
ibumble's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
meromenesko's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
sbauer378's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
annniina98's review against another edition
3.0
As ever, some are great, some not so much. Many were made worse by being the same scene from the fifth POV in a row. There are only so many times one can read a scene and still find it interesting.
thinkingcatss's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mpetruce's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
2.0
This is OK, I guess, well written by top writers and the narrators are more or less an all-star cast, but the stories themselves are so zeroed in on the shortest of times and moments from the original SW film (which is the point, I know) that it feels really forced and, in some cases, just a vehicle for ultra-fans to hear lines they know all too well just repeated verbatim (eg, "If this is a counselor ship, where is the ambassador?" doesn't really get much more emotional weight as heard by Capt. Antilles as Vader is crushing his windpipe, which, you'd think that would be the whole point of having the story in the first place).