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A review by capturedinwords
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer
3.0
My video review: https://youtu.be/7GpfnIaXnjs
2.5 star-ish
From a Certain Point of View is an interesting anthology. The stories act as a behind the scenes look at events in A New Hope from the perspective of 40 side characters. Some of these characters are completely unexpected. Take for instance, characters like: R5-D2 (the red droid sold with R2-D2 by Jawas), a female Tusken raider, MSE-6-G735Y (a mouse droid), or heck, even the trash compactor monster (btw her name is Omi). Of course there is also some more familiar faces, the story about force-ghost Qui-Gon Jinn (by Claudia Grey) being a favorite of mine.
While these all might sound interesting and fun, I still had many issues with this anthology. There is a clear issue of quality with MANY of these stories. There's a few gems, but the majority of them feel amateur and I would even say boring.
Thankfully the thing that kept me interested was that the stories would occasionally slip in some answers to long-unanswered questions that the fans of had relating to A New Hope. This, and the fact that all the profits go to charity are the only reasons I would recommend it. Otherwise, I feel like it just missed the mark on what could have been quite promising.
I listened to the audio book version, which has a great cast of actors such as Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, and Ashley Eckstein to name a few.
2.5 star-ish
From a Certain Point of View is an interesting anthology. The stories act as a behind the scenes look at events in A New Hope from the perspective of 40 side characters. Some of these characters are completely unexpected. Take for instance, characters like: R5-D2 (the red droid sold with R2-D2 by Jawas), a female Tusken raider, MSE-6-G735Y (a mouse droid), or heck, even the trash compactor monster (btw her name is Omi). Of course there is also some more familiar faces, the story about force-ghost Qui-Gon Jinn (by Claudia Grey) being a favorite of mine.
While these all might sound interesting and fun, I still had many issues with this anthology. There is a clear issue of quality with MANY of these stories. There's a few gems, but the majority of them feel amateur and I would even say boring.
Thankfully the thing that kept me interested was that the stories would occasionally slip in some answers to long-unanswered questions that the fans of had relating to A New Hope. This, and the fact that all the profits go to charity are the only reasons I would recommend it. Otherwise, I feel like it just missed the mark on what could have been quite promising.
I listened to the audio book version, which has a great cast of actors such as Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, and Ashley Eckstein to name a few.