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A review by kcdayton
Bloodline by Claudia Gray
4.0
This book is tagged as "In the Years Before STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS" and it's easy to see why, as much of the politics that's usually present in the SW movies was missing from TFA. This (canon) book fills in a lot of the gaps leading up to the battles between the Resistance and The First Order.
Our POV character is mostly Princess/Senator Leia, and the story is called Bloodline because (and I don't think this is a spoiler, because of the front cover image and the blurb) Leia's birth parentage comes to light and people are idiots, as usual.
I liked that the story talked about Leia's relationship with both her birth father and her adoptive father (Bail Organa), but as is usual with SW stories, Leia's mothers are only briefly talked about. (Padmé is mentioned a few times here and there, but Breha is only mentioned in passing.)
There's a lot of backshadowing (? maybe parallelism would be a better word here) between this book and what happens in the prequel SW movies, which is frankly terrifying.
(There's also several references to Leia killing Jabba, with a character referring to her as "Hutt Slayer" instead of "Princess" or "Senator", which was profoundly fulfilling.)
Perhaps my least favorite part of the book was all the references Leia made to future plans she wanted to pursue with Han. :/
Overall, I found this book extremely entertaining: the narrator, January LaVoy, is great at creating different voices/styles of speech; and it's an official novel, which means that SW music is used here and there for added style. Highly recommended to older fans of Star Wars who want to learn more about Leia and The First Order.
Our POV character is mostly Princess/Senator Leia, and the story is called Bloodline because (and I don't think this is a spoiler, because of the front cover image and the blurb) Leia's birth parentage comes to light and people are idiots, as usual.
I liked that the story talked about Leia's relationship with both her birth father and her adoptive father (Bail Organa), but as is usual with SW stories, Leia's mothers are only briefly talked about. (Padmé is mentioned a few times here and there, but Breha is only mentioned in passing.)
There's a lot of backshadowing (? maybe parallelism would be a better word here) between this book and what happens in the prequel SW movies, which is frankly terrifying.
(There's also several references to Leia killing Jabba, with a character referring to her as "Hutt Slayer" instead of "Princess" or "Senator", which was profoundly fulfilling.)
Perhaps my least favorite part of the book was all the references Leia made to future plans she wanted to pursue with Han. :/
Overall, I found this book extremely entertaining: the narrator, January LaVoy, is great at creating different voices/styles of speech; and it's an official novel, which means that SW music is used here and there for added style. Highly recommended to older fans of Star Wars who want to learn more about Leia and The First Order.