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A review by justplainbecca
From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer
4.0
Like any short story collection, this one has its peaks and valleys and I was feeling a solid 3 stars for most of it, but you know what? It ends on a high note and I like the overall conceit (stories of background characters set during the events of Episode IV), structure, and tone, so 4 stars it is. This collection is closer in tone to Rogue One than Return of the Jedi. Several of the stories are about Alderaan, for example. I don't ever feel, when watching A New Hope, that I really get the emotional impact of the DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE PLANET, but you sure do get that poignancy here. It's often a very sad, but ultimately hopeful (see what I did there?) book.
Some favorites: The Sith of Datawork by Ken Liu (ah, bureaucracy); Not for Nothing by Mur Lafferty; Born in the Storm by Daniel Jose Older; Laina by Wil Wheaton (possibly the saddest freaking one of the bunch); The Trigger by Kieron Gillen; The Angle by Charles Soule (She-Hulk writer does Landon Calrissian--there was basically no way I wouldn't like this one); and Whills by Tom Angleberger.
Some favorites: The Sith of Datawork by Ken Liu (ah, bureaucracy); Not for Nothing by Mur Lafferty; Born in the Storm by Daniel Jose Older; Laina by Wil Wheaton (possibly the saddest freaking one of the bunch); The Trigger by Kieron Gillen; The Angle by Charles Soule (She-Hulk writer does Landon Calrissian--there was basically no way I wouldn't like this one); and Whills by Tom Angleberger.