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A review by goodverbsonly
The Battle of Jedha by George Mann
3.0
i got nothin. i'm doing the high republic in kaleidoscope* fashion, and it's going...eh.
1) in Phase I I've read three books (LotJ, ItD, OotS), but ItD includes flashbacks to 25 years prior which is about ~75 years after this book takes place and Eiram E'ronoh are STILL in conflict, so no surprises that this did not get resolved in this book.
2) fundamentally the high republic books seem to be about the conflict between two hyperspace prospecting families so it's fundamentally a Mob Story. I know this because I just finished Out of the Shadows. This is an insANE way to structure a bunch of books that are supposedly Interconnected but independent. Yeah sure.
3) maybe I only liked the only Phase II book I've read because I liked the Jedi in it so much. No I don't think so, I liked the Jedi in this one too, but there are so many characters that even with the full cast I can't keep it or all the moving parts straight.
Overall strengths: more or less easy to follow, exciting, nice cast of characters, interesting conflict (three layers of conflict on the larger narrative level of the whole series which is the Graffs (sp?) vs the Santeckas (sp?) family mob conflict for control over the hyperspace lanes in the frontier (CLASSIC); religious conflict mostly between the Jedi (ambivalent) and the Path of the Open Hand (serious) and how the Force works (exciting); whatever the hell is going on between Eiram and E'ronoh, a lonnngg interplanetary conflict, that all layers on top of each other. Personally I do prefer a smaller cast, just to get a little bit closer to each character, but alas, I get allll these characters.
*kaleidoscope as in that netflix show about the heist that you could supposedly watch in any order. lol
1) in Phase I I've read three books (LotJ, ItD, OotS), but ItD includes flashbacks to 25 years prior which is about ~75 years after this book takes place and Eiram E'ronoh are STILL in conflict, so no surprises that this did not get resolved in this book.
2) fundamentally the high republic books seem to be about the conflict between two hyperspace prospecting families so it's fundamentally a Mob Story. I know this because I just finished Out of the Shadows. This is an insANE way to structure a bunch of books that are supposedly Interconnected but independent. Yeah sure.
3) maybe I only liked the only Phase II book I've read because I liked the Jedi in it so much. No I don't think so, I liked the Jedi in this one too, but there are so many characters that even with the full cast I can't keep it or all the moving parts straight.
Overall strengths: more or less easy to follow, exciting, nice cast of characters, interesting conflict (three layers of conflict on the larger narrative level of the whole series which is the Graffs (sp?) vs the Santeckas (sp?) family mob conflict for control over the hyperspace lanes in the frontier (CLASSIC); religious conflict mostly between the Jedi (ambivalent) and the Path of the Open Hand (serious) and how the Force works (exciting); whatever the hell is going on between Eiram and E'ronoh, a lonnngg interplanetary conflict, that all layers on top of each other. Personally I do prefer a smaller cast, just to get a little bit closer to each character, but alas, I get allll these characters.
*kaleidoscope as in that netflix show about the heist that you could supposedly watch in any order. lol