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A review by horoxv
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno
3.0
Great prequel novel to Rogue One the movie. James Luceno is a master at writing in the star wars universe.
My rating of 4/5 stars is solely for two reasons. The writing and characters. The story itself is all but assumed and known by everyone. We all know what happens. The death star was built and though this book points out some small details and the leading up to it, I felt that it was unecessary. Some of these new Canon novels just feel entirely filler. I understand there are small stories that need to be told but honestly they are nothing compared to the old EU where each story was jam packed with adventure.
I don't know. I do love the new canon. Lots of the books are great, but the problem is that Disney is focusing on the new trilogy and doesn't want to reveal anything there until the movies are done, so lots of what we will get WILL be filler/etc until then.
Oh man I hope Thrawn is an amazing book.
Anyways, the characters and relationships were top notch. This made me feel so much for Galen, Lyra, Jyn, even dislike Orson Krennic so much more when I saw Rogue One. It does it's job well, but outside of leading up to rogue one, I don't know if it had much point.
My rating of 4/5 stars is solely for two reasons. The writing and characters. The story itself is all but assumed and known by everyone. We all know what happens. The death star was built and though this book points out some small details and the leading up to it, I felt that it was unecessary. Some of these new Canon novels just feel entirely filler. I understand there are small stories that need to be told but honestly they are nothing compared to the old EU where each story was jam packed with adventure.
I don't know. I do love the new canon. Lots of the books are great, but the problem is that Disney is focusing on the new trilogy and doesn't want to reveal anything there until the movies are done, so lots of what we will get WILL be filler/etc until then.
Oh man I hope Thrawn is an amazing book.
Anyways, the characters and relationships were top notch. This made me feel so much for Galen, Lyra, Jyn, even dislike Orson Krennic so much more when I saw Rogue One. It does it's job well, but outside of leading up to rogue one, I don't know if it had much point.