A review by thingslucyreads
The Force Awakens - Rey's Story by Brian Rood, Elizabeth Schaefer

4.0

This was good, but not quite as good as the Finn one. Some things happened differently than they did in the film, which more often than not changed the tone of those scenes. In places Finn's characterisation didn't feel quite right and in general the book felt rushed, like the required word count wasn't quite enough to do the story justice. And finally, Rey does not meet Poe in this, which is something that does canonically happen despite not being shown in the film, and frankly that was a huge disappointment because I was looking forward to seeing how that was handled. But I'm mostly taking it in the spirit it was intended, which is just a simplified retelling of Rey's part in The Force Awakens.