preciouslittleingenue 's review for:

Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I echo everyone that said this was an excellent portrayal of a younger version of a character beloved by so many (especially by me). I hope and pray they use this for movie/series material someday. Truly my only complaint is that the recent Kenobi series renders the tiniest bits of this a bit wacky, lines like “this is the most danger I’ve ever been in in my life” and “my parents have never been this scared”…. Well, I’d argue now that you were kidnapped as a ten year old, Leia, that’s not true lol. But I recognize the universe is always expanding detail by detail. A small tiny rewrite that adjusts for these things would be cool as hell. A few mentions of that as an example of the horror of the empire, or even an acknowledgement that Leia had seen the Force at work, or had asked someone (Obi Wan) about her birth parents before (since Panaka brings it up)…things like that. It felt missing because of the series. But not egregiously so. Again, thats what happens. And speaking of the Force! I am such a whore for young Leia using the Force before she knows what it is/knows she has it and I GOT THAT IN THIS BOOK!!! Fangirled so hard. I loved this very much. Onto Princess and the Scoundrel😍😍

Edit a few minutes later: Kier was great and all, but I’d have cared so much more if Leia’s teenage romance was a girl/femme-presenting person. Leia is canonically bisexual at least to me. And to me, the Star Wars universe would just have queerness be normalized, so it would’ve been just as normal for her parents to tease her about “choosing wisely” for a girl as it was for a guy. Getting some canon rep like that would’ve been so sick. But the incels  would’ve had a field day, so I get it. I can dream though. Instead, I’ll just say that she and Amilyn had a thing once her grief for Kier wasn’t so accute😌 people headcanoned that after TLJ anyway right?