A review by fdr_girl
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Alexander Freed

5.0

Her fire shone bright ✨

Star Wars has always been special to me; Princess Leia was one of my heroes growing up, and then Padmé, then Rey. Ladies of the resistance who fought for what’s right and what’s good and what they believe in. That’s who I wanted to be.

Then Jyn Erso came along and she was haunted and hurting and harsh and she wasn’t bright like my other heroes, she didn’t believe in the cause and she’d been broken by everything around her. Jyn grew up in a war zone and her life was controlled by others but she was bold and she let herself feel again and she opened up the cave inside her heart to find herself.

Jyn Erso saved the galaxy. She realised that rebellions are built on hope, that she wasn’t just a survivor or a broken child left in the wake of a war, she was fire; unstoppable and burning. Jyn Erso saves the galaxy and her fire shone bright.