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Star Wars: Before the Awakening
by Greg Rucka
STAR WARS!
This is a really quick, fun little book, consisting of three self-contained short stories each following one of the three new leads in the run-up to The Force Awakens...
Finn: Or FN-2187 as he is at the time, this was my least favourite of the three but still pretty interesting, showing him starting to question everything he thought he knew as his stormtrooper training comes to an end. It definitely left me wondering who was behind the helmet of the stormtrooper who left the bloody hand-print on Finn, or the one who called him a traitor.
Rey: I really liked this middle story, Rey struggling through her harsh life on Jakku, scavenging and passing the time with a flight-simulator, until she makes a potentially highly profitable discovery. This one had a great atmosphere to it, you could almost feel the heat and the sand and the grime, and it was nice to see a bit more of Rey being generally awesome and adorable, and though I totally knew how the story was going to end it was still a bit of a gut-punch.
Poe: I liked Poe in the movie but didn't get enough of him to really consider him a favourite or anything so it was especially nice to see a little more of him. This story follows him joining up with the Resistance, and the mission that leads to him being sent to Jakku. And it was great, action-packed and exciting but also intimate and really interesting. We got a nice bit of backstory about Poe's parents, and a little more information on how the dynamic between the Republic, the First Order, and the Resistance works. There were a few nice little tidbits about the greater universe too, I especially liked the notion of the "victory kids", conceived in the days after the Empire fell. And of course we had an appearance from Leia which I am all for, she is as fabulous as ever. This was my favourite part of the book and it's worth reading for this story alone.
This is a really quick, fun little book, consisting of three self-contained short stories each following one of the three new leads in the run-up to The Force Awakens...
Finn: Or FN-2187 as he is at the time, this was my least favourite of the three but still pretty interesting, showing him starting to question everything he thought he knew as his stormtrooper training comes to an end. It definitely left me wondering who was behind the helmet of the stormtrooper who left the bloody hand-print on Finn, or the one who called him a traitor.
Rey: I really liked this middle story, Rey struggling through her harsh life on Jakku, scavenging and passing the time with a flight-simulator, until she makes a potentially highly profitable discovery. This one had a great atmosphere to it, you could almost feel the heat and the sand and the grime, and it was nice to see a bit more of Rey being generally awesome and adorable, and though I totally knew how the story was going to end it was still a bit of a gut-punch.
Poe: I liked Poe in the movie but didn't get enough of him to really consider him a favourite or anything so it was especially nice to see a little more of him. This story follows him joining up with the Resistance, and the mission that leads to him being sent to Jakku. And it was great, action-packed and exciting but also intimate and really interesting. We got a nice bit of backstory about Poe's parents, and a little more information on how the dynamic between the Republic, the First Order, and the Resistance works. There were a few nice little tidbits about the greater universe too, I especially liked the notion of the "victory kids", conceived in the days after the Empire fell. And of course we had an appearance from Leia which I am all for, she is as fabulous as ever. This was my favourite part of the book and it's worth reading for this story alone.