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libkatem 's review for:
Leia: Princess of Alderaan
by Claudia Gray
My love for Leia Organa is well documented. And I really enjoyed Bloodline -- I even bought it! (I don't buy that many books anymore, it's library city for me.)
I'm probably not going to buy this one.
I enjoyed reading it, it was definitely a page turner. I liked Keir (until he unwittingly attempted to betray Leia, of course), it was cute to see her first bf. It was great to see some of my fave-star Senators (hello Mon Mothma, and you, Tynnra Pamlo). It was fun to (re)visit Crait and Pamarthe. The world-building on Alderaan was great.
I thought Amilyn Holdo felt like a diet-Luna Lovegood, which wasn't great. Also, Gray made Captain Quarsh Panaka a moff. This felt very contrived. Especially when Panaka seemed to recognize Padmé in Leia and as about to ...tell the Emperor? I guess? before he is assassinated, presumably by Saw Gerrera's insurgents.
But what really didn't ring true for me is the stilted relationship with Leia and her parents - I can't imagine that they wouldn't be preparing her to take on this fight, that the better way to protect her is to train her up, build up her defenses. It was put right by the end, but it would have been more interesting if they had looped her in earlier, and I think Leia would have had more agency.
So yeah, I enjoyed reading it. But I have spent a lot of time in my own headcanons (and my own fanfic) that my take on the Organas seems more real to me than a canon tie-in novel.
Ask me anything.
I'm probably not going to buy this one.
I enjoyed reading it, it was definitely a page turner. I liked Keir (until he unwittingly attempted to betray Leia, of course), it was cute to see her first bf. It was great to see some of my fave-star Senators (hello Mon Mothma, and you, Tynnra Pamlo). It was fun to (re)visit Crait and Pamarthe. The world-building on Alderaan was great.
I thought Amilyn Holdo felt like a diet-Luna Lovegood, which wasn't great. Also, Gray made Captain Quarsh Panaka a moff. This felt very contrived. Especially when Panaka seemed to recognize Padmé in Leia and as about to ...tell the Emperor? I guess? before he is assassinated, presumably by Saw Gerrera's insurgents.
But what really didn't ring true for me is the stilted relationship with Leia and her parents - I can't imagine that they wouldn't be preparing her to take on this fight, that the better way to protect her is to train her up, build up her defenses. It was put right by the end, but it would have been more interesting if they had looped her in earlier, and I think Leia would have had more agency.
So yeah, I enjoyed reading it. But I have spent a lot of time in my own headcanons (and my own fanfic) that my take on the Organas seems more real to me than a canon tie-in novel.
Ask me anything.