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Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith Kindle Edition

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine’s forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace.

Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol. The disturbance in the Force is undeniable . . . and Luke’s worst fears are confirmed when his old friend Lando Calrissian comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace.

After Lando’s daughter was stolen from his arms, he searched the stars for any trace of his lost child. But every new rumor leads only to dead ends and fading hopes—until he crosses paths with Ochi of Bestoon, a Sith assassin tasked with kidnapping a young girl.

Ochi’s true motives remain shrouded to Luke and Lando. For on a junkyard moon, a mysterious envoy of the Sith Eternal has bequeathed a sacred blade to the assassin, promising that it will answer the questions that have haunted him since the Empire fell. In exchange, he must complete a final mission: Return to Exegol with the key to the Sith’s glorious rebirth—Rey, the granddaughter of Darth Sidious himself.

As Ochi hunts Rey and her parents to the edge of the galaxy, Luke and Lando race into the mystery of the Sith’s lingering shadow and aid a young family running for their lives.

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Adam Christopher is a novelist and comic writer. His debut novel, Empire State, was SciFiNow’s Book of the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2012. In 2013, he was nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent, with Empire State shortlisted for Best Novel. His other novels include The Age Atomic and The Burning Dark. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Chapter 1

WILD SPACE, COORDINATES UNKNOWN

NOW

At first, there was nothing but empty space. And then the ship appeared, mass and form and structure. Here to there, crossing boundless gulfs of space, as easy as pulling a lever. It was almost magical in its simplicity.

Right then, however, the ship’s overheating navicomputer begged to differ.

For a moment, the battered old freighter just floated, hanging in space, like a garu-bear coming out of a long hibernation, taking stock of its surroundings.

And then the ship shuddered and began listing to portside, carving a long, slow spiral that was suddenly accelerated as an aft impulse stabilizer failed in a shower of white sparks. The ship’s nose dipped even further, the starboard engine now sputtering, a loose cover plate revealing a dangerous red glow from beneath.

For the pilot and her two passengers, the situation had just gone from bad, to worse.

Two days. That was all they’d managed. Two days out from Jakku, limping along in a ship that shouldn’t be flying at all, but was the only hulk they’d managed to jack from Unkar Plutt’s scrapyard outside of Niima Outpost. And it didn’t look like they were going to make it much farther.

Just a few hours earlier, they dared to think that maybe . . . they’d made it? They’d gotten out of their homestead, their all-purpose house droid, handcrafted from more scrap and salvage, sacrificing itself as it led the hunters astray. Then they found the ship (truth be told, they had long ago earmarked it for such a day—a day they hoped would never come). Launched it, just themselves, a bag of toys and books and blankets, a handful of credits, the clothes on their backs. Pointed the navicomputer along a vector that would take them way out of range (so they hoped). And buckled in for the ride.

But now? The ship had barely survived the initial trip. Escaping to Wild Space had been a desperate move, but was far from the endgame. It was supposed to be where they could hide, just for a while, take the time to make a plan and plot a course.

Those options now seemed decidedly more limited as they floated adrift. They’d escaped Jakku, only to . . . what? Die in the cold reaches of space, the old freighter now nothing but a tomb for the three of them, lost forever on the outskirts of the galaxy, their passing unmourned, their names unremembered.

Dathan, Miramir.

Rey.

The freighter’s interior was as old and battered as the exterior—the flight deck was cramped and functional, the old-fashioned design requiring not just pilot and copilot but navigator, the third seat at the back of the cabin, facing away from the forward viewports. For this trip, they’d had to make do with a crew of just two.

The pilot’s seat was occupied by a young woman, her long blond hair corralled loosely with a blue tie that matched the color of her cloak, the sleeves of her cream tunic rolled up as she leaned over the control console in front of her, one hand gripping the uncooperative yoke, the other flying over buttons and switches as she fought to control the shuddering ship. The forward view, as seen through the angled, heavily scratched transparisteel viewport, showed the starscape ahead sliding diagonally as the freighter’s spin accelerated.

Behind her, a young man, his dark hair short, the beginnings of a beard over his jaw, knelt on the decking behind the navigator’s seat. His arms were wrapped around it and its small occupant, the child cradled in a padded nest formed out of a bright, multicolored blanket, a stark contrast with the drab, greasy gunmetal of the flight deck.

The man craned his neck around as he watched his wife wrestle with the controls, then he stood and leaned down to kiss the head of the six-year-old girl strapped securely in the seat, a large pair of navigator’s sound-deadening headphones over her ears. In front of the girl, the ancient navigation panel—a square matrix of hundreds of individual tiny square lights—flashed in multicolored patterns of moving shapes, a simple game the girl’s mother had loaded into the auxiliary computer to keep her daughter occupied on the long journey.

The man looked up at the game board, but the girl had stopped playing. He moved around to the front of the chair and saw she had her eyes screwed tightly shut. He leaned in, embracing his daughter.

“I’ve got you,” Dathan whispered to Rey. “We’re all right. I’ve got you.”

There was a bang; Dathan felt it as much as he heard it as another part of the strained engines gave up, the small explosion reverberating through the ship. A tear ran down from Rey’s closed eyes. Dathan wiped it away, and closed his own eyes, wishing that, for once, a little good luck would come their way.

“Okay, there we go!” Miramir yelled, following her statement with a whoop of triumph. The ship jolted once, and then the steady shaking stopped. Through the forward viewports, the stars were now completely still.

Despite himself, despite their situation, Dathan found himself smiling. He couldn’t help it. His wife was a genius and he loved her. He didn’t know where she got it from, but she was a natural, like it was genetic. She could fly anything, had been—and still was—a self-taught engineer and inventor. Tinkering, Miramir called it, as though it were nothing, as though she didn’t realize just how special her talents were. In the years that he had known her, Dathan had often asked where this gift had come from, but Miramir would just shrug and say her grandmother was a wonderful woman. Dathan knew that to be true—he had met her, several times, before Miramir gave up her life in the twilight forest of Hyperkarn to travel with Dathan. But then . . . where had her grandmother learned it all?

Dathan wanted to know, but over time he’d learned not to ask any further. Miramir missed her grandmother. She missed her home.

That was something else Dathan had tried to understand. To be homesick, to miss something that you could never return to—that was something unknown to him. Oh sure, he could understand it. And yes, he felt something for his days on Hyperkarn, even the years on Jakku, but he wasn’t sure it was the same. Neither of those places had been truly home.

He did have a home, a place he could legitimately say he came from. It was a place he revisited a lot, in dreams.

Dreams . . . and nightmares.

“That will hold for a while,” said Miramir, releasing the yoke and reaching up to flick a series of heavy switches in the angled panel above the pilot’s position. “I’ve rerouted reserve power into the starboard impulse stabilizer, and then pushed the angle of the field way beyond point-seven, but that’s fine because—”

She stopped as Dathan dropped into the copilot’s seat and looked at her, one eyebrow raised.

“I don’t know what any of that means,” he said, “except that we’re safe, right?”

Miramir sat back, her slight form dwarfed by the pilot’s seat. She grinned and nodded.

Dathan felt his own grin growing. Miramir’s happiness—her relief—was infectious. Maybe they would get out of this after all.

“The stabilizers will hold until the hyperdrive resets,” said Miramir. “The motivator overheats every time we make a jump, but it’s still working for the moment. We should be good for another couple of jumps.” She paused, then wrinkled her nose. “But we do need to find another ship. Which means . . .” She gestured at the viewports, to the infinite emptiness that was Wild Space.

Dathan nodded. “Which means heading back to the Outer Rim.”

At that, Miramir unclipped her seat restraints and headed over to Rey. Kneeling by the navigator’s seat, she gently lifted the headphones off her daughter’s head, then unclipped the seat restraints. As soon as she was freed, Rey sprang out of the seat and tackled her mother, arms and legs wrapped around Miramir, her head buried in her chest. Rey was perhaps small for a six-year-old, but Miramir didn’t mind her daughter’s desire for closeness, knowing the girl would soon grow out of it. Miramir turned and sank gently into the navigator’s seat, still cradling Rey, and kicked the seat around so she was facing Dathan.

“I know it’s dangerous,” said Miramir, “but this ship was in Plutt’s scrap heap for a reason. We’ve managed one long jump, and look what happened. It’ll be worse each time.”

Dathan sighed and gave his wife a nod. “We don’t have a choice,” he said. “I know.”

Miramir lowered her face to Rey’s hair, burying her nose in the brunette plait, her eyes focused somewhere on the floor.

Dathan knew that look. He’d seen it plenty of times over the last two days. It pained him to see Miramir like this. His wife, his love, the smartest and most beautiful and best person he had ever met. Certainly the most capable, far better at most things than he was, no matter how hard he tried.

And he knew something else, too.

This was all his fault. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09HJQG8L1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Worlds (June 28, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 492 pages

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New York Times Bestselling author Adam Christopher’s debut novel Empire State was SciFiNow’s Book of the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year.

The author of Made To Kill, Standard Hollywood Depravity and Killing Is My Business, Adam’s other novels include Seven Wonders, The Age Atomic and The Burning Dark.

Author of official tie-in novels for the Netflix phenomenon Stranger Things, the hit CBS television show Elementary and the award-winning Dishonored video game franchise, Adam is also the co-creator of the 21st century incarnation of Archie Comics superhero The Shield, and has contributed prose fiction to the world of Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s Lazarus series from Image Comics.

Adam is a contributor to the internationally bestselling Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View anniversary anthology series, and has written for the all-ages Star Wars Adventures comic from IDW. His debut Star Wars novel, Shadow of the Sith, was published in June 2022 and was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

Born in New Zealand, Adam has lived in Great Britain since 2006.

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C. Rea

An exciting Star Wars canon tale reminiscent of the best of Legends

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2022

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I have been reading a LOT of Star Wars since the pandemic started and this story has been one of my favorites. The author Adam Christopher has described it as Star Wars Episode 6.5 and this is appropriate given that it is set almost precisely mid-way on the timeline between ROTJ and TFA. I found it to be an excellent lead-in to the sequel trilogy and should satisfy many of the fans who felt that the ST (and in particular TROS) felt disconnected at times from the PT and the OT.

The author has done an excellent job telling a new and thrilling Star Wars story while being heavily constrained by the plot points of the ST. At no time while reading this book did I feel that my knowledge of how these characters' arcs would eventually end distracted from my enjoyment of the story itself. Quite the opposite, in fact. I found myself unable to put the book down as the story moved inexorably toward its powerful conclusion.

Adam Christopher does an admirable job of breathing life into characters and events that received little attention in the movies, while also giving us new insights into characters like Luke and Lando whose stories are so well-known to Star Wars fans. In addition to being a well-written and thrilling story for those who may only ever watch the movies, the book is chock full of lore, characters, and easter eggs that will satisfy even the most die-hard fan of alternate Star Wars media such as animation, books, comics, and Legends material.

I will leave any true criticisms of the book to actual literary reviewers. I am simply a fan of all things Star Wars and can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It is a fine addition to the canon and I recommend it for any and all fans of our favorite stories from a galaxy far, far away.

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So glad I read this

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023

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This was a great read to fill in a lot of blanks in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga. I feel better about Rey and her parents even though we already know her parents tragic end, but we have their names and the reason they left their daughter behind. And this is a side of Lando that you don't see often, so it was nice to give him some depth. I hate the unresolved story of his daughter, but I'm guessing she is the young stormtrooper deserter we meet on Endor. I was actually reading a Legends trilogy but it got tedious so I bought this one . So worth the swap! If page after page of descriptive narrative. But if you can get past that, you'll appreciate the story. I loved the brief but meaningful connect between luke and anakin skywalker and would love to see more of that because it will never get old.

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BEST STAR WARS BOOK IN A LOOONG TIME

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022

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Wow! This book was amazing. It reminded me of some of the best novels from Legends. Adam Christopher does an amazing job setting up the sequel trilogy and is almost a must-read if you want to truly enjoy TROS. The book is face paced, has great action, and brings back legacy characters. If you miss the books that told a fun story of Luke going on an adventure then this is the book for you. Most of the new Canon novels have seriously lacked good story telling. Instead they focus too much on random characters, side stories that don't matter, and a frustrating woke agenda. Thankfully this isn't the case with Shadow of the Sith. To date I have read every single Star Wars novel from Splinter of the minds Eye to Shadow of the Sith. It has been a long time since I really really enjoyed a Star Wars book. I hope this novel turns the tide and we start seeing better quality stories in the future. If you love Legends then get this book!!

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GauthicKnight

Terrific Read Full of Heart

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2023

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Another blockbuster Star Wars novel of the new era. Christopher’s SHADOW OF THE SITH touches on everything Star Wars fans love and brings so much heart and compassion to the adventure. I’d love to see a comic adaptation done of this because it’s so visual. That said, it’s a good read and a solid novel.

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Mark A. Bartels

Didn't love the writing style or story line

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024

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I'm an avid reader of Star Wars novels and this is really not a very good one in my opinion. The writing style is very poetic at times and hard to follow. On top of that, it tries to explain a very strange part of the Star Wars sequel timeline that I don't really care for. I just didn't love it.

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Adam Christopher did the impossible

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2022

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Prior to readying Shadow of the Sith, I categorized Rise of Skywalker not only the absolute worst Star Wars movie, but one of the worst movies of all time. I've seen the OT and PT hundreds of times yet could not make it through a second viewing of ROS after seeing it in the theatre. This book made that scatterbrained mess make so much more sense that I not only got through the movie again, but I actually liked it. The movie still has many, many problems but now they are no more than the other 2 Disney trilogy disappointments served up. Shame on Disney for requiring a fix like this, but a huge thanks and TON of credit to Adam Christopher for fixing the unfixable!

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MikeyBoy

Awesome

Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2023

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Intriguing story of who ochi of bestoon was and what his motivations were. An awesome addition to Star Wars canon, filling in gaps in the sequel trilogy. Highly recommend

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Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico on September 19, 2022

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Es una novela excelente, realiza la difícil tarea de "atar cabos" del episodio IX y al mismo tiempo darnos una nueva aventura, escribiendo a personajes establecidos y nuevos de una forma interesante y completa.

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The first time I watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker I had some complex thoughts. I came out of the cinema with a lot of the movie going around my head, trying to figure out whether I liked it or not. I ended up landing on hating it. My second watch through, many months later once I'd had a chance to think on it more I ended up disliking it. And when I watched it a few months ago, having read more of the comics and books that built the lore and story I ended up kind of enjoying it. There were still things I had issue with, but I'd stopped hating it at least.

When it was announced that there was going to be a novel coming out that would expand upon it further, that would feature Rey, her parents, Ochi of Bestoon, and Luke and Lando's briefly mentioned quest, I was actually really excited to get to read it; especially as I was hoping that it would further enhance my The Rise of Skywalker experiences.

The plot of Shadow of the Sith follows several figures as events across the galaxy start to bring them together. The main focus, and the character we spend the most time with, is Lando. If you're a fan of Star Wars you know who Lando is, and he'll need little introduction. And you'll be pleased to see that the charming, smooth talking scoundrel is represented well in this book. The first time we meet him he's in a card game in a dangerous bar, trying to charm his way out of a dangerous situation. He's the Lando we all love. However, there's more to this Lando than any other time we've seen him.

Six years before the events of this book Lando's daughter, Kadara, was kidnapped. Lando has spent the years since searching the galaxy for any sign of her. This has changed Lando. Whilst he might still be the Lando you expect on the surface, underneath it he's a man with emotional scars, with a grief that no one should ever have to carry. As such, when he hears a group of unsavoury folks discussing kidnapping a child, and they mention the Sith, it's something he has to do something about, a family he has to help; because he can't bear for another family to go through the pain he has.

Those unsavoury sort are a mixture of criminals, scum, and evil droids, all led by Ochi of Bestoon. Ochi made a brief appearance in The Rise of Skywalker, looking particularly horrific in live action, and has become a recurring character in the current Darth Vader comics. As someone who's seen more of Ochi it's interesting to see him here, long after the fall of the Empire, when he's become something of a washed-out drunk. He's still incredibly dangerous, and some of the scenes with him in it are incredibly tense and scary, but he's also kind of broken now too; and it's an interesting situation to see him in.

Another main character is, of course, Luke Skywalker. This is a Luke probably at the height of his glory. He's a Jedi Master, the galaxy knows who he is, he has his school of Ossum, he's training his nephew to be a Jedi. This is Luke before he makes his mistake and loses everything. I think this is the Luke that a lot of people will want to see, especially if they were unhappy with never seeing this version of him on the big screen. This is a Luke who's very confident, who never seems to be worried or afraid, who has faith in the Force and believes that things happening around him are doing so for a good reason, and that he will get through it okay.

There's also a small family that we follow, a group around who all this focuses. Dathan, Miramir, and Rey. This book gives us the biggest insight into Rey's past that we've ever had, and provides some important information on Exegol, the Sith Eternal, and Rey's heritage. One of the things that I didn't like when first watching The Rise of Skywalker was the idea that Palpatine had had a child. The idea that he'd have had sex just felt kind of weird and wrong to me. Since then, and with this book, we've had it confirmed that Dathan is a clone of the Emperor, though one altered slightly. This plays a part in Palpatine's experiments to live on after death, and feels much more like the Emperor. Through the flashbacks in this book we get to see some of Dathan growing up on the Sith planet, as well as his escape. Some of these flashbacks also seem to coincide with events from the Darth Vader comic, and adds some extra details there that's cool for fans.

In the sequel trilogy Rey's parents are an idea. They're something that she's searching for, a belonging that she desperately needs. Even when we get told who they were, we spend barely more than seconds with them, seeing their eventual fate at the hands of Ochi of Bestoon. This book actually allows us to get to know them a little, so see them as people; and it's really nice. We don't really get any down time with them, they're constantly on the run, fighting to stay ahead of their hunters, but even in these moments they take the time to care for Rey, to make sure she's happy and has fun. They're good parents, and the scene where they hide Rey on Jakuu and say goodbye to her is a hard read because we've come to really care for the family at that point. Their eventual death also becomes an awful moment, and as soon as I knew it was coming my heart broke. There was no way that they were making it out of this story alive, we'd already been told that, but I wanted that to change, for something to alter it at the last minute because I'd come to care for them.

And their death, as awful as it is, is not the worst thing about this book. It's the fact that our heroes fail. Again, something we know before even picking up this book. We know from the events of the films that Luke and Lando can't save this family, that they don't find Rey and keep her safe. But even knowing this doesn't prepare you for how the book handles it, and the scene where Lando realises he's failed this family was so awful to read. I cried for him, I cried for this usually happy, charming, and carefree man because the weight of the galaxy came crashing down on him, the pain of losing his daughter came back, and he felt responsible for what happened to this family. Shadow of the Sith might be the best Lando story I've experienced, because it did something I never expected, it made me cry for Lando.

The book deals with more than just Rey's family, however, and also features a powerful Sith spirit hunting for Luke and the artefacts in his possession; the masked figure on the cover of the book. For those that have read the Aftermath trilogy, this person will be familiar, and it's great to see her story continue on here. It gives Luke a powerful enemy to face, and a confrontation with the Sith that doesn't need the involvement of the hidden cult on Exogol, or the clone Emperor. It allows those plot threads to stay hidden away; though Luke does learn of the planet's existence. The confrontations between Luke and this figure are great, and the final fight between them happens on one of the more unique locations I've seen in Star Wars, and does some shocking, unexpected things.

There are also a lot of nods and winks to other parts of the universe that I absolutely adored here, but as there are some spoilers skip to the next paragraph if you don't want to see them. Lando gets to fly around in the Lady Luck, his ship that made its first canon appearance in Last Shot, but was a part of the old Legends canon. Shriv from Battlefront II makes an appearance, which was great as I'd recently re-played through the story. Enric Pryde from The Rise of Skywalker appears, wearing a particularly horrific coat. Lor San Tekka helps Luke out. Lina Graf from the Wild Space books and Star Wars Adventures gets name dropped, and Luke gets to borrow her ship. There are some Lasat knocking around. Ben Solo pops in for a bit. We get to see Unkar Plutt. Luke visits Tython and uses the same seeing stone Grogu used in The Mandalorian. There's a reference to purifying kyber crystals to make them white like in the Ahsoka novel. And most shocking and surprising for all, Luke gets to talk to Anakins Force ghost. There are so many connections to the bigger universe, so many off hand mentions, small inclusions, and tiny background details that Shadow of the Sith ends up feeling like it's this key piece connecting so many strands together.

I had heard from those who'd read the book already that Shadow of the Sith was a good book, that it was one of, if not the best new canon novel. I went in with high expectations for the book. And not only did it meet each and every one, it more often than not exceeded them. I came away with a bigger understanding of certain character and events, I ended up caring for people that meant little to me before it, and I had so many moments where I was smiling at the tiny details, where my mouth was hanging open from the surprises, or where I was openly crying. This is absolutely one of the best Star Wars books I've ever read, and it should be on every fans 'to read' list.

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barofett

Una lettura necessaria

Reviewed in Italy on October 27, 2022

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Forse uno dei miei romanzi Canon preferiti, Shadows of the Sith affronta alcuni aspetti di episodio IX che il film (purtroppo) non ha reso così chiari, soprattutto riguardo ai genitori di Rey, che finalmente diventano dei personaggi ben caratterizzati, e Ochi, che era già diventato un pg iconico nella serie di Vader del 2020 e che qui continua la sua storia, fino alla sua ingloriosa fine. Una delle trame del romanzo sengue un Luke in splendida forma mentre affronta un villain inedito veramente interessante, trama che ha alcuni momenti altissimi. Molto consigliato per chi ama il canone di Star Wars e vuole un romanzo che abbia effettivamente un peso all'interno degli eventi principali

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Incredible book

Reviewed in Australia on January 18, 2024

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Great characters, interesting villains, some really exciting moments, good story. 10/10

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