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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
This was incredibly slow read for me. Only the last 1/3 kept me going. I almost quit several times. Good backstory but it was hard to get into. Patting myself on the back for actually finishing it.
dark
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
James Luceno does not seem to know how to write action. I say this because in the two books I've read of his (both based in the Star Wars universe) have decided lacked any real action. He often tells instead of shows, and many of the action scenes that takes place in this book (and other's he's written) are "off camera" so to speak. We are told what happens after the fact instead of getting to witness it.
This book is slow. Slow and kind of pointless. Sure it gives some backgrounds to a few characters in Rogue One but not much. All of the real characterization that you leave the book with could have been contained in 150 pages or less. Sure you get more Krennic, which is nice, and a bit more of Tarkin. But the main characters? Galen is stiff and one-dimensional, Lyra is a little more fleshed out, but seems like a plot device more than a character and Jyn is a baby/toddler/small child throughout the book, so plays no real role, other than the typical plot device of being the hero's child, and thus making Galen vulnerable to threats against her.
Again, the book could have been basically just as effective in 150 pages, and I'm only giving this two-stars instead of one because the audio book has cool sounds and music tracks to back up the otherwise mediocre writing.
This book is slow. Slow and kind of pointless. Sure it gives some backgrounds to a few characters in Rogue One but not much. All of the real characterization that you leave the book with could have been contained in 150 pages or less. Sure you get more Krennic, which is nice, and a bit more of Tarkin. But the main characters? Galen is stiff and one-dimensional, Lyra is a little more fleshed out, but seems like a plot device more than a character and Jyn is a baby/toddler/small child throughout the book, so plays no real role, other than the typical plot device of being the hero's child, and thus making Galen vulnerable to threats against her.
Again, the book could have been basically just as effective in 150 pages, and I'm only giving this two-stars instead of one because the audio book has cool sounds and music tracks to back up the otherwise mediocre writing.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read this quite a while back, and I’m surprised that Teenage Me liked it so much.
There was a lot of technical and sciencey-sounding language starting right away at the beginning. The plot feels less like one continuing story and more like smaller interconnected events happening over a rather large stretch of time.
We follow the Erso family through many years as well as Orson Krennic and the Death Star project.
With the new season of Andor, I wanted to read this book again, as it also chronicles some events leading up to Rogue One.
It was an interesting book, but not one of my favorites.
There was a lot of technical and sciencey-sounding language starting right away at the beginning. The plot feels less like one continuing story and more like smaller interconnected events happening over a rather large stretch of time.
We follow the Erso family through many years as well as Orson Krennic and the Death Star project.
With the new season of Andor, I wanted to read this book again, as it also chronicles some events leading up to Rogue One.
It was an interesting book, but not one of my favorites.
DNF 80% No pasa nada relevante,aporta super poco porque esta hecho para no spoilear la peli. Jyn is a fetus xD. Lo mejor es su madre Lyra que es Force Sensitive y unos cristales locos que aparecen pero nada más.
Es demasiado introductorio y se centra en el papi de Jyn que es un científico que reclutan para construir el Castillo soñado de Vader xD.
Es demasiado introductorio y se centra en el papi de Jyn que es un científico que reclutan para construir el Castillo soñado de Vader xD.
I picked this book up because I was eager to have some backstory on the characters in Rogue One before watching it and also because I enjoyed James Luceno's Tarkin. As such, I am not sure how much the book stands up if read in isolation, or how far it develops the characters beyond what you may have already seen in the film. With that said, I really enjoyed it - I like the Star Wars stories that have a hefty dose of political thriller to them, and I also found that when I came to watch Rogue One, the back story resonated really well with what was on screen.
Listened to the audiobook, narrated by by Jonathan Davis.
I'm rarely without a Star Wars novel on the go, and its nice to be able to pick up a book which plonks you back down into a galaxy far, far away, which James Luceno manages to do almost perfectly here. Giving a backstory to events we see taking place in "Rogue One" the film, it's always hard to maintain audience interest when you already know the outcome of a story arc, and my only criticism here is that the critical moment, the Erso's escaping Krennic, takes place with little dramatic flair or much of a description. The real heroine of the story is Lyra, and there is one other character, Has Obit, who is given a full character arc here and that I hope we see and hear more about in Disney's new canon. This book feels enough like the "Rogue One" film to be enjoyable, and without treading on any areas that impinge on future storylines. A pleasant enough diversion within the Star Wars expanded universe.
adventurous
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No