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I'm actually crying. This is EXACTLY the book I wanted, this is EXACTLY the book that every girl who first met Padme when they were 8, 10, 12 years old NEEDS because this book is EXACTLY what every girl who wanted to believe she belonged in Star Wars deserves. I was 6 when I saw aNH for the first time & asked my mom why Leia wasn't the main character. I was 10 when Padme walked on screen, into my heart because she WAS the main character, even when she wasn't. It was always about her. Everything
I really don't think it's too controversial to say that, even amidst a throng of other characters that got the short end of the stick, Padmé got the shortest short end of the stick in the prequels. The Clone Wars cartoon did give Padmé a bit more focus, but this is the first real canon material entirely about Padmé. And it came at the perfect time.Queen's Shadow is not an action-packed book. There are no fight scenes and only a few scenes that could be stretched into resembling mortal peril. It'...
This is the book I really wanted of the intelligent, clever, canny, caring and generally awesome Padmé Amidala and her equally amazing handmaidens. The woman presented within these pages is everything I knew she must have been, rather than the weepy, increasingly dimwitted creature whose brains leaked out her ears once she got together with Mannequin, and became only worse once pregnant (as if a pregnant woman can't function or think!) But then, movie Padme really just existed to support Mannequ...
This is the book I’ve been waiting twenty years for and I’m so happy with every page.
3 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/03/21/...I had high hopes for this first Star Wars new canon novel focusing entirely on Padmé/Queen Amidala, but unfortunately I was left a bit disappointed. On some level though, I think I had anticipated the issues, because from the moment I learned that Queen’s Shadow was to take place in the transitional time between the end of her reign as Naboo’s queen and the start of her career as a senator, I’d wondered whether there would...
“She hadn’t come all this way to be a line in the programming. She could do more than one thing, even if it meant going against the Chancellor’s implied wishes. She had, after all, only just begun.” When I started this book I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to find in it. A lot of Padmé Amidala. It certainly delivered in that. It was a fun enough story. It had it's moments that surprised me. Yet, there was a lot of little -and not so little - things that bothered me and made me not k
Disney: alright we let you write a book about Ahsoka now write one that's about someone from the original trilogy like Leia or-EKJ: did you ever hear the tragedy of Padmé Amidala and her handmaidens?Disney: . . .EKJ: it's not a tale Disney would tellDisney: . . .Disney: it's treason then
Handmaidens. Antislavery. Feminist. Same sex relationships. Real thought and detail about the functionality of Padme's wardrobe. Political intrigue. And only a little sprinkle of Jedi.I loved everything about this book.More Sabe, please. A sequel, maybe?
Saying Queen’s Shadow is boring would be the ultimate understatement of the year. Saying Queen’s Shadow is a good book that represents everything Padme fans have wanted for the last 20 years is a blatant lie.Yes, I hated this book. Take all the bad parts of the prequel trilogy (and there a lot of them), throw in a contrived plot in which nothing happens, make every single handmaiden confusing with names like Sabe, Sache, and Verse, give them no distinguishing characteristics, and then have liter...
I still have the paper dolls, uncut of course. I still stop to admire anyone dressed as Padme or one of her handmaidens at any con I go to. I don't care if you don't like the "prequels," I love them, and 90% of that love is because of Padme. The clothes! The hair! The intelligence and quiet strength! That is absolutely my jam. The sheer STYLE of those movies, and . . . I'm sorry, I know there's clickbait articles all across the internet about "co-stars without chemistry" or "who couldn't stand e...
Anyone who has read my reviews of other Star Wars related media probably knows that I really enjoy The Phantom Menace, it is my favourite of the Prequel Trilogy and I rate it higher than Return of the Jedi. With that in mind, I was really stoked when I heard about this novel - I wanted to hear more about some of the characters that we had only seen briefly on screen, and E.K. Johnston did great character work with Ahsoka. Therefore, I really thought I would like this book more than I did.First,
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FREAKING LOVED THIS! Some feel that Padme is young, annoying and naive. But i really think she's awesome and badass, i relate to her a great deal and i loved how i saw some character development and it felt like she trusted herself more and didn't rely too much on the handmaidens she'd had before. I can't wait til the next book about Padme comes out!
