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This book was awesome and adding it to my buy list!! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
... the Coruscant skyline always felt like the Republic in miniature. Always moving, always changing and evolving, endlessly deep and strange and infinite. At that moment, the sun was setting, and the lights were coming up on the buildings. Stars in the heavens. Worlds in the Republic.I really, really wanted to like this book. But ultimately it was a frustrating and disappointing read. Like the spore drive in Star Trek: Discovery, Charles Soule opts for a ‘magic reset button’ in the form of the
TL;DR: This is a completely meaningless story that is ultimately about no one. It's a book written by committee and it shows in all the worst ways. There are WAY too many characters. All of them are abysmally dull, and so underdeveloped that I could not name a single one of them to save my life right now without opening the book to find names. A character died and I could not remember which character the name even belonged to. The book has no central character or villain and desperately feels th...
WE ARE ALL THE REPUBLICCharles Soule first came to prominence as a comics writer, including some Star Wars titles such as the extremely well received Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith series but, as proven by his excellent The Oracle Year, prose novels are equally within his wheelhouse.As the leadoff (adult) novel of Lucasfilm's High Republic publishing initiative he had a lot of responsibility with this one, both to the readers and his fellow Project Luminous authors, and he delive...
Light of the Jedi is the first book set in the High Republic era, 200 years before The Phantom Menace. The Republic is in a state of peace, so much so that it doesn't even have its own military fleet. They are establishing Starlight Beacon in the Outer Rim as a way to connecting with the systems out there. When a tragedy happens to a ship in hyperspace it sets off a series of events that could threaten the whole galaxy. I loved all the focus on all of the Jedi at their peak and the sense of hope...
A good start to the new era of the Star Wars. A lot of new characters, old worlds but in a new setting. I did find the book a bit slow, but that is understandable as they are creating a new world.The Republic is expanding into the Outer Rim, however not everyone is happy the Republic is coming.I do like that fact though there are a lot more Jedi they all have there one fears, wants and desires. This is a great introduction to the Jedi embarking on a new frontier.Only one thing I did not like abo...
Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, was written by Charles Soule. He's written stories for the Star Wars Comics, and he's written his first Star Wars Novel.This novel kicks off a brand new era in Star Wars canon, going back 200 years before the events of the Skywalker Saga.SUMMARY: The galaxy is peaceful, war is a thing of the past. The Republic is strong. The Chancellor, Lina Soh coined the phrase, "We are all the Republic." Peace is tested when an unforeseen event that stems from
4.75 stars. “We’re all the Republic.” Writing this review is somehow hard because I have so many feelings about it all that not sound like a mess is not gonna be easy. So bear with me. I've been a fan of Star Wars for as long as I can remember. I've been a huge fan for years. I've read a couple of the books centered on this universe and liked them well enough. In all that time, I had never encountered a book that enamored me and made me feel so immersed in the world as Light of the Je
This was a book I approached with great enthusiasm. A new era in Star Wars with substantial free reign to decide what galaxy-spanning adventures to tell. A Republic before the dark times, before corruption and evil reduced it to a shadow of what it once was. A Jedi Order devoid of their self-serving involvement in politics. It’s an idea with potential, and Lucasfilm certainly thought so because they created a series from it. Starting with this one.Sad to say this is not a great start to a new se...
EDIT: guess what?! I've read it and I still rate it 5 stars so ya'll can stay mad about it.
4.5/5 I was about to give this book 4 stars, but then the epilogue came along and hit me like a truck.Charles Soule just KNOWS how to use words, every comment is thoughtfully placed, no description is ever too much. And don't get me started on the metaphors. So beautiful.Light of the Jedi introduces around 20 new characters which is honestly a little intimidating at first. Yet, somehow, Soule pulls it off and makes every one of those characters unique in their own way. The action pulls you right...
This is the beginning of a series as the Disney Star Wars tackles the Old Republic era. In this one, there is an accident where a ship blows apart while in hyperspace. Parts of this ship enter different star systems and are a threat to planets. The Jedi respond.I did not enjoy this book like many of my Goodreads friends and members of this site. First off I really like the concept of the story. What happens when something goes wrong in a hyperspace lane? And I liked how the Jedi as one respond t...
I enjoyed reading this one (have the audiobook also) and it kept me up late into the night to finish. It's Star Wars so a well-known universe for me and with just enough new characters and locales to keep me interested. A terrifically easy read. I was surprised (but likely shouldn't have been) that I was so invested in the characters that whether they were of the Republic or Nihil, I cared when any of them met their end. My favourite characters were Captain Bright, Master Te'Ami, Kassav, Marchio...
I literary cannot believe that LucasFilm's strategy to save the franchise that they screwed up (even with the hundreds of million of dollars they had) is to hire a bunch of random unknown authors who I have never heard of before to write books so they can see which characters resonate and then adapt those characters to the big screen. So that if those films are bad they can-what?-turn around and say that the audience asked for it, and then blame them again for spending the money on the comics a
I’ve resisted diving into the High Republic books, mostly because Star Wars novels are so often terrible, and the idea of some so-so authors getting together and creating a new era of SW that exists only in books...I just couldn’t muster the energy to get started. But now that there are several books published, I figured I might as well take on a few books all at once, so I don’t have to try to remember the likely forgettable names of characters and events from previous books.Now I’ve read the f...
I want to preface this and say I was so excited for this book. That being said, it was... a disappointment. Things didn't get interesting till about halfway through the book. The first half felt like introduction after introduction to different characters, and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of them. It wasn't until the author focused on a few that I started to actually become somewhat interested. And even then... I still don't truly care about any of the characters. It felt like we on...
The ambitious and explosive new chapter in the galaxy far, far away comes out of the gate at a dead sprint with Light of the Jedi. As a longtime Legends EU fan, it reminds me in a lot of ways of the New Jedi Order in its sheer scope as it kickstarts a new multi-year, multi-author storytelling initiative. But there’s enough originality in Light of the Jedi to set it apart as a fresh take on familiar Star Wars elements. In fact, just about everything in Light of the Jedi is delightfully and boldly...
4.5/5I was given access to the first three High Republic novels in exchange for an honest review. And let me just say that the future of Star Wars is bright. Set 200 years before the prequel era, Light of the Jedi is the first novel in the High Republic publishing initiative. Written by Charles Soule (Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith), this is a high intensity, high stakes novel. It's still Star Wars, but it also feels quite different. The Jedi are in their prime and they can do things we've n...
This is a surprisingly original and fascinating entry into the SW canon, avoiding much of the trap of old character pressure by simply giving us a rip-roaring space adventure during the height of the Republic, 200 years before Phantom Menace.But wait, no fall of the republic? How could that be interesting?Trust me, bro. It is. Mass tragedy suddenly brings out the best in people, and the ones who answer that biggest call are the Jedi, and they're smart heroes. You know, a bright and optimistic an...
A great story, that while slow in some parts, great expands the Star Wars universe. Also, finally, a novel with Jedi featured prominently in it lol, I know a lot of folxs like non-Jedi stories from the Star Wars universe, but they just aren’t for me. I think Disney has been really stingy with the Jedi since they bought out SW, but it seems like maybe things are finally changing.There were many deaths in this book, some of which I wish hadn’t happened (a certain Jedi Master who died near the end