This was the worst star wars book I've read yet. It read like a poorly written LGBTQ Romance with a bit if plot mixed in. Not my thing. I don't read Star Wars for angsty romance. I read it for a break from romance novels. I'm confused by all the romantic interest inuendos as well. Jedi giving side eye looks to each other. I feel like I'm reading a completely different world than the Star Wars universe from the movies and novels from that time. Syl, who is the main character, who is not a Jedi, c...

Having read the authors' other book A Test of Courage, I didn't have high hopes for this book. I wasn't disappointed. Long, tedious and dull, this book was a chore to get though. The lead human character was similar to the last one, young lady with dark skin and curly hair. This one, Syl was very unlikable and her constant whining monologues became monotonous. The romance felt like a plot device. We meet characters from prior books and while they were interesting and unique in prior works, they

4.5 rounded up to 5. this book was insane !!!! i LOVED learning more about the hyperspace lore and my brain went absolutely wild coming up with new theories. and how can you go wrong with vernestra, imri, and reath ???? syl and jordanna are so so cute and i really hope i get to see more of them in the future because i’m really interested in seeing where life takes them.

Giving this a 5 star review, because I refuse to let a bunch of whiny fanboys tank the rating of a book that has a 1 sentence description, and isn’t even out yet. Will leave another review once I’ve read it :)

I have had a difficult time with Justina Ireland's Star Wars books. "Spark of Resistance" was a fun little story that built up hype for the Rise of Skywalker, but basically had no plot. "A Test of Courage" was a step up in that Ireland had an intriguing plot for such a short story. The problem there was that Ireland made a lot of small, subtle decisions in the story that made me frustrated with it. So I went in hoping that third time was the charm......unfortunately, it really isn't. This book h...

2.5 starsSo far, both of the YA High Republic books have been better than the adult ones, but in the end this one was better than its adult companion The Rising Storm only because I *hated* TRS but found this one to just be kind of boring.I struggled for a good portion of the book to even really describe what the plot was. There is far less action in this book than in any other HR story I’ve read, and it seems ill fitting after the first YA book was so suspenseful and dealing with a big threat t...

Leaving a 5-star rating because y'all butthurt fanboys suck.

This is part of The High Republic series where several novels, short stories, comic books, and audiobooks cover this area. The author has previously written a short story with a young Jedi named Vern. She brings back that character which I was looking forward to because I believe that short story has been the best offering in this series up to this point. In this one, a couple of Jedi and their padawans are being called back to Coruscant as there is a new problem with dealing with the Nihil. The...

Very slow but I loved the characters so it wasn’t a problem

I gave it a good try, but I am done with the High Republic.

I had such a great time reading this book. Justina Ireland really manages to focus on her characters and give everyone their moment to shine, even though the ensemble is pretty big. I love the lore we are getting in this and that we got a glimpse into both Starlight and Coruscant. We also got to see characters from the adult novels again (those were some of my favourite chapters) and also got some intriguing hints of what they are up to, as well as what their emotional state might be. You really...

Family, romance, adventure, betrayal are the best Star Wars. Justina Ireland wrote a classic! Loved it! Full review goes live on publication date.

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One thing that makes a truly good Young Adult novel stand out from the crowd is strong character work, and Out of the Shadows meets and exceeds this expectation in a big way.Set a few months after the events of The Rising Storm and Race to Crashpoint Tower, this books follows a group of characters all dealing with the emotional and logistical fallout of the disaster at the Republic Fair. Some, like Sylvestri Yarrow, are characters we are meeting for the first time. But we also get to catch up wi...

OUT OF THE SHADOWS Non-Spoiler Review…Sylvestri Yarrow hauls cargo and is definitely down on her luck. Her mother was killed by the Nihil, her ship was stolen, she’s lost her girlfriend, is up to her ears in debt, and things need to change! So Syl is on her way to Coruscant to make someone listen and do something.Vernestra Rwoh is a Jedi Knight and doesn’t believe in luck. The Force provides and right now, it’s providing reassignment, hyperspace visions and who knew having a Padawan was this har...

4.75 stars. “Things will work out for the best and as they must. That is what I know, because even though I’m not a Jedi, I do believe in the Force.” As the last book of wave two of The High Republic Out of the Shadows did an amazing job at connecting preexisting plot points at the same time it added even more tension and expanded what it's happening on the galaxy. It's been a year since the Hyperspace Disaster occurred and things, rather than calming down, are more muddled and comp

Out of the Shadows is a Young Adult novel that is part of the new Disney Star Wars: The High Republic content.This novel is set approximately a year after the galaxy-wide event known as the Great Disaster.This is the fourth installment of the High Republic materials that I have read and I enjoyed watching some of the previous storylines converge in this one.The larger, outlying picture is beginning to come into focus. This novel follows a host of different perspectives, including one of my favor...

A solid entry into the High Republic series. It does get a bit too YA at times by focusing on a LGBTQ romance. However, this is also much more character focused than Light of the Jedi or The Rising Storm. There's a small group of characters that are focused on which makes this much more enjoyable to me than the galaxy sprawling character lists we bounce between in the adult novels.The main character is Syl. She's a cargo hauler, down on her luck, and basically, on her own since her mom died. The...

It’s hard to believe that we’re 6 books deep into the “High Republic” publishing initiative already, which only just kicked off this last January. Even harder to believe? That somehow, with each passing book, this universe – and the characters and stories within it – somehow seem to become even MORE compelling the more we're introduced to them, not less. With “Out of the Shadows” specifically, Justina Ireland has taken distinct plot elements from all of the previous 5 novels – in particular, "A

One of the poorest novels of the high republic series. It is essentially a non-book, nothing worth mentioning happens in %85 of the book, full of forgettable characters and a meaningless ending. Existing characters behave abnormally; stupidly like Marchion Ro, or extremely weakly like all Jedi, and Nan, to focus on this boring new character: Syl. Syl, her story, her mom and her romance are all extremely boring and out of style for Star Wars, why the excessive focus on her love life and her creep...