Star Wars: Before the Awakening

Greg Rucka

Dec 2015 · Sold by Disney Electronic Content

About this ebook

A companion piece to the "Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens" character novels, Star Wars: Before the Awakening is an anthology book that focuses on the lives of Rey, Finn, and Poe before the events of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Ratings and reviews

The Resistance and First Order are mirrors of each other, both being illegal instruments that infringes the Galactic Concordance. The final chapter of this book portrays Leia Organa as a recalcitrant warlord. Unable to shake off the hangover of Galactic Civil War, Leia Organa radicalizes members of the Republican Navy to join her private war. She ordered non-attributable raid into Galactic Empire territory and started a shooting war. The New Republic, by keeping a private militia (the Resistance) on a long leash, probably stoked insecurities on the side of the Galactic Empire - thereby compelling the Galactic Empire to re-militarize.

This book didn't interest me that much. This is odd considering how I loved all three of these main characters in The Force Awakens. The Finn story was meh but OK enough to have you a bit interested. The Rey story was by far the best part of the book. This was surprisingly somewhat decent. I didn't like the Poe story, though. It was just super bland, repetitive, predictable, and boring.

The set up for the movie is good. I love how little details from the movie are explained. However, the whole book is somewhat tedious with forced references, especially to minoks. I wouldn't recommend it for the price it is at now, but since it is short, it is worth a read.