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Missed opportunity for a sw horror story

Revisado: 04-02-25

Great performance but reduced the drengir to childish villains. The author backed themselves into a corner that they couldn’t get out of without extreme plot armor.

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Reads like a racy fan fiction, which isn’t all bad

Revisado: 04-01-25

The story is like 10 percent fights. 20% running character thought tangents about sex. 10% characters fantasizing about sex during battles. And 60% merrin hooking up - with like 100 pages of heavy detail - while cal tries to wrap his head around thins new emotion he feels: jealousy.

Having said that, Sam maggs is an excellent writer that describes both scenes and character psychology with equal panache and they put some cool canon cameos (objects from KOTOR) in the mix but at the end of the day this story was unnecessary and imo too sexy for sw. Unless you want to know what happened to greez arm.

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An excellent ode to star wars past

Revisado: 02-07-25

Shinick writes beautifully and thoughtfully, painting a picture of both the post Jedi/post empire galaxy and also telling a wonderful coming of age story where an awkward (otaku) Star Wars Jedi nerd finds his place in an ever expanding galaxy. The cameos are well written and very well thought out, not overwhelming or intrusive, but only used to add to or advance the already blossoming story. I would recommend this book to new and long time fans alike.
The narrator would get five stars except for some clear pronunciation issues that are a pet peeve of mine. Not even in universe words but just English language stuff that should’ve been caught by the director and editor. Otherwise the performance and sound editing are top notch.

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Beautiful Star Wars love story

Revisado: 02-03-25

I really like how the writer tells this entire story from two perspectives , alternating between Izzy and Jules while really maintaining the different tones that each character brings to the narrative. The sound engineering is also top notch, with excellent music and sfx that help bring the story to life. Not a must read, as it’s a real standalone story, but definitely worth a listen for the depth it brings to the world of batuu and the resistance era galaxy as a whole.

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The best resistance era story so far

Revisado: 01-21-25

I feel like this story is so much better than the sequel movies and honestly so much more essential to understanding how they get from A to B to C in the storyline. There’s so much essential character development and story telling that helps frame the on and off screen events throughout the galaxy that it honestly should have been “required reading” back in 2018 or whatever. Marc Thompson is fantastic as always, further cementing himself as both the voice of Star Wars and easily my personal favorite audiobook narrator of all time. Highly recommended.

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Weaving beautiful threads of story

Revisado: 12-07-24

The author uses a really good intertwining storytelling style where the perspective naturally transitions within the chapters as the characters come into contact with each other or have a shared experience of some sort. It must’ve taken a LOT of careful planning but it was totally worth it for the effect.

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Literally clapped at the conclusion

Revisado: 12-04-24

So good I had to listen in one go. Couldn’t stop. Highly recommend checking this one out even if audiobooks are not your normal thing.

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One of the absolute best Star Wars stories

Revisado: 12-02-24

Absolutely amazing. Voice acting, sound mixing, story, all done with mastery worthy of a Jedi Master.

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Drags at first but finishes well

Revisado: 11-01-24

The narration was ok but the pacing of the story must’ve made it incredibly difficult for the narrator to keep it engaging. Too much information was repeated too many times throughout the story, too many descriptions and exposition felt like copy and paste, and overall the story felt 100 pages too long because of it. Having said that, there are key elements to the overall story of the high republic that really can’t be missed and when the novel is at its best it is truly great. I still recommend it, and I hope that the narrator gets more (better) opportunities to demonstrate her skills in the future, but this was the first high republic novel that I struggled to get through. I am still glad I did, because it felt like a turning point for the series and left me feeling very excited for what comes next.

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Exactly what the saga needed

Revisado: 11-26-23

This book was the perfect amount of light in dark and accelerating the story forward that was needed to reignite my passion for the high Republic

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