I must say that I love the High Republic era. I wonder if they would ever turn these books into movies.

Please do an in depth spoiler review too, I loved this book and want to hear more of your thoughts!

Just finished reading The battle of Jedha last week and liked it as much as the other books in phase 2 can’t wait to get my hands on this one 😅. Great works on the channel you two made me rediscover my love for Star wars and you are the ones that got me to start reading the books also Thanks ❤

Convergence was one of my favourite Star Wars novels of the last decade, so hyped for the sequel and over the moon that Alex dug it so much! 🤗

Yaddle was in the book. 10/10

I loved Path of Deceit the most from phase 2. Looking forward for this one...

Just finished Cataclysm. Amazing read! Might be the most intense Star Wars book I read. A true Jedi battle where you don’t know which side the battle lean. And yes, what’s going on with Marda Ro?

My only issue with the high republic is that each book has had a massive disaster movie set piece other than convergence (my favourite of the books so far) which makes each one feel more and more hollow - I feel like the tension should be ramping up, not just disaster over and over

Im one of the few people that really enjoyed Convergence so i'm so excited to dive into Cataclysm! Phase 2 on a whole has been very strong ; Path of Deceit and The Battle of Jedha were excellent entries and I know wave 2 is gonna pay off the stakes set up in the first wave

In your ad you mentioned it sounding like a movie on audible and as someone who almost exclusively listens to books these days I can confirm that’s 100% true, I have so much fun with all the Star Wars audiobooks.

Looking forward to it, as usual with the High Republic. I still have to finish Battle Scars first though! You wait around for a Star Wars novel and then two come along at once!

I was absolutely in love with Path of Deceit and really liked Convergence. Looking forward to this!

So happy your channel is here reviewing these books. I'm the only person I know reading the High Republic and it's nice to talk about it with other fans. I enjoyed Cataclysm! I thought the Night of Sorrows was too long, and some dialog at the end was really cheesy but I agree it felt more like phase 1. I like Path of Deceit and Convergence more, but that's by no means a slam on this one. Lydia Kang nailed it, and I loved her acknowledgements at the end, true fan 😊

Just read it and really enjoyed it. Haven’t read the YA novels as of yet. But I picked up the pieces pretty quick of who they were.

Okay, thank you for soothing my fears about this book. I didn't like Convergence much but loved Path of Deceit so if this is a great follow-up to those I'm in.

So glad to see more high republic content I miss it a lot

Convergence is far and away my favourite so far - one of my favourites outside Star Wars - so wow!. Incidentally, I don't think we'll spend more time with the Bell and Avar etc - my money's on phase 3 jumping at least 50 years ahead

Stoked for the Path sequel. They are who I’m most interested in in Phase 2.

I was already looking forward to this, but after reading most of battle scars, this is going to feel like Shakespeare in comparison

Agreed, definitely my favorite book of Phase 2

What a great birthday present

This Jedi looks a lot like DK from Tokyo Drift

I hope you see a variety of different races and not just the standard humans, orcs, and Elves. I want Goliaths, War Forges, Drenai(I know the spelling is wrong).

Hi, is your t-shirt on sale anywhere? I love how it's not overly clear it's a Star wars t-shirt

Since I imagine you've read both, does Quest for Planet X spoike ANYTHING from Cataclysm? I feel like Quest for the Hidden City spoiled the end of Convergence

I still think Path Of Deceit is my favorite Phase 2 book, but this is the kind of novel I was hoping we’d get in phase 2. I still didn’t really like the characters introduced (to me) in Battle Of Jedha. I also loved the inclusion of a certain Jedi getting a lot of time in this novel as I feel they’re very underrepresented.

I've only read the adult novels (and Into the Dark) and was a little confused at times. The Open Hand story still was able to make sense, but I definitely felt like I was missing some things. Same with what happened on Jedha. Guess I have time to catch up before phase 3 lol.

Just this, exactly my thoughts man I agree completely. Nothing else to say, you’re just correct 😂

Do you think someone could jump into cataclysm without reading anything else from phase 2? None of it has interested me but this seems cool

Whats the official reading order of phase two i stopped reading right before it came out and now im lost

You are out of your damn gourd by releasing this instead of at least acknowledging Hunters: Battle for the Arena.

Thoughts on Damon Lindelofs film now being cancelled as of today

It breaks my heart that I simply have not been able to keep up. I started falling behind towards the end of Phase 1, and I just haven't been able to read any of the Phase 2 books. I've been able to keep up with the comics, but that's so much less of a time investment. I kind of wish all of the novels could receive a comic adaptation.

Without spoiling anything, does Cataclysm take place before or after Path of Vengeance?

i want to get into reading the high republic books but do i need to read the comics aswell as the books

I'm glad that someone likes phase 2 but convergence turned me off of Star Wars books for a while. I'm going to skip this one until we go back to the characters of phase 1. Thank you for your review.

Does the battle of jedha connect to the comic?

Do I have to finish convergence to understand cataclysm?

Why does Axel have a lightsaber here? I'm sorry, but I just hardly can follow the second phase right now.

I like the cover art and what's the name of the Jedi on the cover?

How do you get this so early I don’t understand

Who is that on the cover?

Please say the novels are staying strong 🙏

“Favourite book of phase 2” not high praise but we move

Great to hear Cataclysm is an improvement because I thought Convergence was awful.

I enjoyed Convergence more. I really enjoyed the dynamic between Gella, Axel, Xiri, and Phan-Tu and missed them working together in this book. The batte on Dalna also went on longer then i think it should have. And i may have missed something, but it felt like the Parh's base was way larger than depicted in Path of Deciet. I really enjoyed Gella and Axel and while it gave a good conclusion to their story, i was a little disappointed there wasn't more of their chapters. I still thoroughly enjoyed the book, but found the last act drawn out with to much to keep track of.

I'm glad phase 2 apparently finished strong, cuz Fallen Star was a massive disappointment after how brilliant the first 2 novels were

Ok so this is going to be a rant about Phase 2 because I am hugely disappointed about how we went from a fantastic phase 1 to whatever this was. I have finally managed to make it through this. Was marginally better than Convergence which isn't saying much given it was so boring. The only saving grace of phase 2 has been the comics which although still not as good as Phase 1 have been more interesting than the novels. I think going back a hundred odd years just after being introduced to this new era and these countless upon countless new characters was a massive mistake. It has upset the momentum completely and has taken me right out of the THR era which I was really enjoying. What's more is what was the point in this prequel phase? None of these characters save maybe 3 actually appear in the Phase 1. There's not even any Nihil. The prequel films serve a huge impactful purpose that is clear to see. Phase 2 gives us nothing but a few of the nameless. All I can say is I hope that phase 3 continues the quality of phase 1 (with the characters that we had just started to love that were then quickly stripped away) but at least brings in something from phase 2 to make it all seem worthwhile. I'm angry but only cause I'm so gutted 😭

I’m just glad it’s over. I found Cataclysm to be the worst written and hardest to finish.