The small-scale chapters in the middle where the Jedi were simply helping the people on Kwenn gave me a cozy vibe, honestly preferred those chapters to Depa's story. Great review

I’m buying this book now because of you Johnathon oh and mace windu novel coming out October 15

I am his student. He is my history teacher.

Bought this today mainly for the cover art.

I'm reading it now and think it's good but has a slow start, I'm hoping the Kwenn stuff pulls me in more. It's frustrating that Living Force and Glass Abyss are the only novels outside of High Republic for this year and looking at how both tell stories not really exploring anything earth shattering the reason becomes clear: the visual media is filling up the timeline more and more, and they don't want to write those shows into a corner. Thus, you've got Inquisitor Rise of the Red Blade telling the story about a character who's fate is already known or Living Force is about vacation away from the main galaxy. And I miss stories like Dooku Jedi Lost or the Battlefront games that told bigger scale stories. They need to leave the Skywalker saga soon so that the books and comics can come back into 6 movie period in a meaningful way. Personally I think DOTJ movie is the project that will break out star wars from the old timeline and get things back in track again.

I just loved getting you spend time with TPM Council and getting to know these characters better. I firmly feel that I know every single one of them and watching prequel content will probably be changed drastically because of this book. This is also on ironically, the funniest Star Wars book I’ve ever read. With Yareal Poof leading the way on that. It’s also affirmed that Qui-Gon is my favorite Jedi of all time.

I would agree there are too many POVs and this would’ve been a great series if we weren’t already in the midst of THR. I’m also a little burned out on the prequel era stuff we seem to be getting a lot lately and I would love some stuff either during the OT era or even post ROTJ but that’s just me. I’m sure part of the influx of prequel era books are because of the anniversaries of the movies coming up

Gonna go buy this soon - it's gonna be my first john Jackson Miller novel ^^

So, a question that kinda ties into what I was commenting earlier, but what do you think is the new frontier for Star Wars? We of course have the Rey movie, Mandalorian movie, and the Thrawn movie. Then we've got Acolyte and Andor S2 but nothing I've mentioned seems to feel like the next breakout for star wars. Andor is ending; Acolyte is telling us about the end of the High Republic versus the beginning; the Rey movie is a continuation of the sequels and the announcement of just one movie in that era suggests to me that they're still planning that era out; Bad Batch is ending and while another show is probably planned afterwards, the timeline between TCW and Rebels is closing, and soon the timeline there will be filled; I 100% expect a Ninth Jedi or some Visions show announced next year at Celebration Japan, but Visions just won't have the global grasp as the movies; and the Mandoverse has become a conclusion of the animated shows and bridge to the sequels, so I just have the feeling that the Mandoverse is rapidly reaching its conclusion in the next two movies and Ahsoka S2. Personally, I think DOTJ if done right is the future of the brand. They've seeding the groundwork for this for awhile in TCW, Rebels, Andor, TLJ, and Ahsoka (Peridea, Bendu, Mortis, Rakatan invasion, Ahch-To). Plus, the tie in material could be absolutely nuts, unlike anything we've seen since the Journey To tie ins for the sequels: novels, guidebooks, comics, maybe even an animated series or LA show. Even if the movie is just decent, the sheer explosion of new content on all sides of media could bring Star Wars from its slump.

Great video as always!

So excited to read this

I really hope JJM continues to write star wars for awhile, because he's an author that can do so much with so little. Like he can write an S tier book based on some background character if told to do so. What books would you like to see him write? I think he could write some amazing Andor and Bad Batch tie ins, like a Hemlock origin story.

I have the book but gonna be a bit before I get to it because I'm reading through high republic phase 2

I was waiting for your review to finally decide if I should buy it. Seems that I should … 😉

Do you judge tie-in fiction harsher then original fiction?

Please tell me Bail Organa is in this one, so tired of Star Wars evading to touch Alderaan in general, there's so much potential in a story about Alderaan during The High Republic or before TPM but all we get is a mention of a random Alderaanian singer 😩

How much Plo-Koon do we get?

Video Editing perfect and voice quality good. But SEO some Problem.