Journey to Star Wars

the Last Jedi Leia, Princess of Alderaan

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Claudia Gray: Journey to Star Wars (2017, Disney Publishing Worldwide)

416 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2017 by Disney Publishing Worldwide.

ISBN:
978-1-4847-8078-7
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5 stars (2 reviews)

It is Leia Organa's sixteenth birthday and she participates in the traditional ceremony where she declares her intention to one day take the throne of Alderaan. But she's much more concerned about the way her parents are acting lately: lots of meetings and late dinners and not talking to her as much as they used to. Eventually she discovers the reason for their secrecy: their involvement in the increasingly organized rebellion. When Leia decides to become involved herself in the fight against the Empire, whether her parents approve or not, she will have to prove to them that she is a valuable asset who must be allowed to take a stand, regardless of the risk to herself. Her stand will also put her at odds with a pacifist young Alderaanian man who gives Leia her first kiss…and her first real loss.

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5 stars

Leia will and always has been my favorite character from Star Wars. Unlike every other teenage boy who saw the original trilogy it was never that dumb bikini it was always her strength. She could shoot people, she didn’t take crap from no one, and she new what needed to be done. It also helped that an awesome lady like Carrie Fisher brought her to life.

This finally gives a glimpse of what Alderaan could have been like. What drove her as a child, what got her as that young women on the CR90 running from a star destroyer, only to verbally slap the dark lord of the sith?

I also appreciated a few tidbits thrown in to wrap up some lose end from the Clone Wars on a few characters.

Really enjoyed this book, hope others do as well.

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Princesses, fiction
  • Science fiction