By Beth Revis

First the good news – this is an adventurous, interesting, well written retconning of the Han/Leia marriage….

Retconning, you ask? How many “legnds” books have depicted their wedding? Three that I already owned – Prophets of the Dark Side (1993), The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994), and Cracken’s Threat Dossier (1997). Each one different than the last. Since Disney bought the property in 2012, I think there was an Insider article about it, too.

And this is the best of the bunch from a pure writing standpoint, and is the current “in canon” retelling. I had it preordered, and its been sitting on my “to read” shelf since I received it in August. I think it is in second place behind “The Tempest Runner” in “longest its taken me to read/finish a new Star Wars book. Why?

I didn’t want to read yet again the “how they got married and honeymoon” shenanigans…. No offense to the author, I am tired of non-comic universes mining the same stories over and over again. Star Wars can be a gigantic universe full of stories. But, stories without the big names (Skywalkers, Solos, etc.) I am guessing don’t sell as well as those with young and Han and Leia on the cover.

Again, this is a fun, adventurous take on the story. I enjoyed it, when I got over my old man yells at clouds attitude.

368 Pages

4/5