Out of the Shadows
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Another exciting adventure from the #1 New York Times best-selling series! The darkest secrets are the hardest to bring to light.... Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end of sight. She's been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom's death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help, but gets sidetracked when she's drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested... Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh has been summoned to Coruscant, but with no idea of why or by whom. She and her Padawan Imri Cantaros arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas—and are asked to assist with the property dispute on the frontier. But why? What is so important about an empty patch of space? The answer will lead Vernestra to a new understanding of her abilities, and take Syl back to the past...and to truths that will finally come out of the shadows. Don't miss any of the adventure and excitement of Star Wars: The High Republic! Into the Dark by Claudia Gray A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older
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9 primary books97 released booksStar Wars Canon
Star Wars Canon is a 97-book series with 94 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by Terry Brooks, R. A. Salvatore, and Karen Traviss.
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1 primary book50 released booksStar Wars: The High Republic
Star Wars: The High Republic is a 50-book series with 50 released primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Charles Soule, Shima Shinya, and Daniel Older.
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Second time through always brings more to light and reminds one of what was forgotten. Probably too much time between reading this the first time and reading the third adult novel. The reader was solid, not getting too far afield with outlandish accents for everybody.
After the last YA book introduced a brilliant cast, Reath Silas, Master Cohmac and Orla, Affie, Leox, and Geode, Ireland makes the questionable decision to ignore most of those characters, and turn Reath and Cohmac into side characters.
Instead, a new character is introduced, and the book focuses more on a ham-fisted romance story, that I'm certain gets more credit than it's due purely because it is an LGBTQ+ relationship. It was sweet at times, but I do not care for these two characters. They were really dull and uninteresting, and I could not believe the focus they got in this novel. A totally misguided sidestep.
Justina Ireland's writing style is quite possibly the most dull I've read since Barbara Hambly's Callista books, but it has the opposite issue. While Hambly's prose was endless and spiralling through long and complex descriptions and other nonsense, Ireland's is annoyingly simple.
This book reads nothing like a YA book. It feels targeted at young teens who read romance fanfiction. Every character seems to have an eye for one another, and the way the main girl, Syl, eyes women is almost creepy. If a man was written like this, people would be very mad, but to me, it is just as strange. Listen, we're attracted to people. We have thoughts we wouldn't openly share with everyone. But it seems to be on her mind 24/7, and I don't always need to see this on the page.
