The Fallen Star

What a fun read, I'm so happy with how this story has progressed.

If Claudia Gray actually killed Burryaga off though....I will riot.

Fallen star is a great conclusion to the first phase of the High Republic that mostly sticks the landing (pun intended). It’s a powder keg of dramatic irony as well all know how it will end and we’re forced to just sit and watch the disaster unfold.

No one feels safe at any point, characters are getting death flags left, right, and centre and not just the ones who do die so none are too predictable by the end and the characters that do die are all done effectively and really gives it this larger than life feeling. I do have some issues with how the fall of Starlight has been handled in books/comics after this but none of that is the fault of Fallen Star.

The fact that pretty much the entire book takes place in this one location with very little happening outside the station gives the book great flow and a focused sense of direction that results in time flying by when reading.

Even with all the disaster and tension, Fallen Star does still manage to make room for levity at times though. New jedi, Regald Coll was a great introduction who’s attitude had me laughing quite a bit and of course the return of the Vessel crew, especially Geode, continue to be expertly written by Claudia Gray to deliver the funniest, most brilliant character in all of Star Wars. I will genuinely never tire of Geode based humour i think.

tl;dr; Just not for me.

I've read most of the adult focused High Republic and whatever the prequels were called, books. They're just not that engaging and rely way too much on the reader having read the comics, and the YA books.

I knew going in they'd do that so, so that's not part of my rating, just a general gripe. :)

My rating is because the story just took forever to not get very far.