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Pg 246 Han finally shows up! Yay!! Wait that’s it? Ugh.Pg 199 I’m still tired of new characters just for the record.Just more confusion is this confusion sandwich I guess.) I don’t know what the point of them is supposed to be.

If the interludes are there just for interest, it’s over before I’m able to care about anyone or anything. Are they important? Do these people show up again? I have no idea. And this is the main story, let alone the interludes (for context, Aftermath has interludes of events happening all over the galaxy after the empire fell that aren’t part of the main story line.

pg 140 We are STILL meeting new characters!.

I miss the old Legends stories where they were the main characters.

Well Han, Leia, and Luke still aren’t here even though I’m about 10 chapters in.

I mean, I love them but I prefer reading about Han, Leia, and Luke.

The book starts with some minor characters Wedge and Ackbar.

Here are a few of my margin notes about the characters: I struggle with keeping characters straight in all the books I read, but this book stretched me to my very limit. There are soooo many characters to keep track of. Look how cute Han and Leia are! How come they aren’t in this book? The Cast is Huge in This One And there are a few instances of retelling the exact same information from someone else’s point of view in case it wasn’t tedious enough for you. My example above actually happened over several pages. I could usually capture a few pages of plot in one sentence. So they stole a ship and got on board a Star Destroyer. I would pause while reading and summarize what happened to help with the confusion.

Don’t even get me started on how jerky the story was with frequent scene changes – sometimes after only a few paragraphs. Grrr! Why is this story so frustrating?! And why is this whole book written in present tense? Isn’t Star Wars always past tense? You know from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? I was so confused by the end of the book that I honestly couldn’t remember how the rebels found out some super secret information even though its literally the main plot. But 4 pages later I realized that by “gone” the character had meant the bad guys left but they weren’t dead. In one instance towards the end some bad guys conveniently died in a crash that all the good guys survived. I’m not sure what you gain by making the story so confusing on purpose. Pinning her arms.” -Chuck Wendig, Star Wars: Aftermath pg 355Ī few sentences later we find out it’s someone she knows and everything is ok. My brain from trying to read this fragmented story. The number one thing you need to know about Star Wars Aftermath: sentence fragments. But they haven’t reckoned on Norra and her newfound allies-her technical-genius son, a Zabrak bounty hunter, and a reprobate Imperial defector-who are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire’s oppressive reign once and for all. What she doesn’t know is just how close the enemy is-or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be.ĭetermined to preserve the Empire’s power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summit-to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles’s urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. Meanwhile, on the planet’s surface, former rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world-war weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he’s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding. It turns out, there’s more than just the Empire for the good guys to worry about.”- The Hollywood ReporterĪs the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance-now a fledgling New Republic-presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. “ Star Wars: Aftermath what happened after the events of 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.