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Star Wars: The Fallen Star

Star Wars: The High Republic, Book 3

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Star Wars: The Fallen Star

By: Claudia Gray
Narrated by: Marc Thompson
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Brought to you by Penguin.

In this gripping sequel to Star Wars: The Rising Storm, the light of the Jedi faces its darkest hour.

Time and again, the vicious raiders known as the Nihil have sought to bring the golden age of the High Republic to a fiery end. Time and again, the High Republic has emerged battered and weary, but victorious thank to its Jedi protectors - and there is no monument to their cause grander than the Starlight Beacon.

Hanging like a jewel in the Outer Rim, the Beacon embodies the High Republic at the apex of its aspirations: a hub of culture and knowledge, a bright torch against the darkness of the unknown, and an extended hand of welcome to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. As survivors and refugees flee the Nihil's attacks, the Beacon and its crew stand ready to shelter and heal.

The grateful Knights and Padawans of the Jedi Order stationed there finally have a chance to recover - from the pain of their injuries and the grief of their losses. But the storm they thought had passed still rages; they are simply caught in its eye. Marchion Ro, the true mastermind of the Nihil, is preparing his most daring attack yet - one designed to snuff out the light of the Jedi.

©2022 Claudia Gray (P)2022 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Adventure Fantasy Military Science Fiction Space Opera Star Wars Fiction Scary Interstellar

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Ending this particular phase on disturbingly eerie note.
After getting to know some awesome well rounded characters in the first few books... get ready to let them go. If we were talking SW movie trilogies - this would be ROTS - as a reader Claudia Gray makes you feel hopeless as you see the magnification jedi unravel.

Marchion Ro is now up there with the likes of Vader & Palpatine - although his thrust for destruction & chaos is equal to the Emperors lust for power & control. Ro is almost more menacing, as he doesn't care who ends up as collateral damage, targeting whoever he needs to to hurt the jedi & the republic. He may not have a planet killer yet, but if he could get his hands on one he'd let the whole galaxy burn just to spite the jedi. A true mad man in every sense of the word.

A harrowing disaster story.

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The Crew of the Vessel, especially Geode and Leox are worth the entrance fee alone, the progression of a complex Elzar, the continuation of a deeply serious anti-force threat to the Jedi, a significant turn of events in the Nihil’s favour ... and a big shoutout to an amazingly amusing and sarcastic “45” voice by Marc Thompson. Strangely, the anti-force threat, despite being severe and devastating, it’s unclear what is happening. It’s a slow-burning first-half of the book, and somehow, the absolutely drama of the crashing of Starlight is not delivered in quite the way it could have been.

Fantastic polished performance by narrator though, excellent voices, emotion and background sound effects.

An epic story with huge consequences

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This book has won me over on the high republic and I will be looking forward to the new novels. The light of the Jedi and the rising storm didn’t really do much for me but I enjoyed aspects of them. All the way through this book I was getting titanic vibes and it was genuinely exciting where it would go next. There was less main characters which I appreciated and far more casualties than I thought there would be (hat of for that one)
Grays writing was very good and knew how to bring tension, while having lighthearted conversations. Bel was definitely my favourite character, along with Elzar.

Less is more

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I've never been one to entertain the "it gets good several books in" line of logic as a point in the favour of a book series, but I'd be lying if I said The High Republic isn't getting better the further in I go. The groundwork done in the previous books to establish characters and settings is put to good use here as the story narrows focus and zooms in on only a few of them to tell a more localised and compelling story. Also, it's apparent in this book that Star Wars as a setting lends itself really well to horror, as some scenes do a bang-up job evoking that tone.

Claudia Gray is ruthless in her treatment of the established characters in the best possible way, and clearly understands them well, in particular, the continuation of the story of Elzar Mann, continues to be a high-point for me.

though I do just have to mention, that there was one line, only one mind, that I thought was just...really weird prose. It stuck out enough that I don't actually think I need to say where it was. If you listen, you'll know. Other than that though, pretty damn good story.

The presentation is great as usual, if you've listened to most any Star Wars book on here you know what to expect.

Overall I'd say this is the best book in the series to date. Certainly had me more gripped than I expected. Still maybe a bit long for the story it's telling, but I felt less of that runtime this time. Lately the High Republic is going from strength to strength, and I'm very curious to see it continue.

Okay, now I'm getting into this. Nice and focused.

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thrilling tale! excellent. I find myself cheering on the baddies! lots of twist and turns.

excellent!

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