Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
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Narrated by:
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Marc Thompson
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Saskia Maarleveld
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By:
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Beth Revis
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You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo.
The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolated. But on the forest moon of Endor, amongst the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.
After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he proposes to Leia, it's the first time in a long time he's had a good feeling about this. For Leia, a lifetime of fighting doesn't truly seem over. There is work still to do, penance to pay for the dark secret she now knows runs through her veins. Her brother, Luke, is offering her that chance - one that comes with family and the promise of the Force. But when Han asks her to marry him, Leia finds her answer immediately on her lips.... Yes.
But happily ever after doesn't come easily. As soon as Han and Leia depart their idyllic ceremony on Endor for their honeymoon, they find themselves on the grandest and most glamorous stage of all: the Halcyon, a luxury vessel on a very public journey to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy. Their marriage, and the peace and prosperity it represents, is a lightning rod for everyone in the galaxy—including Imperial remnants still clinging to power.
Facing their most desperate hour, the soldiers of the Empire have dispersed across the galaxy, retrenching on isolated worlds vulnerable to their influence. As the Halcyon travels from world to world, one thing becomes abundantly clear: the war is not over. But as danger draws closer, Han and Leia find that they fight their best battles not alone but as husband and wife.
©2022 Beth Revis (P)2022 Penguin Audiomarc did good the female voice not so much
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A beautiful portrayal & expansion of our favorite SW duo
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Slow and sluggish
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Another bit of the galaxy filled in.
we always wondered what Leia's wedding dress was like.
Princess and Han
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With regards to the middle section of this novel; I have a huge problem with the shameful plugs for the Star Wars cruise at Disney World. Unlike Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire by Deliah S Dawson, Princess, and the scoundrel tries to repeat the success and fails miserably (in my opinion). The fantastic thing about Black Spire was that Dawson made the sights and places of Batu feel lived-in and the town became a character within the book. In Black Spire, places were revisited and added to the plot and tension of the story. This book doesn't do that. It name-checks all the places you can visit on the Halcyon, so we visit the bar, the bridge, the engineering section, the brig, etc, but we never return to an area and the middle portion of the book feels like its padding out the story to encompass a brief set by Disney/Lucasfilm to make sure every reader knows all the areas they can visit for themselves. This part of the book feels like a very badly disguised marketing book.
Where this book excels is once Han and Leia land on the planet of Madurs. This is the part of the book where the story soars. Some really nice twists and turns and some genuine edge-of-your-seat set pieces, with some fantastic politics about subjugated peoples.
This is only the 2nd-star wars book I have marked as low as I have to date.
Shameful plugs to bulk out a great 3rd act
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