(Part 3) Top products from r/StarWarsEU
We found 21 product mentions on r/StarWarsEU. We ranked the 89 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
44. Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Aftermath Star Wars Journey to Star Wars The Force Awakens
45. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - The Collected Stories (Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Legends)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Lucas Books
46. Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Into the Void (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Legends)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Into the Voidthis book dates back before the movies and the video game KOTORFast pace, and easy to readA must for all Star Wars fans
48. The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
49. Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
54. Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Volume 1 (Epic Collection: Star Wars)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Marvel Comics
55. The Rise of the Empire: Star Wars: Featuring the novels Star Wars: Tarkin, Star Wars: A New Dawn, and 3 all-new short stories
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Del Rey
57. Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
The book I'd recommend most for good stories focusing on leia or other female leads would be one that just came out last week, and I just finished. It is in the new canon, and is called 'Bloodline'. Leia is front and center in it, and the book is basically bridging the gap between return of the jedi, and the force awakens. It takes place about 6 years before TFA (the force awakens), and deals with Leia trying to get things done in the senate despite political stagnation (nobody agrees on anything, and so nothing gets done), while also trying to stop a rising cartel from gaining more power, and eventually her creating the resistance seen in TFA. It's by Claudia Gray; she is quickly becoming one of my favored authors, across both old and new star wars eu.
She has another book called 'Lost Stars' that is pretty good too, but may not be what you're looking for. It is, at it's core, a romance between a guy and a girl, starting before a new hope, and taking them through all the events of the original trilogy of movies. It focuses on both of them, and switches between their perspectives every so often, so it focuses on a female lead, but also on the male lead pretty evenly, so I'm not sure how well that one fits your criteria. But it is pretty good! :)
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Those are both in the new canon. If you're looking for stuff from the old canon, I'm not sure of anything that is actually focused on Leia or another female lead, instead of being focused on Luke or Han and having a prominent secondary female character. I know theres at least a few, but their names aren't coming to me at the moment. I keep thinking of a trilogy called 'Sword of the Jedi' that was going to center around Han Solo's daughter Jaina, but that trilogy got cancelled in the shakeup of disney buying lucasfilm...
Hmm, lets see, I know theres something haha, I'm positive... I might edit this or reply to it when I remember. Hopefully this has helped a little though!
Oh, and welcome to reddit, as well as the star wars EU! :D
I hope you'll enjoy your stay, haha!
I loved Young Indiana Jones as a kid, but rarely got to see an episode on TV for some reason. Now it's all on Netflix. The dialogue, pacing and acting are often lacking, but it's amazing what production value Lucasfilm managed for a tv miniseries. They also cover tons of obscure historical stuff, and an entire season or arc on the Great War. There seem to be three "arcs": Indiana Jones as a kid, Jones as a Belgian volunteer and eventually secret agent during the First World War, and Jones finding his true calling through several postwar adventures. If you can find "the lost Journal of Indiana Jones"http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Journal-Indiana-Jones/dp/1416563156 its a pretty good recapitulation of all his various adventures.
I can't speak from a ton of experience over the list of novels in the EU, but I personally enjoyed Kenobi. Fits into Ben's time on Tatooine.
Could go for the new marvel comics as well, few decent reads in the bunch.
When it comes to stepping into the EU for the first time, you should generally read the Thrawn Trilogy, X-Wing up to starfighters of Adumar/courtship of princesses/I, Jedi, and the Jedi Academy Trilogy first, as those are the earliest works that are integral to the EU (at least the post-endor EU). But really, you should read Zahns books in the order they were released. And yes, Mara Jade: by the Emperors hand is worth reading. It's well written, and revolves heavily around Mara as an Imperial Agent. It is more difficult to get a hold of now though, because of the Disney buy out. It's probably cheaper to get it in an omnibus with other stories. I got it with the Shadows of the Empire omnibus back when Dark Horse published them, but now they're probably in the legends epic collection published by Marvel. It's probably in the first volume of the New Republic collections.
edit: Yes, it is. https://www.amazon.ca/Star-Wars-Legends-Epic-Collection/dp/0785197168/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1478640230&sr=8-13&keywords=legends+epic+collection
second edit: Also, unless you already know Mara's mission given to her by the Emperor, then you may want to read the Thrawn Trilogy first.
Sounds good! Haven't read much from that era, and the schedule seems very doable.
Buy links:
Couldn't find the kindle version.
And please, if you have read the book and might drop a spoiler, skim through the assigned chapters before joining the discussion. Spoilers can ruin this for everyone and lets try and have a good start for our book club!
Also, keep the discussion to the book and not future events/other books. This could very easily ruin/spoil books for other members.
Lost Stars might be good
1) Lords of the Sith
Dark Side Power on display by Vader and Sidious.
2) Lost Stars
Getting a whole new perspective (a couple actually) on the events of the Original Trilogy (and beyond) though the eyes of two childhood friends (a boy and a girl) who dream of becoming Imperial pilots together and eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War. I really enjoyed the characters in this book, and really hope to see more of their story in the future.
Note: This is listed as a "young adult" novel, but I really don't understand why, other than possibly it's length. There was actually more 'adult' type content (i.e. sex related) in this book than most of the Star Wars novels as there is sort of a coming-of-age element to the story (maybe that's why it got the YA tag, idk).
3) A New Dawn
Just a fun story of a former padawan in hiding after surviving order 66, and an anti-Imperial pilot looking to stir up trouble. Lots of action and an interesting villain. This story introduces two of the characters from the Rebels tv series, and takes place about 6 years before the series iirc.
4) Tarkin
An in depth character novel on one of the real villains of the original Star Wars film, and it did not disappoint. It might be considered informational than entertaining as it wasn't very action-packed.
Those are my top-4, all for totally different reasons because they are all totally different kinds of stories and I think that each did what it was trying to do very well. I think it's a very exciting time to be a Star Wars fan!
Yes, it was all collected and published later.
That looks like the Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide.
amazon posted an excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Into-Void-Star-Wars-Dawn/dp/0345541936
Here's the amazon link.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1477805982/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
https://www.amazon.com/Thrawn-Alliances-Star-Wars/dp/052548048X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536972456&sr=8-1&keywords=thrawn+alliances&dpID=41qHwBbt4KL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
https://www.amazon.com/Jedi-Search-Academy-Kevin-Anderson/dp/0553408089/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
This here shows there's both a paperback and mass market paperback edition. The first I presume to be trade version, otherwise why would it be there?
read Aftermath
They came in a box set that my Ex got me for Christmas, I think they're from 2014
https://www.amazon.de/Harry-Potter-Collection-Joanne-Rowling/dp/1408856778/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1KBUMXR8KVPFT&keywords=harry+potter+b%C3%BCcher+englisch&qid=1571857524&sprefix=harry+potter+b%C3%BCcher%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1
I actually just bought this book today: Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire. It has Tarkin, another novel called A New Dawn, and three short stories connecting them.