Kristin Baver

This is a nice gift to give to an individual who would love to understand Star Wars or who would like to become a fan. A veteran Star Wars fan will feel the nostalgia between these pages.

This is 292 pages of all nine films (including the Clone Wars TV series) explaining the Skywalker dynasty.

The first meeting of the chosen one up until the redemption his grandson brought to the galaxy.

It shows indept of the turning of Anakin to the dark side by Sheev Palpatine. How he had been manipulated that he even doubted the love of his life. Padme was always his light.

I was intrigued and kept turning the pages, even in the light glimpse of the twins' lives between the original trilogy and how everything fitted in like puzzle pieces.

I was amazed at how little the sequel trilogy meant anything in this dynasty, or is it just me?… (altro)

I have been following the High Republic project and as it progresses I am finding my interest waning, and this book does little to rejuvenate it. I guess I was hoping to get more of a visual sense of what the High Republic was like, but this did not scratch that itch. For one thing, most of the art was already made publicly available. For another, a lot of the art was rudimentary sketches made by artist Iain McCaig. And yet another, there are a few pages of sketches of background characters--which I liked--but the text did not even try to rekindle my memory of these characters.

Probably the most interesting artistic choice made was the voice actor Marc Thompson's choice to make the big baddie have a soft voice, like he was a precocious adolescent or something. I thought that choice was more illuminating about the character than anything visual comic book artists have put together, but there is nothing on that here.… (altro)