June 23rd, 202024This a review of the book and audiobook for Star Wars Shadow Fall: An Alphabet Squadron Novel by Alexander Freed. The audio is read by Carol Monda. There may be minor spoilers.
In Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, author Alexander Freed introduced a disparate group of characters brought together and teamed up for a common purpose -- To find...
September 26th, 2017980Excited to read the two latest novels in the Star Wars mythology, but trying to figure out how to fit them into your schedule? Join Dan Z at the beginning of each episode of Coffee With Kenobi as he reads and over the next two months, and discusses them a few chapters a time. Here's the reading schedule:September 28th:...
May 2nd, 2017070The good 'ol days; that's one of the things many of us reminisce about when discussing classic Star Wars memories and collectibles. Abrams' latest, the , helps add to our recollections with the first collection of vintage Topps stickers in one book. With more than 250 stickers to choose from, (with every one scanned from the originals)...
May 2nd, 20170152With the release of Rogue One came a bevy of new characters in the Star Wars universe. Two of the breakout stars of the popular film, Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus, are featured in Greg Rucka's , and are more fully formed as dynamic characters in the new book. Rucka beautifully shifts the third person narrative from each main...
November 29th, 2016168 I have been co-hosting the Legends Library Podcast on the Coffee With Kenobi Network for two years now. The Legends timeline is completely immersive for me, but each time a new canon book is released it gives me the opportunity to swim to the surface, pop my head up and see what adventures our heroes both new and old are experiencing....
August 24th, 2016080Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History, Updated Edition by Daniel Wallace and Pablo Hidalgo is a revised edition of the original visual history (originally published in October of 2012). Naturally, additional entries have been crafted to reflect what has transpired in the Star Wars universe since 2012, with additional emphasis...
July 23rd, 2016086Fortunately for me, Dan Z has provided a wonderful review of Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath: Life Debt, which you can read here. That leaves my task at hand to discuss Marc Thompson’s reading of this novel and the production value of the audiobook itself. In full disclosure, I have not listened to an audiobook in many years, so this...
July 21st, 2016361Aftermath: Life Debt is the second novel in Chuck Wendig's post Return of the Jedi trilogy, which continues the story of what happened to the galaxy once the second Death Star was destroyed by Lando Calrissian and the Rebel Alliance. As with the first novel, Aftermath, Life Debt follows the exploits of Norra Wexley and her assortment...
June 21st, 2016087As if Star Wars couldn't get more clever, Disney Lucasfilm Press has released Star Wars ABC-3PO Alphabet Book, by Calliope Glass and Caitlin Kennedy, with illustrations by Katie Cook, and it is beyond charming. The forty-eight page book is geared towards children ages 4-8, and is an absolute delight to share with your children. You...
May 3rd, 2016466Claudia Gray brings her gifted pen back to the Star Wars universe with the much-anticipated book, Bloodline. The Princess Leia centered novel focuses on her role as a significant and powerful senator in the New Republic, and takes place years before The Force Awakens. Bloodline manages to do something exquisite and rare: it...
