July 3rd, 20213149This review of Star Wars The High Republic: The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott may contain minor spoilers. The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott is the follow up to Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, the book that kicked off The High Republic era of storytelling. Light of the Jedi had to accomplish a lot in the way of world-building and...
July 3rd, 20212131This Review of Star Wars The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower may contain minor spoilers. The second wave of The High Republic is here, kicking off with Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older and The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott. Race to Crashpoint Tower, the follow-up to A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland, is geared...
July 28th, 20200136The final entry in Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars series, The Merry Rise of Skywalker, is released today and is the final chapter of Doescher's take on the Skywalker saga. Like the previous eight iterations of the New York Time's Best Selling author's interpretation of Star Wars, the book converts Star Wars into...
June 23rd, 2020161This 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, 20179131Excited 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, 2017078The 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, 20170227With 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, 2016183 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, 20160101 Star 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, 20160102 Fortunately 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...
