Star Wars Book Club discussion

Started this two days ago. Has a real Lost Stars vibe to it. Since I haven't been to the "real" Galaxy's Edge yet, I have to wonder what things mentioned in the book are locations at the theme park.

So far, I'm enjoying getting to learn a little bit about Batuu!

Desmond wrote: "Started this two days ago. Has a real Lost Stars vibe to it. Since I haven't been to the "real" Galaxy's Edge yet, I have to wonder what things mentioned in the book are locations at the theme park..."

I haven't been to Galaxy's Edge yet, but I recognized a lot of the flora and fauna from my Black Spire Outpost Cookbook I got for Christmas! Fried tip yip (which Jules eats in the book) and puffer pig are recipes in the book, as well as golden lichen and ronto wraps. I haven't had the occassion to try every recipe in the book, but I can tell you the recipes that I have tried are pretty legit; like the people who designed the recipes and wrote the fun "historical" tidbits (Xizor salad!!) were really into what they were doing and had fun making the book. I know this is off topic but I know a lot of these foods and drinks are served at the theme park (probably much better, albeit way more expensive, than what I can make at home!)

I'm about halfway through the book and would love to come back here and discuss it more. I'm not sure what to think about. I don't really love YA typically... enjoying this one way more than the Force Collector.

That's pretty awesome. I'll have to check out that cookbook.

Finished the book today. I really enjoyed it. I recommend you read it!

I was not particularly impressed with this book. I thought it had good information and I liked some of the cameos/namedrops and diversity of alien races in the book. The main thread of the story felt like it just dragged on and on. Every little bit of action had to be sandwiched between Izzy's doubts and insecurities and feelings about Jules.. then Jules' doubts and insecurities and feelings about Izzy.
The book also seemed poorly edited. There were several sentences that seemed out of place, like a whole paragraph had been edited out which left a sentence dangling in the next paragraph with no prior reference.
I get that part of my lack of enjoyment is due to it being a young adult novel, but not all young adult novels have to be this low of a caliber.
I don't regret reading it, and I am glad that more Star Wars novels exist and if this book helps hook one young person into the franchise, it's all worth it. Just not my cup of tea and I'm left craving some better quality literature.

Heather wrote: "I was not particularly impressed with this book. I thought it had good information and I liked some of the cameos/namedrops and diversity of alien races in the book. The main thread of the story fe..."
I get that. There was this constant back and forth of them having trouble dealing with their feelings with one another. Didn't feel like it dragged to me too much, though I was glad when the story finally got to the point after their "swim" and they had solidfied their feelings in the story.

This was surprisingly entertaining. Zoraida Córdova did an amazing job with this. It was easy to read and had a nice story with likeable characters.

Wow! I am surprised by your comments. I read it when it came out and I gave it a decent score for my podcast but it wasn't the best Star Wars book I've read. Honestly, it didn't really felt like a Star Wars book in my opinion.