Star Wars: A New Dawn: Star Wars (Hardcover)

from skip_wiley

A New Dawn: New and old territory with just a touch of familiarity True to its title, A New Dawn blazes nothing but new territory. Though the surroundings and trappings of the Star Wars universe are mostly still in place - very little about this book feels welcoming to a veteran Star Wars readers...

from JLMess

A very strong start that dwindles throughout the book. Rather than building to a climax, the story starts string and became more boring to me as it continued. I did enjoy the characters and the fact that we have a Star Wars book without a single lightsaber ignition. The book works great as an int...

from tapestry100

Overall, I was a little disappointed in this book. As the book that I felt was being pushed as the new kick off of the streamlined canon, and the introduction to the Rebels TV series, I was expecting a story that brought the main characters of the show together and was instead given a story about...

from stefferoo

Like many Star Wars fans, I was initially disappointed by the news earlier this year that Lucasfilm has pretty much nuked most of the franchise's Expanded Universe, declaring all of it as no longer official canon. But after some thinking, I've come to terms with it and now actually believe that i...

from JonathanCrites

The first foray into the new EU, this effort was more of the same in terms of tone of the old EU, but different in its Dark Times story continuity. As a prequel, it was ok, I actually liked many of the characters, even if they were somewhat stock archetypes.