I feel like Dark Disciple probably had one of the most impactful stories too. Probably because it was directly lifted from a clone wars arc they didn't get to.
completely completely agree. Dark Disciple is a perfect wrap up to Ventress's story with so many amazing moments and a very cool story. It would be amazing for it to one day be animated. I felt like I was watching a clone wars arc while reading it.
Let’s not forget Tarkin! I feel they they have done a lot of good with the books surrounding the villains. Also Alphabet squadron is my new favorite book as well.
I want him to make a Palpatine/Snoke book in the same vein he did Dartn Plagueis. From like the Empire era to TROS. Explaining just what exactly was going on.
Luceno would definitely be perfect for exploring and explaining the whole Palpatine family thing both in the time of the original trilogy and the sequel one. I feel like such a book could actually elevate the movie if done correctly.
Major Zuma Amazing idea! I’m on board with that. I’m so ready for a new James Luceno novel. He is my favorite author. His books are so literate and deep in world-building and lore. Catalyst and Tarkin were my favorite novels of Phase One.
I think the books are better than people give them credit for. Big, epic stories don't equate quality. Thematic, character-defining stories are more impactful to me and also make me view the movies/shows differently.
I was wondering, during the Republic era, who funded the Jedi Order? For there Food, clothes, ships and fuel, since I could see them being funded by the Republic under the Military budget in the Clone Wars, however before they were Generals who did? Do you think perhaps the Republic had a separate Jedi fund that came from taxes or did it fall under some sort of Government branch?
Mortdecai The Senate utilized them even before the Clone Wars, so I believe funding came from the senate. They were pretty stable prior to the events of Ep. 2.
Mortdecai they got funding from the Senate and republic as a whole. But as you stated, even more so when they adopted a military presence. Similar to really any institution in a country, getting federal funding.
I really like organizing Star Wars into "phases". It keeps things organized, and helps with finding stories people might have missed. Thank you for making these videos!
I've only read a handful of books in the new cannon those being: Dark Disciple, Ahsoka, Heir to the Jedi, Lords of the Sith, The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi. Despite Ahsoka possibly being my favorite SW character I thought the book was only ok, but a must read if you love Ahsoka like I do. Dark Disciple is some of my favorite SW content period. It's heavy on the force and it covers my favorite era being the clone wars. It's an excellent story about Quinlan Vos & Asajj Ventress. I quite liked Heir to the Jedi. I wouldn't call it mandatory reading but I thought we got a great look into Luke's mind and development between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. I also enjoyed the first person perspective. That's my take. Just remembered that I also read Lords of the Sith. It's a super dope book taking place shortly after Revenge of the Sith. When the Twileks and Riloth almost got the best of Vader and Sideous. I would have loved to see this as a movie. Read it!
I agree with you on the Ahsoka book a must read if you love Ahsoka but the book doesn’t have much action. Haven’t read the dark disciple yet but am looking forward to reading it.
I’ve been having a great time with the SW books released over the past few years, my favourites have been: 1. Lost Stars (the one I’ve reread the most) 2. Thrawn (my favourite character SW character) 3. Catalyst (my first book :) ) Looking forward for the next few years :D
I agree that the books work best when they’re not tied into other material like a movie. That being said, I think my favs of this “Phase” have been (in no particular order) Lost Stars, Alphabet Squadron, Thrawn: Alliances, Master & Apprentice, Resistance Reborn, Phasma, Bloodline, and Most Wanted. Very much looking forward to Project Luminous and also hoping they do a FACPOV for ESB as well!
I had never read a Star Wars book but recently picked up Thrawn since he was one of my favourite characters in Rebels and thought I'd give it a try. I'm not finished yet but I've enjoyed it so much and love how it's opened up a whole new realm of Star Wars for me. Learning so much more about some familiar names and being introduced to some new ones, it's just fantastic and I definitely want to read more.
When you do finish they actually made a 4 issue comic adaption of the book. It was able to mostly cover the main aspects of the book and help give faces to all of the new characters in it.
Lords of the Sith is the best book to have come out of the new canon imo. Master and Apprentice, Phasma and Catalyst really sucked me in too. Edit: Tarkin was amazing as well.
As a person who read quite a few Star Wars books, I would really recommend anything by Claudia Gray. Lost Stars and Bloodline have been some of my favorite books. I for one was really interested in finding out more about the New Republic, and how it worked, and how things got to the point that we see in The Force Awakens. I also really love Leia as a character, so Bloodline was really everything I could hope for. Inferno Squad really surprised me, I wasn't expecting much of it, but it was so interesting to see Star Wars from the point of view of Imperials who were undercover among rebel extremists. It was such a gray cast of characters and I loved it. The Thrawn books are also awesome. They made me fall in love with him as a character and, even though he was an Imperial Grand Admiral, they made me 100% root for him to win, always. Lords of the Sith was good to get into Vader's psyche, and see that the transition from Anakin to Vader was not as sudden as the movies make it seem. By the time we see Vader in LotS, he still has some of Anakin in him. For anyone who has read these books, played the games, and read the comics, Resistance Reborn is a must-read. It features characters from the Aftermath trilogy, from Bloodline, from the Poe Dameron comics, from Inferno Squad and the Battlefront II videogame - and plus all the heroes from the sequel trilogy after The Last Jedi and its really fun to read.
It still fits in canon. It hasn’t been overwritten by anything in canon the way post-Return of the Jedi stories have. The Legends banner is just a classification that doesn’t apply equally to everything written.
I think part of me will always be sad that we probably won't ever get a big, important book series like The New Jedi Order in canon. With that said, there have been some really great canon books and I'm excited for what's to come.
I still haven’t gotten very far into new Canon books but I’m slowly working my way in. So far I’ve read Lords of the Sith and have begun Tarkin and I still have Dark Disciple and the first Aftermath book sitting in my shelf.
I haven't read too many yet but TRoS revived my interest. Combine that with the high expectations I have for the Mandalorian and TCW's return, I'm planning on reading a *lot* more in the future. I'm probably checking out the manga adaptation of Lost Stars next. I've only read: - Catalyst - Twilight Company - Aftermath (never finished, gonna try again) - Bloodlines - Tarkin (never finished, too slow for me)
I've also had to upturn my idea of YA over the last couple years and I've been doing my best to champion several YA books to friends. Also, Claudia Gray is my favorite SW author by far. Her books are TOO GOOD.
Can you make a video listing EVERY CANON Star Wars books, no UA-camr that I can find has made a current one and I just don’t know what all the books are, and I want to read them all
I haven't read many SW novels, but Catalyst and From a Certain POV are my favourites. I'm glad I read Catalyst before Rogue One, it definitely enhanced my enjoyment of the film (I still wish we had more Lyra tho)
I’ve been pretty pleased with most of the books, although I definitely miss the heart and impact legends novels used to have. I got a top 5: 1. Phasma 2. Thrawn 3. Lost Stars 4. Tarkin 5. Battlefront: Twilight Company
I totally agree with you on the books. When you start reading books, we lose yourself in the Star Wars world. I never want stop reading until the end. I learn to so much about Star Wars and about myself in all the books I read.
My favourites from the new canon are: Dark Disciple, Catalyst, A New Dawn, Phasma and Bloodline. All these are absolutely wonderful in very very different ways.
Claudia Grey and Lost Stars really got me back into giving YA novels a chance after the years where YA novels are turned into edgy films. EDIT: I personally think From a Certain Point of View is the best launching pad for anyone trying to get intlo Star Wars novels. These short stories are exactly what the canon novels are for now: supplementary reading for the wider galaxy. Right now, most novels are told from the perspective of people who aren't in the films, the stories are more personal in nature and written by so many different people with different writing styles.
I think the difference is in the 90s many of the books were trying to tell a SW movie level experience in prose because there weren’t any new films. Now we have more films and series then we could ask for and the books don’t fill the same massive gap in world building that existed prior.
Yeah if Lucas had never decided to go on significantly long breaks the expanded material in the old EU would have served the same role that it does now.
The Empire Strikes Back version of From a Certain Point of View must be titled “From Another Point of View” which shall be followed by “From Yet Another Point of View”...I have spoken
I'm wondering if we'll get books or comics based on characters like Kuiil. I think his story (of being a slave for over 3 human lifetimes) there are some interesting stuff I think we can get from his experiences.
I’ve only read a few of the books but my favorite was Lost Stars by far. Although Bloodline is excellent and a wonderful expansion for the sequel trilogy
Kaden Downs I would love a sequel to Bloodline that picks up right in that hangar when Leia forms the Resistance at the end of Bloodline showing the very beginnings of the Resistance.
sad it was not a longer vid. thanks for the review, Alex. I'm not so proficient in english to read them without translate and its very hard to find most of them around here. have a great 2020
Claudia Gray has been a revelation and is the best new Star Wars author. So many others (Johnston, Golden, Wendig, etc) have been great, but she's easily the best of the new ones and I hope she keeps writing Star Wars for a long time to come. Aftermath gave a satisfying ending to the Galactic Civil War and gave me some new characters to fall in love with. It was great reading Zahn again and I can't wait to read his new Thrawn trilogy. I do agree that I do want more meaningful books, but I'm not sure that's going to happen in Disney's Star Wars universe. If there's one thing that I truly wish would happen in book form is that Legends is reborn and continues that universe. Marvel and DC are constantly writing stories in different universes, Star Wars can do it to. I think it was the right decision by Disney to make their own universe and even retire Legends for a time so the focus could be on their new stories, but I do think it's time to revive it. That way, books in the new universe could continue to support the movies and games, while books in Legends could tell these grand, sweeping stories that so many of us grew up with in the 90s and early 2000s.
As someone who never got into the EU and is only now coming into supplemental stories with new canon, I 100% agree with your statements about the books. I have LOVED a lot of the stories we got (Bloodline in particular but also Phasma and Alphabet Squadron) but I want to experience getting the next book in a longrunning series that I've been with for ages. I'm optimistic that Alphabet Squadron will be a good first stab at that sort of thing since it's not directly related to any of the movies and isn't doing any "Journey to..." work but it's also not the X-Wing series that I've heard so much about. I really hope that since the Skywalker Saga is ACTUALLY OVER the books will have the room they need to really breathe and get weird with it.
Yeah I have enjoyed the books so far and kind of like the gap filling role they have had thus far but I totally get why some would be a little frustrated with them not really pushing things forward that much. I kind of got a little frustrated with Resistance Reborn for that reason. Even though it had a massive amount of connections and it indeed was practically a love letter to the canon junkies. It was also at the same time one of the most vague stories we have gotten thus far in my opinion. It was clear that Rebecca Roanhorse didn't know what was going to be in the movie and was thus setting up things so the book couldn't contradict anything that would potentially happen in TROS. I have enjoyed most of them though and Claudia Gray's books have probably been my favorites.
Rae Carson confirmed he died and the ship is destroyed. She'll most likely expand on that scene by revealing that it was destroyed on ground impact after free falling.
I've only read a few Legends books but The Darth Bane trilogy really stands out. Mostly because of the massive effect it has on the galaxy as a whole, especially the first one. So I'm waiting for the new EU to give me something like that.
Hello! I have some questions. Is the TROS novellization worth it's price? Should I buy it? Or buy another book? I mean, I saw TROS, I liked it very much, but it have some things that are empty to me. Thank you for the answer!
I've always wanted to get stuck into reading the novels but I honestly don't know where to start. Is there is a novel order like the films or some other order?
What you can do is go to the Del Rey Wookieepedia page and they have all the books listed in order of which they came out. They all do kind of jump around the timeline and it really depends on what era you are most interested in. The Endor to Jakku time period is the era in which the novel series they have so far are set. Wendig's series is a little mixed but the Alphabet Squadron series is going on right now and has had only one book out so far and people seem to really like it thus far.
I've always stuck to just the movies and tv shows, but I decided to give a couple of the more recent books a read. Bloodline did a great job of laying the groundwork for the Sequel Trilogy and fleshing out the New Republic. I was disappointed with Ahsoka. I love the character, but the book felt shallow to me and the only thing it accomplished was explaining why Ahsoka's new lightsabers are white.
I've returned to SW books after many years absence. Really enjoyed Revan and Bane again along with many others but the choices are so vast. I have very poor eyesight in my old age and audiobooks/TTS are my savior. Searching and reading page after page of book descriptions on endless websites gives me such headaches I decided to just ask someone a question. Setting aside the new trilogy books, what are some books that are stand alone reads? New Jedi names that came and went with a single book? Is there a term for those kind? Sorry to be so wordy :)
Alex, I'm currently reading through James S.A. Corey's Expanse books. I just found out that they wrote a Star Wars book called Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion: Honor Among Thieves. Have you happened to read it, and if so what are your thoughts on it? I've read through the Darth Bane books and some of the X-Wing books based on your recommendations. Also, on speaking of the X-Wing books, are the later books that aren't written by Michael Stackpole as entertaining as the one's that he wrote?
@@StarWarsExplained Possibly. I'm aware that it's a very subjective opinion. And I know the books definitely have flaws. I just always have fun going back through them, usually on Audible (Star Wars Audiobooks are great, by the way.)
QNA: why would droids like IG-88 or IG-11 become bounty hunters? What would a droid pay for anyway? Who in this universe would sell something to a droid?
Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company is one of my favorite star wars books in the new trilogy, tied with Alphabet squadron...I just love the normal people stories. Gimmie the soldiers, pilots, and admirals any day!
I am okay with the books taking a sideline to more movies and shows since those are the things I'm focusing on with Star Wars. Nothing against people that read, I just never got into it because I just never did. It was always made into a chore for me in school, and part of it is also because there were never any books that grabbed my attention, I'm sure a Star Wars one would actually do that, but you're not exactly going to be asked to explore the concepts of a Star Wars book as a class assignment. Movies and shows, those are for me, and I haven't been completely offput and disappointed yet, even the silly, canon gray, LEGO shows have been surprisingly entertaining.
I find it easy to find the Canonical Del Rey books, however I have troubles finding all the YA books online. Anyone have suggestions for search parameters? I intend to buy from local books stores but I need to create a list to know what to look and ask for.
It means a lot to me that several authors aren’t afraid to include gay and bi/pan characters in their novels, especially since the most we’ve gotten on the big screen is a two-second kiss, between two characters most of us couldn’t name with a gun to our head, that can be easily cut out for release in more homophobic countries.
Richard Chism would recommend the new Thrawn Trilogy. I’ve been struggling getting through the third book, but the first two are top form for Star Wars and really remind me of the era before Disney.
Richard, the book about Kanan and Hera is really good. It's called A New Dawn. And Tarkin is really good as well. EDIT: Also Master and Apprentice is phenomenal as well. It made me appreciate The Phantom of Menace even more.
I feel like Dark Disciple probably had one of the most impactful stories too. Probably because it was directly lifted from a clone wars arc they didn't get to.
I just wish they could've animated it too.
completely completely agree. Dark Disciple is a perfect wrap up to Ventress's story with so many amazing moments and a very cool story. It would be amazing for it to one day be animated. I felt like I was watching a clone wars arc while reading it.
I thought that Filoni said that in season seven they were gonna do an arc like that ?
Let’s not forget Tarkin! I feel they they have done a lot of good with the books surrounding the villains. Also Alphabet squadron is my new favorite book as well.
Oh yeah!!! That book was one of my favorite book of the new canon.
Lords of the Sith and Tarkin are easily my favorite.
Is Alphabet Squadron in paperback anywhere?
Lost Stars is one of my fav books ever period
I just read it a couple of months ago. It was amazing!
I think it might be my all time favourite.
It’s amazing. It was almost orgasmic reading that book, lol.
Can’t fault it.
I would say Bloodlines is not too far away too.
Agreed
I find the lack of James Luceno in this video disturbing
I want him to make a Palpatine/Snoke book in the same vein he did Dartn Plagueis. From like the Empire era to TROS. Explaining just what exactly was going on.
Luceno would definitely be perfect for exploring and explaining the whole Palpatine family thing both in the time of the original trilogy and the sequel one. I feel like such a book could actually elevate the movie if done correctly.
Major Zuma Amazing idea! I’m on board with that. I’m so ready for a new James Luceno novel. He is my favorite author. His books are so literate and deep in world-building and lore. Catalyst and Tarkin were my favorite novels of Phase One.
@@Major98 PLEASE THIS. Darth Plagueis is my favorite Star Wars book hands down, imagine the possibilities that Luceno could give us here.
@@Major98 that would be sooo awesome. For all we know, he could be working on such a novel right now, and just that thought alone makes me giddy
I think the books are better than people give them credit for. Big, epic stories don't equate quality. Thematic, character-defining stories are more impactful to me and also make me view the movies/shows differently.
I was wondering, during the Republic era, who funded the Jedi Order? For there Food, clothes, ships and fuel, since I could see them being funded by the Republic under the Military budget in the Clone Wars, however before they were Generals who did? Do you think perhaps the Republic had a separate Jedi fund that came from taxes or did it fall under some sort of Government branch?
Mortdecai The Senate utilized them even before the Clone Wars, so I believe funding came from the senate. They were pretty stable prior to the events of Ep. 2.
@@frankywolfe3637 Indeed, they did serve countless times the Chancellor and Senate, however which branch did they fall under?
Mortdecai they got funding from the Senate and republic as a whole. But as you stated, even more so when they adopted a military presence. Similar to really any institution in a country, getting federal funding.
Republic Credits are no good out here. I need something more real..
Very insteresting question.
I really like organizing Star Wars into "phases". It keeps things organized, and helps with finding stories people might have missed. Thank you for making these videos!
Loving this series - please make this an annual thing!
Greetings from Germany! :)
I loved all canon books, but my TOP3 is:
1. Alphabet Squadron
2. Lost Stars
3. Thrawn
Good list.
My top is
Bloodline
Thrawn
Dark Disciple
Exactly my top 3 too!
Oops forgot Catalyst.. that's way up there for me too!
Sounds like we'd have a lot to talk about lol
A New Dawn
Thrawn
Twilight Company
I really need to give Alphabet Squadron a go. I heard Hera has a role in it.
I've only read a handful of books in the new cannon those being: Dark Disciple, Ahsoka, Heir to the Jedi, Lords of the Sith, The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi.
Despite Ahsoka possibly being my favorite SW character I thought the book was only ok, but a must read if you love Ahsoka like I do.
Dark Disciple is some of my favorite SW content period. It's heavy on the force and it covers my favorite era being the clone wars. It's an excellent story about Quinlan Vos & Asajj Ventress.
I quite liked Heir to the Jedi. I wouldn't call it mandatory reading but I thought we got a great look into Luke's mind and development between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. I also enjoyed the first person perspective.
That's my take.
Just remembered that I also read Lords of the Sith. It's a super dope book taking place shortly after Revenge of the Sith. When the Twileks and Riloth almost got the best of Vader and Sideous. I would have loved to see this as a movie. Read it!
I agree with you on the Ahsoka book a must read if you love Ahsoka but the book doesn’t have much action. Haven’t read the dark disciple yet but am looking forward to reading it.
@@landonglick7174 Skip Dark Disciple, it's pretty much a bland adaptation of the Vos's story from the Republic/Clone Wars, so just read those.
Just got the Ahsoka book in the mail today, stoked to start reading!
Leia: Princess of Alderaan. is one of if not my favorite star wars book I loved the story, the characters, and the message
My favourites so far:
1. Lost Stars
2. Dark Disciple
3. Alphabet Squadron
I’ve been having a great time with the SW books released over the past few years, my favourites have been:
1. Lost Stars (the one I’ve reread the most)
2. Thrawn (my favourite character SW character)
3. Catalyst (my first book :) )
Looking forward for the next few years :D
I agree that the books work best when they’re not tied into other material like a movie. That being said, I think my favs of this “Phase” have been (in no particular order) Lost Stars, Alphabet Squadron, Thrawn: Alliances, Master & Apprentice, Resistance Reborn, Phasma, Bloodline, and Most Wanted. Very much looking forward to Project Luminous and also hoping they do a FACPOV for ESB as well!
Yeah alphabet squadron is awesome and that TIE-in comicbook is really good too.
I had never read a Star Wars book but recently picked up Thrawn since he was one of my favourite characters in Rebels and thought I'd give it a try. I'm not finished yet but I've enjoyed it so much and love how it's opened up a whole new realm of Star Wars for me. Learning so much more about some familiar names and being introduced to some new ones, it's just fantastic and I definitely want to read more.
When you do finish they actually made a 4 issue comic adaption of the book. It was able to mostly cover the main aspects of the book and help give faces to all of the new characters in it.
Lords of the Sith is the best book to have come out of the new canon imo.
Master and Apprentice, Phasma and Catalyst really sucked me in too.
Edit: Tarkin was amazing as well.
As a person who read quite a few Star Wars books, I would really recommend anything by Claudia Gray. Lost Stars and Bloodline have been some of my favorite books.
I for one was really interested in finding out more about the New Republic, and how it worked, and how things got to the point that we see in The Force Awakens. I also really love Leia as a character, so Bloodline was really everything I could hope for.
Inferno Squad really surprised me, I wasn't expecting much of it, but it was so interesting to see Star Wars from the point of view of Imperials who were undercover among rebel extremists. It was such a gray cast of characters and I loved it.
The Thrawn books are also awesome. They made me fall in love with him as a character and, even though he was an Imperial Grand Admiral, they made me 100% root for him to win, always.
Lords of the Sith was good to get into Vader's psyche, and see that the transition from Anakin to Vader was not as sudden as the movies make it seem. By the time we see Vader in LotS, he still has some of Anakin in him.
For anyone who has read these books, played the games, and read the comics, Resistance Reborn is a must-read. It features characters from the Aftermath trilogy, from Bloodline, from the Poe Dameron comics, from Inferno Squad and the Battlefront II videogame - and plus all the heroes from the sequel trilogy after The Last Jedi and its really fun to read.
Last shot was awesome, Aftermath was great to
My top 5 Star Wars books
1. Lost Stars
2. From a Certain Point of View
3. Alphabet Squadron
4. Leia: Princess of Alderran
5. Dark Disciple
The old Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon young adult series was so good, miss that.
AFchris77 agreed I’m a new canon guy but I read those from my library and those r amazing.
Petition to make the Darth Plagueis book canon again
Agreed on that point.
Stringer13ell it’s next in my list to read so I don’t know what you mean by that yet, but I will soon
It still fits in canon. It hasn’t been overwritten by anything in canon the way post-Return of the Jedi stories have. The Legends banner is just a classification that doesn’t apply equally to everything written.
Stringer13ell I read Master and Apprentice too and I think both stories fit together. I don’t recall Dooku’s motivations being different.
Stringer13ell what were the circumstances in plagueis?
Will you do certain reference books like *Scum and Villainy* , vaults like *The Rebel Files* and some books like *Reys Survival Guide* ?
I think part of me will always be sad that we probably won't ever get a big, important book series like The New Jedi Order in canon. With that said, there have been some really great canon books and I'm excited for what's to come.
I still haven’t gotten very far into new Canon books but I’m slowly working my way in. So far I’ve read Lords of the Sith and have begun Tarkin and I still have Dark Disciple and the first Aftermath book sitting in my shelf.
I haven't read too many yet but TRoS revived my interest. Combine that with the high expectations I have for the Mandalorian and TCW's return, I'm planning on reading a *lot* more in the future. I'm probably checking out the manga adaptation of Lost Stars next.
I've only read:
- Catalyst
- Twilight Company
- Aftermath (never finished, gonna try again)
- Bloodlines
- Tarkin (never finished, too slow for me)
I've also had to upturn my idea of YA over the last couple years and I've been doing my best to champion several YA books to friends. Also, Claudia Gray is my favorite SW author by far. Her books are TOO GOOD.
Can you make a video listing EVERY CANON Star Wars books, no UA-camr that I can find has made a current one and I just don’t know what all the books are, and I want to read them all
I haven't read many SW novels, but Catalyst and From a Certain POV are my favourites. I'm glad I read Catalyst before Rogue One, it definitely enhanced my enjoyment of the film (I still wish we had more Lyra tho)
I’ve been pretty pleased with most of the books, although I definitely miss the heart and impact legends novels used to have. I got a top 5:
1. Phasma
2. Thrawn
3. Lost Stars
4. Tarkin
5. Battlefront: Twilight Company
I totally agree with you on the books. When you start reading books, we lose yourself in the Star Wars world. I never want stop reading until the end. I learn to so much about Star Wars and about myself in all the books I read.
My favourites from the new canon are: Dark Disciple, Catalyst, A New Dawn, Phasma and Bloodline. All these are absolutely wonderful in very very different ways.
Claudia Grey and Lost Stars really got me back into giving YA novels a chance after the years where YA novels are turned into edgy films.
EDIT: I personally think From a Certain Point of View is the best launching pad for anyone trying to get intlo Star Wars novels. These short stories are exactly what the canon novels are for now: supplementary reading for the wider galaxy.
Right now, most novels are told from the perspective of people who aren't in the films, the stories are more personal in nature and written by so many different people with different writing styles.
Great video Alex 🙂
Lost Stars really is SOOO good!
I think the difference is in the 90s many of the books were trying to tell a SW movie level experience in prose because there weren’t any new films.
Now we have more films and series then we could ask for and the books don’t fill the same massive gap in world building that existed prior.
Yeah if Lucas had never decided to go on significantly long breaks the expanded material in the old EU would have served the same role that it does now.
The Empire Strikes Back version of From a Certain Point of View must be titled “From Another Point of View” which shall be followed by “From Yet Another Point of View”...I have spoken
Like most people I haven't read loads of the books but enjoyed the following 3:-
A new Dawn
Moving Target
Bloodline
I'm wondering if we'll get books or comics based on characters like Kuiil. I think his story (of being a slave for over 3 human lifetimes) there are some interesting stuff I think we can get from his experiences.
I’m with you about the Legends books vs Canon, Young Adult, and Thrawn being one of my favorites!
And I’m currently reading Alphabet Squadron!
Loving all of your content! You’re getting me excited about post-TROS Star Wars
I’ve only read a few of the books but my favorite was Lost Stars by far. Although Bloodline is excellent and a wonderful expansion for the sequel trilogy
Kaden Downs I would love a sequel to Bloodline that picks up right in that hangar when Leia forms the Resistance at the end of Bloodline showing the very beginnings of the Resistance.
sad it was not a longer vid. thanks for the review, Alex. I'm not so proficient in english to read them without translate and its very hard to find most of them around here. have a great 2020
I haven’t read many Star Wars books. I asked my Mom for the Canon Thrawn trilogy.
Claudia Gray has been a revelation and is the best new Star Wars author. So many others (Johnston, Golden, Wendig, etc) have been great, but she's easily the best of the new ones and I hope she keeps writing Star Wars for a long time to come. Aftermath gave a satisfying ending to the Galactic Civil War and gave me some new characters to fall in love with. It was great reading Zahn again and I can't wait to read his new Thrawn trilogy.
I do agree that I do want more meaningful books, but I'm not sure that's going to happen in Disney's Star Wars universe. If there's one thing that I truly wish would happen in book form is that Legends is reborn and continues that universe. Marvel and DC are constantly writing stories in different universes, Star Wars can do it to. I think it was the right decision by Disney to make their own universe and even retire Legends for a time so the focus could be on their new stories, but I do think it's time to revive it. That way, books in the new universe could continue to support the movies and games, while books in Legends could tell these grand, sweeping stories that so many of us grew up with in the 90s and early 2000s.
As someone who never got into the EU and is only now coming into supplemental stories with new canon, I 100% agree with your statements about the books. I have LOVED a lot of the stories we got (Bloodline in particular but also Phasma and Alphabet Squadron) but I want to experience getting the next book in a longrunning series that I've been with for ages. I'm optimistic that Alphabet Squadron will be a good first stab at that sort of thing since it's not directly related to any of the movies and isn't doing any "Journey to..." work but it's also not the X-Wing series that I've heard so much about. I really hope that since the Skywalker Saga is ACTUALLY OVER the books will have the room they need to really breathe and get weird with it.
Yeah I have enjoyed the books so far and kind of like the gap filling role they have had thus far but I totally get why some would be a little frustrated with them not really pushing things forward that much. I kind of got a little frustrated with Resistance Reborn for that reason. Even though it had a massive amount of connections and it indeed was practically a love letter to the canon junkies. It was also at the same time one of the most vague stories we have gotten thus far in my opinion. It was clear that Rebecca Roanhorse didn't know what was going to be in the movie and was thus setting up things so the book couldn't contradict anything that would potentially happen in TROS.
I have enjoyed most of them though and Claudia Gray's books have probably been my favorites.
Guys did Nien Nunb die along with the tantive IV?
Rae Carson confirmed he died and the ship is destroyed. She'll most likely expand on that scene by revealing that it was destroyed on ground impact after free falling.
Stuart Lugsden
I’m way too upset than I should be about this
Although I haven’t read them all yet. And I do have a lot that I like... gonna have to say that my favorite is Dark Disciple 🤩
I've only read a few Legends books but The Darth Bane trilogy really stands out. Mostly because of the massive effect it has on the galaxy as a whole, especially the first one. So I'm waiting for the new EU to give me something like that.
I kinda had the same feelings about YA. Thanks for giving me a reason to look at that classification differently
Oh this is cool. I've never gotten into the books. Seems like I should dive into it
You should! When I started, I quickly wished I had read them sooner.
Oh I love any of the stuff that has to do with Black Spire... Lost Stars is one of my favorite novels
Hello!
I have some questions. Is the TROS novellization worth it's price? Should I buy it? Or buy another book?
I mean, I saw TROS, I liked it very much, but it have some things that are empty to me.
Thank you for the answer!
I've found my reading experience has been much better after TROS. The clue hunting factor is removed and I can just enjoy them.
Master and Apprentice by Claudia is also AWESOME
Thanks, Alex! 📚
I've always wanted to get stuck into reading the novels but I honestly don't know where to start. Is there is a novel order like the films or some other order?
What you can do is go to the Del Rey Wookieepedia page and they have all the books listed in order of which they came out. They all do kind of jump around the timeline and it really depends on what era you are most interested in. The Endor to Jakku time period is the era in which the novel series they have so far are set. Wendig's series is a little mixed but the Alphabet Squadron series is going on right now and has had only one book out so far and people seem to really like it thus far.
Do note that the young adult books (often very good) aren't in the main novels interior page timelines.
Disney Canon feels more like a small town instead of a large galaxy
From A Certain Point Of View not the clone wars books
My three favorite books are lost stars, master and apprentice, dark disciple. Alphabet squadron and Ashoka are right behind
I find your lack of Master and Apprentice disturbing...
Currently reading it now, so good
I would love to see a video about the differences between Thrawn in legends and in canon.
Why read when you can instead listen to some sweet Klaud ASMR?
Yes. just yes.
why not both?
I've always stuck to just the movies and tv shows, but I decided to give a couple of the more recent books a read. Bloodline did a great job of laying the groundwork for the Sequel Trilogy and fleshing out the New Republic. I was disappointed with Ahsoka. I love the character, but the book felt shallow to me and the only thing it accomplished was explaining why Ahsoka's new lightsabers are white.
Isn’t there new Darth Vader comics coming out? Or are those old?
There is a new one coming.
But is it just continuing the old ones? Or is this a different time period
@@MayoMike10 It is set after Empire Strikes Back.
I've returned to SW books after many years absence. Really enjoyed Revan and Bane again along with many others but the choices are so vast. I have very poor eyesight in my old age and audiobooks/TTS are my savior. Searching and reading page after page of book descriptions on endless websites gives me such headaches I decided to just ask someone a question. Setting aside the new trilogy books, what are some books that are stand alone reads? New Jedi names that came and went with a single book? Is there a term for those kind? Sorry to be so wordy :)
my favorites were dark disciple (love clone wars era stuff), aftermath trilogy, and phasma
oh and ahsoka of course
Cool shirt. Where did you get it?
I really liked Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cobalt Squadron. Aftermath was great, Rebel Rising too.
Lords of the Sith and Tarkin not getting nearly enough love
Honestly I didn't love either of them. I think I'm in the minority there, it's just my taste.
Can jou make a video were the sith and the impire ficht in one army
Alex, I'm currently reading through James S.A. Corey's Expanse books. I just found out that they wrote a Star Wars book called Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion: Honor Among Thieves. Have you happened to read it, and if so what are your thoughts on it? I've read through the Darth Bane books and some of the X-Wing books based on your recommendations. Also, on speaking of the X-Wing books, are the later books that aren't written by Michael Stackpole as entertaining as the one's that he wrote?
Just ordered alphabet squadron after finishing the X- wing series
Current top ones
1Thrawn
2Lost stars
3thrawn alliances
The Aftermath Trilogy is my favorite thing Star Wars has ever put out.
Wow, are you open to telling me more about that?
@@StarWarsExplained Possibly. I'm aware that it's a very subjective opinion. And I know the books definitely have flaws. I just always have fun going back through them, usually on Audible (Star Wars Audiobooks are great, by the way.)
QNA: why would droids like IG-88 or IG-11 become bounty hunters? What would a droid pay for anyway? Who in this universe would sell something to a droid?
I believe its the programmer(s) of the droids that receive the rewards.
Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company is one of my favorite star wars books in the new trilogy, tied with Alphabet squadron...I just love the normal people stories. Gimmie the soldiers, pilots, and admirals any day!
Did you get hardback or paperback for Alphabet Squadron?
@@chrissonofpear1384 I audible all my star wars books now.
I am okay with the books taking a sideline to more movies and shows since those are the things I'm focusing on with Star Wars. Nothing against people that read, I just never got into it because I just never did. It was always made into a chore for me in school, and part of it is also because there were never any books that grabbed my attention, I'm sure a Star Wars one would actually do that, but you're not exactly going to be asked to explore the concepts of a Star Wars book as a class assignment. Movies and shows, those are for me, and I haven't been completely offput and disappointed yet, even the silly, canon gray, LEGO shows have been surprisingly entertaining.
A u i d o B o o k s
I think it's funny how his mic fills in the death star laser disc
I find it easy to find the Canonical Del Rey books, however I have troubles finding all the YA books online. Anyone have suggestions for search parameters? I intend to buy from local books stores but I need to create a list to know what to look and ask for.
I’ve read a lot of the books, and oddly enough, dooku was my favorite book.
Just waiting for Cinco de Mayo when the novels come out for
Thrawn 💙 & Queen Amidala 💖
Really wanted to get into the books. What r u guys recommendations
Which books of the new canon should I read and in what order?
I’ll always recommend Lost Stars, it’s a masterpiece. Legit my favourite non-film story in the entirety of Star Wars
Nice Video :)
Dark disciple is my fav
I really loved A New Dawn
I think it was a good phase for books and comics, my favorite so far are Bloodline, Lost Stars and resistance reborn.
my favorate so far is dark disiple
My favorite 3 are New Dawn, Dark Disciple and Thrawn
My fav is A New Dawn
Is Alphabet Squadron really worth it, esp. for a fan of the old X-Wing novels? I'm still on the fence on this one.
Do you think a Jedi would be able to lift Thor's 1st or 2nd hammer, Q&A?
On the whole, I actually prefer the YA Star Wars books. There really hasn't been a miss so far, and they're such easy reads.
Still playing catchup with the books. I do read a lot but just didn't want Star Wars to be the only thing I read.
It means a lot to me that several authors aren’t afraid to include gay and bi/pan characters in their novels, especially since the most we’ve gotten on the big screen is a two-second kiss, between two characters most of us couldn’t name with a gun to our head, that can be easily cut out for release in more homophobic countries.
where is my lost stars sequel disney
My favourite I think is bloodline
The only ones I’ve read so far are:
•Lost Stars
•Catalyst
•Ahsoka
•Dark Disciple
•Rebel Rising
I’m currently reading Aftermath and plan to read more.
Richard Chism would recommend the new Thrawn Trilogy. I’ve been struggling getting through the third book, but the first two are top form for Star Wars and really remind me of the era before Disney.
Blind Jedi yeah I heard it’s good. I’ll have to check it out.
Richard, the book about Kanan and Hera is really good. It's called A New Dawn. And Tarkin is really good as well.
EDIT: Also Master and Apprentice is phenomenal as well. It made me appreciate The Phantom of Menace even more.
Chance Edwards I’ll have to read those. I have them all but I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet.
I’ve finished Aftermath and I read Master and Apprentice and Tarkin. I’m currently reading A New Dawn
I'm still waiting for a Lost Stars sequel.
It will probably happen someday as it was a very popular YA book for them.
Just thought of this, but does anyone else remember the Origami Yoda books? I know they're not canon or legends, but they're still pretty funny.