Star Wars: Thrawn Book Review

Star Wars: Thrawn Book Review
As some of you might know I'm very into Star Wars. I especially like reading star wars novels, such as the  most recent book, Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. Thrawn is based off of the former Legends(not in the canon) character that recently appeared on the animated series, Rebels.

The original Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

But onto the book. Thrawn explores the origin story and rise through the empire of Mitth'raw'nuruodo an alien and spectacular strategist from the unknown regions. He is discriminated for this because of the disdain for aliens in the empire after they fought them in the clone wars. They handle that aspect very well and shows a lot about Thrawn. Thrawn's aide, Eli Vanto is also from the unknown regions aka wild space and works very well with Thrawn and feels more human than just an
evil imperial.

One of Thrawn's deductions on Rebels

 There is a side story in this book that stars Arihanda Price but the story is well written and connects a lot to the main story unlike other Star Wars books. Price's arc is very interesting she is power-hungry at that start but not necessarily evil but the quest to get and maintain power makes her evil something that could be equated to Anakin's story. The antagonist of the book is a rebel agent codenamed Nightswan that is a tactical master and the only character that can rival Thrawn. He is well written and complex and a great character for the early more radical beginnings of the rebellion across the galaxy.

Thrawn studies art to learn about his adversaries 

The story is written brilliantly and is a great introduction or reintroduction to Thrawn. The only problem with the book would be that in the first chapters when first meeting with Thrawn to imperials, Thrawn kills some Imperial people and there isn't that much backlash for that particular thing. One great thing about this is that Thrawn is the main character but has many great characters such as Eli Vanto who had so many layers like Shrek and his onions. I really want more stories in book form for all of these characters and in other formats too such as on Star Wars Rebels and possibly in Movies. I really hope that Thrawn doesn't die in Rebels because I would really like to see his perspective of events after that and just see and read infinite stories after that. One of which would be his meeting with Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars which is mentioned numerous times but we really don't get any details.

In all I can write about this book all day, but I have to end this somewhere. So, in conclusion Thrawn is one of the best new canon Star Wars books that is very intelligent and a great engaging read. I rate it 10/10 awesome and smart a great Thrawn read and introduction.