Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View Book Review

Starting as #operationbluemilk, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is a new short stories collection of 40 stories for 40 years since A New Hope. First of all I would like to thank Del Rey and Lucasfilm for sending me a review copy of the book, I am truly grateful. The book is from a certain point of view and is told from the viewpoint of background characters from the original Star Wars. The stories are arranged chronologically, which I appreciated, that way the book wasn't all over the place. The stories are great and really show attention to detail and respect for the Star Wars canon. That being said, there are a few inconsistencies, nothing too big but a lot of the stories occur in the same place and time so it was probably tough to line it up and the characters might just be telling their version of the story. I really liked the variety of authors they had, major star wars novel authors (minus Luceno and Zahn but they've done this stuff before and have other things to write), comic writers, and just a different mix of stories for the book. Some of the most unexpected were Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda, Ian Doscher from Shakespeare Star Wars, and Jeffery Brown from Darth Vader and Son, all stories done in their style of writing. My favorite tales were The Sith of Datawork by Ken Liu,

Master and Apprentice By Claudia Gray about Obi-Wan, Not for Nothing by Mur Lafferty about the cantina band the model nodes, The Trigger by Kieron Gillen starring Doctor Aphra, and of course Verge of Greatness, about Tarkin by Lucasfilm Story Group's own Pablo Hidalgo. All of these stories were of course individual from each other and by separate authors, so unlike a regular novel it doesn't have plot-lines to talk about, but being during a New Hope many character meet the movies heroes and common theme is that while even some of them are imperial they are inspired to rebel by the characters and the force. Del Rey is moving more towards this style of book, with Canto Bight in December and a possible sequel for The Empire Strikes Back. If this happens Lucasfilm and Del Rey please include Jude Watson, Mortimer Jackson, and Ryder Windham, they are great Star Wars authors that deserve credit, all the authors deserve credit, but all of the authors for this book chose not to be payed in order for their money to go to First Book, a charity for children's reading. Another cool thing about this is that reading the about the authors section, numerous of them used to and still are bloggers (maybe I could write Star Wars someday?) From a certain point of view was a great book that was very full of info, funny, and entertaining. I would rate it a 9.75/10. Thanks for reading and stay connected.