*2.75 - rounded to 3


Star Wars Whore rating - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5


Star Wars Time Period - First Order/Ben Solo, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, etc.,


Goodreads rating - ⭐️⭐️.75 (rounded to 3)


Hi, welcome back, today I'm going to be reviewing this book, and also starting a new thing on my Goodreads. If your curious by what I meant of that last statement, let me explain. So I'm a whore for Star Wars. I will be a whore for Star Wars till the day I die, and absolutely nothing will change my love for it. I've decided, every time I read a Star Wars related book, I'll rate it in the 'Star Wars Whore Rating' and add in the time period of Star Wars the book is set. Star Wars Whore Rating means how well the author captured the world of Star Wars, how well they did the characters, and how they explained everything in my taste of writing etc., And Star Wars time period means when and where (if it's a popular planet) the book is set. My Star Wars Whore rating will most likely always be different from my Goodreads rating too. My Goodreads rating is my enjoyment, and my Star Wars Whore rating is how well the author interpreted Star Wars into a different media. Hope that makes sense, because every time I have a new Star Wars book, I'm going to be rating it in my 'Star Wars Whore Rating' system or SWWR


Let's start with my SWHR rating. I really loved how [a: Zoraida Córdova|4824952|Zoraida Córdova|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1586829789p2/4824952.jpg] put Star Wars in a whole different media. She captured it so well! I've actually never gotten around to playing the video game "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" (even though I have wanted to for some time). That's what this book is mainly based off of; Batuu a smugglers planet in the video game. But even though I've never played the game, it doesn't mean I can't comment on how well the author exceeded in making this feel just like a Star Wars movie. I felt the tone I always do when watching Star Wars, and I felt that feeling I get when I watch Star Wars.


The way the author also described things, and made things felt like I was watching one of the films, rather than reading about these characters. The only thing I really have to critique for my SWWR is the lack of light sabers. But I guess I can't really complain to much, because none of our main characters are a Force sensitive or even remotely close to a Jedi so I shouldn't be complaining. But it just missed that extra...thread for me? Idk light sabers are such a HUGE part of Star Wars, and it just wasn't fully complete without them.


Now I'm gonna end with my personal enjoyment, which ended up being the rating I gave for the book on Goodreads. I enjoyed our main characters Izzy and Jules well enough, and I enjoyed the plot, but I didn't love the execution.


I thought this book was going to take place over more than a day, but it didn't, and sometimes I can get past those stories, but this one wasn't believable. I don't like stories that take place over a day. I've not liked one that I've read. And this wasn't an exception. I just couldn't believe this book takes place over a day. Even though the book is under 400 pages (maybe even under 350), so much happens in such a short period of time and I didn't believe it.


And the plot was so SLOW. The Star Wars movies I like the least are the ones with the slowest moving plots (The Phantom Menace, Solo, A New Hope, The Rise of Skywalker - which is not slow but painstakingly stupid. Anyways not the point). And I will agree with myself and say that I don't like Star Wars being slow I'm book form either. Theirs nothing wrong with a slow moving plot, as long as we at least get some action towards the end (it's sci-if I want action). But the action we get was stupid. Like really stupid.


I just thought maybe we'd get like Stormtroopers, and fighting against the First Order, and maybe even the two main characters joining the Resistance, especially because they both seemed lost on what to do with their lives. Alas, we didn't get that.


I will say though that I did really like the romance. Even though it's highly unbelievable, it's good. I don't usually like 'best friends to lovers' but this one, for some reason hit the mark. I think it was because our two main characters were super different from each other, yet they were so similar in so many ways, and that's what really made me like their chemistry.


And no, their isn't anything coherently WRONG with this book, it's a solid book, a lot of the things I complained about are because of my pettiness. Or im better terms, just things I want to knit-pick at.


Overall, this is a very solid read, I just rated it so low mainly because I was bored. I definitely recommend this though if your looking for a Star Wars book that captures the world, and the sci-if aspect very well. (You have been warmed their are no light sabers unfortunately *sad face*).