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Star Wars: Ahsoka (novel)

Ahsoka (Star Wars)Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Author E.K. Johnston dedicates this canon Star Wars book to the Royal Handmaiden Society and writes in her acknowledgements section that she wanted to write a Star Wars book, receiving input from the Lucasfilm Story Group to formulate a story about Ahsoka Tano, who in The Clone Wars CG series left the Jedi Order towards the end of the conflict that rages between the second and third Episodes of the film franchise. The novel opens with a look at the past, when Ahsoka Tano exchanges taunts on the burning planet Mandalore with the former Sith Lord Maul, thought dead after The Phantom Menace but confirmed alive with prosthetics in The Clone Wars.

Given the decimation of the Jedi Order after the Clone Wars concluded with Chancellor-turned-Emperor Sheev Palpatine’s Order 66 to have the clone soldiers turn against their former Jedi commanders, protagonist Ahsoka feels alone but actually appreciates solitude, living in the Outer Rim of the galaxy near the Fardi family on the world Thabeska under the alias Ashla, as the first Empire Day indicating the anniversary of the Republic’s transition into the Galactic Empire comes. She quickly involves herself in technological repair work, occasionally missing the droid R2-D2 and her former master, Anakin Skywalker.

However, Imperial Stormtroopers seeking survivors from Order 66 quickly force Ahsoka to resettle on Raada, with occasional Jedi mind tricks furthering her survival. One of her friends, Kaeden, an orphan with nothing to his name, is captured by soldiers and interrogated about the former Jedi’s whereabouts, with another antagonist, the Sixth Brother, spearheading the search for her. The story concludes with Ahsoka recruited by Alderaan Senator Bail Organa into the Rebel Alliance and her adoption of the name Fulcrum. Overall, this canon Star Wars novel is enjoyable, despite minor confusion regarding character fates and their names, but is recommended easily to series fans.

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