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A review by odin45mp
Canto Bight (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Rae Carson, Saladin Ahmed, Mira Grant
3.0
This was a decent bit of tie-in fiction. I loved the stories by Mira Grant and John Jackson Miller, which are very different in tone and not your standard Star Wars fare, but work beautifully with the backdrop of Canto Bight.
Saladin Ahmed's story was okay but stretched things a bit for me, with just how gullible one of his main characters was set up to be. Miller's story also stretched credulity but with its subject matter it worked for me in a way that Ahmed's story didn't quite work. Which is a pity because I enjoyed the other main character and a lot of his dialogue.
Rae Carson's story was okay but didn't really grab me. It sinks into the background for me like several of the stories in the old Tales From... anthologies.
Worth a read if you want more worldbuilding that ties with The Last Jedi, but you can read this without having seen the movie, or vice versa, and not miss much, unlike the previous anthologies which since I had seen the Original Trilogy countless times by the time they had come out I can't separate the stories from the movie scenes in my head. Maybe for a future Star Wars fan who has seen The Last Jedi twenty plus times and then reads Canto Bight it will meld together for them. For me, I don't think it will, but time will tell.
Saladin Ahmed's story was okay but stretched things a bit for me, with just how gullible one of his main characters was set up to be. Miller's story also stretched credulity but with its subject matter it worked for me in a way that Ahmed's story didn't quite work. Which is a pity because I enjoyed the other main character and a lot of his dialogue.
Rae Carson's story was okay but didn't really grab me. It sinks into the background for me like several of the stories in the old Tales From... anthologies.
Worth a read if you want more worldbuilding that ties with The Last Jedi, but you can read this without having seen the movie, or vice versa, and not miss much, unlike the previous anthologies which since I had seen the Original Trilogy countless times by the time they had come out I can't separate the stories from the movie scenes in my head. Maybe for a future Star Wars fan who has seen The Last Jedi twenty plus times and then reads Canto Bight it will meld together for them. For me, I don't think it will, but time will tell.