A review by jessdrafahl
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back by Elizabeth Schaefer

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

A really fun book, but it suffers the same issues as the first one: a lack of oversight that hinders the book's greatness. First, the stories in this book tended to contradict each other. Not as bad as it did in the first one, but the inconsistencies are still there. Secondly, a huge number of the stories took place on Hoth. I could only read so much about Hoth before I started to get bored.

That being said, this had one of my favorite Star Wars stories: "There is Always Another" by Mackenzi Lee was very good. It was the source of some great quotes:

"Even though the concept was only introduced to him a few years earlier by a stranger he had previously believed to be a hermit gone half mad from sun exposure. Now, when he needs a reason to go, the Force is telling him exactly what to do, like it's a guidebook I'd been recommending to him for years but he's pretending he found all on his own." (346)

"With Anakin, it was his mother, then Qui-Gon, and me and Ahsoka and Padmé, childhood abandonment resulting in him clinging with white knuckles to whoever was nearest him. It has been him and Shmi against the galaxy for so long, then she was taken from him. Then he had Qui-Gon and me, the only familiar stars in the constellation of his new life. And then just me." (350)

and

"He turns back to us for just a moment, and there he is again, the dumb, beautiful son of my dumb, beautiful friend who could never be talked out of anything he set his mind to." (350)