Books Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed

Probably just weeks or months after the first book.


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So there's good chance that it'll be essentially the same cast of characters carried over from the first book.

 

That's definitely the case. All of Alphabet Squadron and Caern Aden and Hera are in the the sequel.

 

The book gets better toward the end, but it's slooooow. I suspect the sequel will be faster-paced, because this was definitely an origin story. For more than just Alphabet Squadron, once you get to the end.

 

First book was set at least one month past Endor (though I thought Cinder lasted around three months?) so still lots of ground to cover until Jakku. May be a few time skips between books, also.

 

As Wesley Crusher taught us....

 

Re-read? If only it'd be so civilised - it'll be more akin to Unicron scoffing down a planet!

 

I'm about just over halfway, around page 250 and, had I not known this was a trilogy, I may well have been more irked. But, knowing that does explain the pace taken, Freed has space to tell his story and he's going to use it.

I've enjoyed the 250 pages so far, there's a neat focus on the characters and the story takes its time to ensure we have a clear sense of them. At the same time, I'm not sure any other story has conveyed the sheer chaotic nature of the Empire's rapid disintegration, only amplified by Operation Cinder, in the way this one does.

 

You waited until all three books were released before starting the trilogy? Incredible patience.

 

To a degree, yes. But the bigger reason is it's easier to remember what happened in the last book when starting the next one when I have the set available. Noticed some time back I wasn't remembering the previous part of a series because it had been 1-2 years earlier.

 

I just finished the first book and, overall, I thought it was really well done.

Spoiler

Wyl was a giant ball of optimism, which I liked, but there were moments, particularly the ones in which Chass is being rude with him, when I was screaming for him to grow a backbone and check her. As the book went on, I began to come around to her POV, especially when she felt that he robbed her of her agency (that moment of realization, one of a few other moments, elevated the book in terms of depth, as messy of a statement that that is), but she was pretty awful to him even before that. I know war is hard and can make people jaded, that is definitely shown to good effect throughout the book, but I was pretty much soured on her character from her very first line, even if it was an 'in-character' statement. The fact that they have a thing for each other is just twisting the knife, for me. If a courtship and eventual relationship is something which the other books in the trilogy run with, I'm manifesting a depiction which will not see Wyl crapped on. I would also like to know why they actually like each other.

IT-O is officially my third favorite droid. (BD-1 is the reigning champ, followed by K-20, then IT-O)

Yrica was my third favorite of the original characters. I didn't really need the twist, but it being a thing actually enhances her character. I would have loved a smaller cast, and less jumping around, so that we could get into her head a bit more, as the story of a former Imperial trading workplaces, in real-time, is fascinating. She contextualizes her new environment as one that can offer some kind of redemption, but, in essence, it's an assignment from the institution which facilitated the need for the redemption. I thought that was a neat touch.

 

Don't think you need spoiler tags for a 3 year old book haha.

 

Lol I wasn't going to use them originally but I figured "Why not?" just in case.