Books The High Republic: Temptation of the Force by Tessa Gratton

Maybe the Republic's efforts to establish connections with the Gungans before Phase 1 were at least partially successful and some of them left their home planet. But after the events of Phase 3 and the Nihil's attack on Naboo they will return to full-scale isolationism.

 

Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

 

https://www.starwars.com/news/temptation-of-the-force

 

If there is an Avar and Elzar sex scene in this book I might just have to read through it twice. Not three times though as that would be pervy, lol.

On a more serious note.

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The way that scene plays out makes me think there isn't going to be much of a time jump between Eye of Darkness and Temptation of the Force.

 

Now I want some food haha

it will be 'interesting' to see where these temptations go.

Maybe they could get Sarah J Maas to write a Star Wars novel haha

But this should be interesting. I mean its not like HR hasn't implied sex before, we just come in after it.

 

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Yep and the books have implied that Avar and Elzar had sex with each other as teenagers prior to becoming Jedi Knights. People have been predicting for awhile that Avar and Elzar were intended to be the opposite of Anakin and Padme and would have a forbidden love that wouldn't end in disaster..

We'll see what happens. If they decide to start a romantic relationship by the end of this book there will be one more book left to explore the result of that decision.

 

I hope those people are right.

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maybe they leave the order? become part of the lost 20.

 

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Doubt it, because in the opposite case there will be too much addition to the Lost list in such a brief period of time (by the way, still hope for a retcon that Lost Twenty consists only of postNew Sith Wars Jedi Masters).

 

Wait does it not?

 

IIRC, in the EU Darth Ruin is the part of the list.

 

Interesting. Still there were at 12 by 990bby so to get to 19 in another 900ish years they would need a few to leave at once.

 

With how actively Jedi switched sides even in the last years of the NSW (including Kaan, who was a Jedi Master himself), 12 seems like a strangely small number.
Although in the NU canon it is already established that Darth Krall is also the part of the Last Twenty, so seems like no room for a retcon.

 

It might be they don't count 'fallen' jedi and they don't know about Darth Ruin.

 

If the Lost Twenty does cover the entire history of the Jedi order there would definitely need to be some significant stipulations in order to get on that list as twenty would be an incredibly small number for a period of 20-25000 years. If there is indeed just twenty it really would make more sense for it to be post Sith Wars where it seems a lot of things got reformed in the galaxy.

 

Star Wars: The High Republic: Temptation of the Force - First Excerpt

https://www.starwars.com/news/tempt...4dr3LnWYp5dPtw7l6HKca0pnjLztmXwKZANDMAzux2TCU

 

Something came across my mind when reading this. Do they separate men and women's living quarters just like they do in real life in a dormitory setting?

Who is the dorm monitor in the Jedi Temple to make sure these crazy kids don't invite each other over too much?

 

"Elzar, why are you here?"
"Word is your fridge is broke and it's all heating up..."

 

Sounds like Defy the Storm is 100% required reading for this (it seems like it's basically a direct sequel) which in itself is a direct sequel to other YA and junior readers books, and man... I'm kinda cranky about it. Reaching the point of "Yeah you need to read everything" was probably inevitable as the conflict escalated and the stories became more and more interconnected, but man, I just wish so much of it wasn't in the form of books and comics for preschoolers and tweens, written by authors whose style is firmly in that wheelhouse. My enthusiasm for each new wave of stories decreases markedly when I discover how many more zany Ram Jomaram or Avon Starros capers I have to sit through in order to be able to understand what's going on in the mainline adult novels.

 

It's a style of storytelling that definitely isn't for everyone and I'm sure it will be addressed in future projects they do.

The interconnectivity that Star Wars expanded material has has always been a big selling point to it but I don't think it has ever been done to this degree before. It probably was just a little too much but you can see why they did it.

 

IMO, separation on adult and young adult novels was a wrong move right from the start.

 

I agree. I really don't see any difference between the writing on adult and young adult books.

 

The only real difference is that the YA books often have main characters who are teens while the adult novels have adult main characters.

 

I'm also of the mind that the tight interconnectivity of the adult, YA, and MG novels isn't really that much of a problem. As others have noted the only real difference between the adult and YA novels are the ages of the main protagonists, and as far as the MG novels go, they can usually be read in a day or two, so they're not exactly placing that much of a burden on the reader.

And for those who really just aren't into it and wish to consume only the "adult" novels, it should be noted that there are reference books out there - books like the Character Encyclopedia, Chronicles of the Jedi, and Timelines can certainly fill in the gaps enough to get you by. Right now those books only cover up to Phase II, but you can bet there will be more to come. It's also not that hard to find reader's guides, summaries, etc. with a little googling.