Books Rebel Rising: Jyn Erso YA Novel by Beth Revis

The 20th Anniversary edition of HttE certainly mentions his use of WEG material. Possibly some interviews do as well.

 

Finally got this book the other day and read through it all in a few hours because I enjoyed it so much!

I'm glad there was a rough three year gap in the story, opening up room for future Jyn Erso standalone appearances such as her upcoming forces of destiny short (s)

 

This book was phenomenal. Poor Jyn lived a horribly sad life and short life. So glad she got to punch the Empire in the face in her final moments.

If anyone deserved a "happily ever after", it was Stardust.

 

IIRC, he was told to work with WEG sources. At first, he did it reluctantly, but ended up thinking those sourcebooks were actually a treasure trove.

 

I didn't notice the errors in the timeline when I read through it but those errors can be easy to miss if they aren't too numerous. I do know that there were quite a few time skips during the course of the book (the book started right about 13BBY and went up close to the events of R1) and when there are timeskips like that sometimes mistakes can get made regarding passage of time.

In regards to the bleakness of the story well that was just the intended tone of the book. Jyn wasn't meant to have a happy life.

 

Can you give some page numbers where you noticed some of the errors so I can go back and look?

 

I read the whole book and I never noticed any. And I usually try to pay attention to the timeline.


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I haven’t noticed any massive errors in terms of timeline, but I will say that this book seems to be written in a significantly dissimilar voice than most of the others. It’s not bad, but I’m not crazy about it. Part of me thought this story may have been better served in comic form. It seemed choppy at times to me and I thought it might have digested better if it was presented in monthly story issues rather than one book. Some of the stretches felt like rebels/clone wars episodes in that they were going on missions and some shannanigins were gonna take place.

My biggest take away from Rebel Rising is that Saw is pretty loose with the term safe. As in “I knew you were safe!”


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Saw seems to see 'safe' as meaning being safe from his crazy gang!

 

I loved how the book drew out Jyn's background story more than R1 ever could. She really is among the most tragic characters in the franchise.

 

I just finished this book today & gave it 3 out of 5 stars.

It was written well but I don't believe added much. I watched the movie before I began the book and didn't think wasn't really a necessary addition to Canon. I didn't feel it was as good a YA book as Ahsoka or Queen's Shadow. I was disappointed we didn't see more of Saw. I would've preferred a book w/more of her and Saw to be honest. Meeting Ashkaya and Hadder was nice and added to her heartbreak but just didn't pull me in. Maybe it was the book was so scattered that I couldn't get invested as much. Overall it was an okay book, U wouldn't recommend it

 

This book reminded me of Requiem for a Dream. I had been told before watching that movie that it was depressing, and sure enough, it was just as torturous as I thought it would be when I finally saw it. I’m not saying Requiem was a bad movie so much as a depressing and rather disgusting movie that just continued to dig its characters into ever deeper holes they could never crawl out of.

This book was… not as utterly hopeless… but it was clear that any story about Jyn Erso’s life was going to be a downer. This is not a happy book. This is not a book you want to read when you’re feeling sad. This is the Empire at its darkest.

Make no mistake, this is not a bad book. Like Lost Stars, I’m surprised it’s considered “Young Adult” because it has a lot more violence and adult themes than the so-called “adult” novels (yeah yeah, someone’s going to come back at me about shorter sentences, or the protagonist being a young adult, but honestly both of those can be easily found in the “adult” novels). The book does a much better job than any I’ve seen so far showing the slow reach of the Empire over the years following ROTS, and the extremely shaky rise of the “partisans” like Saw’s group. The latter, interestingly, are numerous and don’t always agree on how to tackle the Empire. It’s surprisingly realistic. They’re not all good guys. Beth Revis does a fantastic job portraying the difficult character of Saw Gerrera, since he’s a careful balance of noble and despicable. In short, the novel does a great job balancing this complex development of precursory rebel groups and the perspective of a child who’s caught in the middle.

Honestly, I never cared much either way for Jyn Erso before this book, but after this I have a new appreciation for her. Unlike Free Fall, which really did a number on Poe’s likability (I love Poe in the comics, but he’s rather despicable in that novel… and Zorii is an absolute monster), Rebel Rising substantiates Jyn’s role as the hero we see in Rogue One. She’s a full-fledged character whose life took a really complex path.

The only issue is – you’ll genuinely like some of the characters in this novel. And you know what’s going to happen from page 1. Over and over again. In that sense, it’s basically Requiem for a Dream.

 

A little late, but how is Poe despicable in Free Fall?

 

Bad and Zorii's worse.