Books The High Republic: Defy the Storm by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland

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Yep, this plot has been cooking for a while.

 

Have seen a meme regarding this situation for some time ago, but it is based on moment from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, so it would not pass a censorship.

 

I believe you can post it within a suitably tagged spoiler code.

 

Ok

Spoiler: Including cursing and probably lack of taste

 

Crude but funny.

 

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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/star-wars-the-high-republic-defy-the-storm

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Imri is alive, Reath is back - that is great.

 

YAY

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REATH! He is a knight now right? Does he have a a padawan?

 

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IIRC, there were no mentions of him having a Padawan in promo-materials for Phase III.

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This is legitimately funny.

 

https://www.starwars.com/news/authors-on-authors-justina-ireland-tessa-gratton

 

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I can't tell you how bummed out I was when I came to the first chapter featuring Jordanna Sparkburn and Sylvestri Yarrow. I hated Sylvestri in particular, her pining was unbearable. Hopefully she's less insufferable being with Jordanna now.

 

Brilliant book in my opinion, maybe the best in the High Republic so far.

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This was a really good sequel to both Mission to Disaster, which I loved, and Out of the Shadows which I was ambivalent about. I was surprised how little Imri and Reath were featured but I didn't mind at all. The journey for Avon, Vernestra and Jordanna in this book were all quite amazing. In general the book tied so many threads from previous books together, it was beautiful to see. Also loved seeing the further development of Devas relationship with the Starros clan tying nicely into the comics. Deva is in general a pretty cool ambivalent character. Xylan Graf reminds me of Axel Greylark and I didn't like him in Out of the Shadows but he worked really well in this I thought. Vernestra dragging Elzar was quite cool as well, I share her dislike of him. Also it's really lovely to finally see some progress in the fight against the Nihil in this and Escape from Valo. The epilogue with Reath and Azlin was quite intriguing, interested to see where it goes.

Overall I'll give this 10/10, it was just that good. On par with Light of the Jedi which was my favourite High Republic novel so far.

 

I don’t know what it is about this one but I just kinda didn’t like it. It was fine. There felt like there was to many perspective shifts. Also maybe I am missing something or maybe it’s because I read literally hundreds of different things between this and reading the last young adult novel that I just kinda forgot the plot. But I don’t think that’s the case as I listened to Eye of Darkness months after reading my last high republic book and that’s one of my top canon novels.

but yea this one is getting around a 7.9 one of the weaker reads. Maybe I just need to a break from Star Wars literature. But this wasn’t doing what I wanted.

Maybe it’s because I have grown way more invested in the stories of the adult novels. Maybe it’s because I think the young adult novels of phase 1 and 3 have been all over the place (phase 2 was great)

I really wish this was doing something more for me. But it just wasn’t clicking in the right spots and no before you ask I don’t know what the right spots would have been. Just several times throughout the novel where I was like oh boy I hope this ends soon. Maybe it was because it took itself to seriously. In that regards Graf was a book saver.

 

Just finished the book. Annoyed that Reath is yet again relegated to minor character with very little to do.

 

Where did you get the info about Reath being the lead of the next YA book?

(also how many books are there in this phase?)

 

Ok, I see the info about Reath.

I thought it had the same about as phase 2.

 

So I finished the book.

It's alright. It suffers from having too many characters in too many places.

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I like that they are working out how to deal with the Storm Wall. The Graff was a lot of fun, maybe the most fun of the group.

Avon killing was interesting, I was expecting a 'bigger' reaction, but at least it stuck with here.

The blight was, interesting, it's apparently related to the Nameless, which does make sense the force is part of all life after all.

I was shocked that Avon apparently having a crush on Reath, that was the biggest twist for me.

Oh and the ending scene with Reath seems to just be set up for the next book, eh not the best way to end the book.

 

Just got finished with this book prior to Temptation of the Force coming out since I have heard it is pretty much a direct prequel to that book. Thought it was pretty good though I suspect how much enjoyment people get out of this book will depend on their investment in the Vernestra character. Vernestra is one of my favorite characters in High Republic as Justina Ireland writes that character really well in my opinion.