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

And it'll come out!

 

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My guess is that Sith scientist(s) used the Echo Stone to create Planet X and maybe used Drengir's genetic material in the process, that is why the planet is a one big organism.

 

I just realized today that Star Wars books changed publishing houses last year. That explains why the Del Rey Wook page stopped being updated. And here I thought this whole time that the wook editor who had been updating that page lost interest.

Figured I would just put this here since this is the most current thread regarding Star Wars books.

 

Maybe Tears of the Nameless will deal with this storyline.

 

Or in SWTOR when everyone teams up to fight Revan.

I would like to see a team up between the Jedi and some "ruthless allies", with the truth revealed at the end.
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Oh so just a guess, I thought I might have missed something.
Didn't they just confirm that the Nameless and blight are unconnected?

 

But the new publishers are under the same umbrella (Random House). Del Rey is just an imprint thereof. And the same editor, @DarthInternous (Tom Hoeler), still works on the adult SW books. Tessa Gratton actually thanked him in the Acknowledgments.



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Yeah they said that that the people that worked at Del Rey for Star Wars are still working under this new name. Their office might even be the same location as it was before. So not sure if anything really changed. Perhaps how many books they do in a year might or how many are shipped out but the team that worked on it before is still intact.

Again I just noticed it because the Del Rey page stopped being updated on the Wook.

 

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Does not seem so, since blight is "homesick" (and the home is probably Planet X) and also controlled by the Ro's rods.

 

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Ro says they aren't the same though

We shall see, the control rod does apparently affect them, might be planet X.

 

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Wonder if Tears of the Nameless will already show the aftermath of Ro's proposal. Also hope that comics will show his "Jedi style" outfit from the end.

 

Literally nothing has changed other than the name. Same team, different logo essentially. Like when a sports team introduces a new jersey color.

 

I believe there's supposed to be a sequel to "The Blade". We should get our full payoff in it.

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Finished this book this morning.

For most of the book I felt like Vernestra about Elzar - ugh. He's always felt childish and self absorbed. Reading his wallowing has been a chore for me. I finally feel like he's left that behind him and is a changed person after the Nameless battle. Here's hoping he continues to grow.

All I kept thinking at the end is Ro's pants must have been setting off smoke detectors with his lying. He can't stop the blight. What would he do if he lost the rod? He'd be nothing. I keep hoping Porter would see it in a video and be reminded about the rods that maybe Creighton mentioned them to him. Those would be something Reath should be able to research.

I'm missing Reath. He was such a huge character in Phase I and made great leaps in moving away from being a bookworm. I feel that sending him back into the books is wrong. Why would Yoda do that knowing there isn't anything in their archieves because he and Creighton (Phase II) agreed such knowledge could be dangerous to even add to the archives?

Vernestra should see thrrough Ro's lies. She saw him using the blight for his own purposes, not to stop it.

I loved finally getting to see my girl Avar back in full form. She was lucky Boolan had put metal on his Nameless and that was what she was hit with.

No resolution between Porter and Veiss was annoying.

I really love Xylan. I'd completely forgotten about his character until he was reintroduced in "Defy." He's so completely self serving and it's obvious he really wants Cair to try to help him to be a better man, but he just can't help himself.

My favorite random scene was Ember meeting Plinka on Naboo. I never knew that was a meet up I wanted to see. Hee hee.

I have a male Great Pyraneese, if I ever get a female of the same breed, I'm giving her the ridiculous name of Plinka. Lol.

 

Unfortunately it looks like we may have to wait until late 2025 to get the Trials of the Jedi novel. The release dates for the junior novels and YA novel for wave 3 were released and one is April 2025 and the other is May 2025. I assume Trials of the Jedi will be the final book so it will likely be even after that.

Hopefully it's as soon as June 2025 but if I had to guess it will be somewhere around August to October 2025 as they will probably want to give people a chance to catch up on most things before the big finale is released.

 

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I also enjoyed the Bell/ Burry relationship. It feels very natural and it's nice seeing Burry treated as an equal, whereas in the Empire age, Wookies are "things."

Poor Bell. He's got massive PTSD. The Jedi really need in depth counseling whenever they encounter either the Dregnir or the Nameless.

I adore Avon also. She's great with her scientific detachment. I loved her using the greatest weapon of all that mother/ daughters have in their arsenol against her mother...guilt.

 

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With Marchion unwillingly admitting that instead of his family he would've like to see Mari' ghost and Vernestra actually having contact with her, wonder if it will contribute to his defeat by her hand.

 

Halfway through now, much better than every adult novel since Light of the Jedi.

 

Okay, incredibly specific rant time, but I have had it up to here with Disney era Star Wars characters espousing speeches about hope! I overall like this book so far, but just like every other High Republic book there’s a speech by someone every other scene about my hope, our hope, we must hope, Marchion Ro wants to kill the hope, hope is all we have, etc etc. Like, I get the original film is retroactively “A New Hope”, I totally understand that, and the words “help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!” are uttered, but it’s like the creatives at Lucasfilm have oddly latched onto that phrase like it’s the driving force of the entire saga ever since Rogue One. Star Wars in my opinion is about transformation: how does a farm boy become a space wizard? A noble Jedi Knight becomes Darth Vader? A republic turns into an Empire? A loner outlaw smuggler becomes a hero married to a princess? But like, outside of Leia’s appeal to Obi-Wan, the characters never speak like they’re downtrodden victims, they just blow up the enemy and get **** done. It’s all over the new films and comics and stuff but just really egregious here.

HOPE POWERS THE DEATH STAR… OF OUR DREAMS!

 

Is that girl still making YouTube videos? She was entertaining for a little while until it started becoming obvious that pretty much all her sketch videos were almost exactly alike.

 

She probably just made a million dollars off of her viral 4 hour Galaxy’s Edge video

 

Let's hope she didn't make that much (and yes I myself just said it). YouTubers like her being able to get those kinds of views is one of the things that is wrong with social media. The days of needing to have talent in order to get a large following are done.

These days you just need to be able to attract teenagers.

 

Jenny n is good people. She does deep duves that warrent the length. It's not like she's grifting on hate and doing sensationalist videos

 

Avar’s speech to Elzar after he turns her down encapsulates everything I don’t like about the writing in The High Republic. I’m paraphrasing to the best of my memory here from the audiobook:

“Elzar, love is natural! It is a beautiful thing I have seen spread from planet to planet, just like HOPE! Love is limitless, just as the force, and the force burns inside me!” Goes on for another three minutes. It’s like the writing in Star Trek Picard!

 

Agree, Avar gave too much freedom to her inner Katara

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A reason I loved listening to the Ascendancy audiobooks last year. An endless 60 hours of weirdos speaking in technobabble and military jargon with lips twitching and grimacing and not a single monologue about the virtue of friendship. God bless Timothy Zahn.