Reviews Books The JC Lit Reviews Special: INTO THE LIGHT (Spoilers)

Todd the Jedi · Apr 11, 2025

You've gone into the dark, now time for the light! Here's the review thread for The High Republic: Into the Light by Claudia Gray. Go ahead and give it a score on the 1-10 scale, as long as you have read or listened to the entire book. Reviews are not necessary but are encouraged, lest a blight falls upon your books!

devilinthedetails · May 8, 2025

9 out of 10.

This was my favorite entry from Claudia Gray in the High Republic era. I especially loved her development and depiction of Reath and Affie in this novel. We can see how much they have both grown since the first High Republic YA novel also written by Claudia Gray, and that is super satisfying.

The worldbuidling and the connections to the Sith were also fascinating.

Dawud786 · May 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM

9/10 for me as well. I think this is definitely Claudia's best work in the series. It's also the first time all these characters have really been brought back together like this and written as themselves, so to speak.

I felt like I had a stronger sense of the passage of time from the Great Disaster to near the end of the Nihil conflict than others.

I think my only quibble with this book would be that Reath's involvement with the Blight story is mostly sidelined to resolve the Drengir once and for all. As such, Reath's discovering of the Blight(and Nameless) repelling metal from Tears of the Nameless is completely forgotten and goes unmentioned. As a result there's a level of disconnection from Reath's previous adventure that seems a touch unnecessary and could have used more overt connection to that book, and the primary metaphysical plot, and hopefully the resolution of the entire THR storyline.

Aside from that, I think there's a great deal of character development and Kashyyykian lore expansion that more than makes up for those directly relevant tie-ins being absent.

Geode.

Chris0013 · May 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM

I just started reading Into the Light...AKA The Return of Geode. With Geode in the book it is an automatic 9/10

Chris0013 · May 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM

Dawud786 said: ↑

9/10 for me as well. I think this is definitely Claudia's best work in the series. It's also the first time all these characters have really been brought back together like this and written as themselves, so to speak.

I felt like I had a stronger sense of the passage of time from the Great Disaster to near the end of the Nihil conflict than others.

I think my only quibble with this book would be that Reath's involvement with the Blight story is mostly sidelined to resolve the Drengir once and for all. As such, Reath's discovering of the Blight(and Nameless) repelling metal from Tears of the Nameless is completely forgotten and goes unmentioned. As a result there's a level of disconnection from Reath's previous adventure that seems a touch unnecessary and could have used more overt connection to that book, and the primary metaphysical plot, and hopefully the resolution of the entire THR storyline.

Aside from that, I think there's a great deal of character development and Kashyyykian lore expansion that more than makes up for those directly relevant tie-ins being absent.

Geode.
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I thing that putting Phase 2 so far before makes that passage of time thing so strong.

And I agree about the Nameless/Levelers. It is like t his book just ignored the previous books importance on what was done with that.

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