Star Wars: Aftermath (book 1)
Chuck Wendig
ISBN: 9780345511621
Mostly focused on a rag-tag band of thrown-together allies on a single world under imperial influence, with obviously-required-by-Disney snippets of scenes with major characters or locations.
Read September 2015
This is the first official Disney-licensed Star Wars book after all the rest of them got relegated to the "Legends" trash heap. Wendig has his work cut out for him, because anything he does is going to contradict or re-write EU canon, well-established in the hearts and minds of rabid fans everywhere.
Despite that hobble, and the obvious contractual obligations mandated by his mouse-eared overlords, Wendig crafts a lovely "Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina" sort of adventure. We have a ragged band of tired Rebels, the squabbling and back-biting remains of the Empire, and all sorts of planets and peoples who really don't like or want much to do with either of those institutions. There's a rocking bounty hunter, a droid with an oversized personality, and a maybe-innocent kid thrown into a situation he's really unprepared for. Mix all that together with the patented Star Wars brand of intense family issues, a few x-wing and tie-fighter dogfights, a healthy helping of explosions, a dash of squicky alien biology, and you've got yourself a solid textual re-introduction to that galaxy long ago and far away.
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