Book #43: Bloodline, by Claudia Gray
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grav_ityThis. Book.
Okay, so I am in the small percentage of people who was 100% on board with Leia and Han in TFA, and this book is basically a perfect encapsulation of WHY they were like that. It just makes sense to me. Marriage doesn't work the same for everyone, and it certainly shouldn't in Star Wars-verse, and I love the idea of two people who made it work while also keeping their very complicated lives, and then it got TOO complicated, and they were...screwed.
But really, that's not the most important part of this book.
BLOODLINE is the story of Leia and politics and betrayal and coming so fucking close and then everything falling apart because: Star Wars. It was flipping genius, and brilliantly written and literally everything I wanted.
(OH GOD I AM WRITING A STAR WARS BOOK WHAT IF THE INTERNET HATES ME HOLD ME LJ I MAY SWOON.)
In addition to Leia, we get two more fantastic female characters (Korr Sella, who appears briefly in the movie, and an ex-pilot), and another woman who, well, that would be telling. IT'S JUST SO GOOD.
Also: Bail (and Breha) Organa. JUST BURY ME HERE. Leia knows who her father is, and I JUST LOVE IT.
(Also, Gray got to make A Certain Thing canon, and IT IS BEAUTIFUL.)
Read this.
Okay, so I am in the small percentage of people who was 100% on board with Leia and Han in TFA, and this book is basically a perfect encapsulation of WHY they were like that. It just makes sense to me. Marriage doesn't work the same for everyone, and it certainly shouldn't in Star Wars-verse, and I love the idea of two people who made it work while also keeping their very complicated lives, and then it got TOO complicated, and they were...screwed.
But really, that's not the most important part of this book.
BLOODLINE is the story of Leia and politics and betrayal and coming so fucking close and then everything falling apart because: Star Wars. It was flipping genius, and brilliantly written and literally everything I wanted.
(OH GOD I AM WRITING A STAR WARS BOOK WHAT IF THE INTERNET HATES ME HOLD ME LJ I MAY SWOON.)
In addition to Leia, we get two more fantastic female characters (Korr Sella, who appears briefly in the movie, and an ex-pilot), and another woman who, well, that would be telling. IT'S JUST SO GOOD.
Also: Bail (and Breha) Organa. JUST BURY ME HERE. Leia knows who her father is, and I JUST LOVE IT.
(Also, Gray got to make A Certain Thing canon, and IT IS BEAUTIFUL.)
Read this.
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Date: 2016-06-05 08:13 am (UTC)(I deeply resent how much I grew to like him and how sad I was by his ending. Stupid words making me have feelings.)
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Date: 2016-06-05 11:53 am (UTC)(The most "Star Wars" moment, i.e. the bit with the most crushing inevitability, for me with Casterfro was when he was hosting the party for Centrists and realized that they were all terrible people who were TOTALLY STILL SPACE NAZIS and then died before he could tell anyone how much he regretted all of his life choices.)
I also really enjoyed the pure pettiness of Leia's victory at the end. She can't have a MAJOR victory (bc: Star Wars), but she got a perfect one anyway, and it was beautiful.