Star Wars: Guardians of the Chiss Key is freaking cool! Honestly, the entire Secret Missions series is freaking cool, and I dig the idea of other secret mission operations. This one serves as the wrap up to Nuru’s story, and it sticks the landing.

What’s really great about this book is how it closes Nuru’s quest. What started with him trailing his master’s mission ends up coming full circle on Coruscant. All the roads come together here: Palpatine, Yoda, the Jedi, and this secret squad operating out on the fringes. The way it’s set up feels like a precursor to something like The Bad Batch.

The pacing in this book is good. There’s not a ton of action, but it never left me feeling like I needed more of it. The way the story flows and the way the series concludes makes up for that completely. By the end, we’re left with this squad still out there on the edges of the galaxy, and it makes me wish there was more to come.

My only small critique: Nuru is around twelve years old, yet pulling off Jedi level eye popping powers. Do I wish it were canon? Sort of. Could they shoehorn it in? Absolutely and if they did, it would be fantastic.

As a series, Secret Missions is a high four out of five for me. There are some dead spots that don’t necessarily need to exist, but the introduction of the Chiss is fantastic. It even plants the seeds of what could be a Chiss grand plan in canon. 4/5.

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