Star Wars: Victory’s Price sticks the landing. Hard.

This is a coherent, cohesive, and concise wrap-up to a story that honestly felt all over the place in the first two books. Somehow some way we’re still dealing with the fallout from Operation Cinder, mostly in terms of relationships.

The question of what someone’s capable of, the person standing next to you in the trenches, that hits and that theme runs deep through this book and the whole trilogy.

The action? Fantastic. There are two standout scenes with TIEs and X-wings going one-on-one, and in the audiobook version, it was like Dolby. Absolutely cinematic.

This is that very rare third book that somehow makes the first two so much better. I felt like I needed to go back and reread books one and two just to fully appreciate the arc.

Now, as good as this book is, it does have to carry a lot of weight the others didn’t quite manage. That’s the only real downside. But because it does that heavy lifting and does it well this trilogy becomes a must-read for any Star Wars fan. 4/5 #starwars #empire #newrepublic