Star Wars “Queen’s Hope.” This one took me a while to get through probably four or five months. I cruised through the other two books in the trilogy. Queen’s Shadow and Queen’s Peril, which were excellent. But Queen’s Hope felt more like a wrap-up story, covering Padme, her guards, specifically Sabé, and Anakin.

The main focus here is Anakin and Padmé getting married you know, that iconic Clone Wars scene on Naboo where they’re holding hands. It’s a very political book not in the good sense either. Like the backdoor conversations, we didn’t really need to hear. There are a couple of adventures, but honestly, nothing really exciting. It almost felt like filler.

That said, there are some beautiful, iconic moments that fans of Padmé will appreciate. But compared to the first two books? No comparison. This one didn’t quite hit the same way. They probably could’ve stopped at the second book and just added this as an addendum or epilogue.

It’s not bad definitely not terrible but it doesn’t quite hold up to the first two and feels like a lighter entry overall. 3/5

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