#Star wars a new dawn hardcover series

But inevitably he is thrown into situations that occasionally require him to tap into the Force for aid. He’s long abandoned any thoughts on a return to taking Jedi action. We jump forward over a decade later to the planet Gorse, where Caleb Dume (now under the alias of Kanan Jarrus) flies a cargo-carrier for a living from the planet Gorse to it’s moon Cynda, a menial job that should help him avoid detection amongst the Empire. It was an emotional beginning to the novel, one that ultimately put me in the best of mindsets for the rest of story to come. We learn that it was a young Caleb Dume that originally gave Obi-Wan the idea to warn the Jedi away from the Temple, if there were ever cause for worry. We discover Caleb Dume’s origins as a character, particularly the fact that he was a promising padawan of the Jedi at the time when Order 66 went into affect and nearly wiped out all Jedi. This review contains some minor spoilers.Ī New Dawn does begin quite powerfully however. It also seems a bit odd after reading Lords of the Sith, where we find that the rebellion has already taken root against the Empire (thanks to her very own father laying down the first seeds). When she realizes that there are, in fact, other rebellious individuals ready to heed her call to arms out there, only then does she refer to this as a ‘new dawn.’ And that just doesn’t feel right. She wants to insight a galaxy-wide rebellion, although for most of the book she seems under the impression that the people aren’t quite ready yet.

Twi’lek youth Hera Syndulla is in search of, what we come to find out, other like-minded individuals with a yearning to take the Empire down. But thematically, the title seems forced (pun intended).

It’s also the dawn of a new Star Wars franchise in that the characters introduced here will be further developed in the Star Wars: Rebels cartoon.

#Star wars a new dawn hardcover series

It plays off the fact that this is the very first in a series of new canon Star Wars novels, and what with the very first released Star Wars film being titled A New Hope, the title of the book also plays off fan nostalgia. A New Dawn is a great title for this book in a symbolic sense.