I legitimately flew through this book, wanted to finish it within one night the storyline and plot were so addictive with their portrayal and wording. It’s highly likely, if not positive I’ll reread this book at some point in time. The book itself is extremely well written by an extraordinarily promising and talented author, I haven’t read such beautiful and consistent writing in a long time and the author is now automatically one of my favorite authors out there, definitely want to read more of their works, the talent of their writing and wording in this junior novelization is just incredible. Super easy to understand and take the reader’s mind from Point A to Point B in the storyline. I haven’t read another junior novelization yet this well written, I believe that may be because the three I’ve read (Episodes 1, 2&3 by Patricia C. Wrede) are all Legends novelizations due to being written at the times the movie came out exactly and not being able to have full information or references in the Star Wars Universe quite yet due to the Star Wars galaxy not having expanded quite that much yet into all the TV Series and Movies we have today, that is an advantage this author had over the ones of old. I honestly didn’t expect much from this book because I didn’t really enjoy the movie; it was only okay to me, not exactly enjoyable but not bad either, but once I picked up this novelization I just couldn’t seem to put it down, I was addicted to finishing the story. I liked how most if not all of the chapters left off on cliffhangers or unknown events in the chapter so you’d want to turn the page to get to the next chapter. I thought that was very clever overall for the book. I think this junior novelization is so good overall that it didn’t even need the movie photo inserts most other junior novelizations include. For a true reader who loves and is enjoying the storyline the photos are unnecessary and would only interrupt your reading. I liked how Qi’ra and Han’s bucket of eels scene on Corellia was included, because this scene I believe is also in the official full-length movie novelization, I believe it kept the book whole and completely and complexly accurate to the other works. I was wondering whether or not they’d include that scene. To me, the overall depictions of Val, Beckett and Rio are all really great depictions of their characters you don’t exactly get great insight to in the movie, you get a glimpse of their true personalities and how they relate to one another and are connected as a crew in this junior novelization. I noticed that the small, slight joke about Han and Carbonite overall during the Kessel Run scenes is ironic and slightly funny, which I’m sure is why it was included there. I’m sure it would be funnier if I had a better sense of humor and wasn’t so serious about it. I absolutely LOVED the way young Lando’s character is portrayed even better than he is in the movie personally to me. Every part of the book, every event, every mission, every plot/plan/heist, are all amazingly laid out in detail from the beginning to the end, easily understandable and highly enjoyable to read and witness occurring in the book. I LOVE these parts of the book (such as the Kessel Heist in particular). And finally, at the end of the book when Maul tells Qi’ra Dryden loved her and out of all his disciples was the only one with the potential to surpass him is a great detail that’s included in this junior novelization, I love this fact being included in this book. It ties in very nicely with the 2023 canon novel Crimson Climb by E.K. Johnston (about Qi’ra’s rise through Crimson Dawn’s ranks). The fact itself is highly accurate and truthful overall to the characters and their relationships as well as being highly relevant to the storyline and plot of the book. The book had a nice, short resolution I enjoyed reading and thought finished out and fulfilled the rest of the storyline nicely. The book is really nice as a stand-alone novel to read but also to be read within the order of all of the rest of the junior novelizations as an overall series.