A review by justthatstarwarsbookgirl
We Are the Resistance (Star Wars) by Elizabeth Schaefer

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

I thought that this book wasn’t bad but it wasn’t exactly good either, if anything it was basically decent. It was a simple introduction to the Resistance from the Sequel Trilogy overall. I thought the portrayal of the art of Rey’s character was extremely feminine and her actress, Daisy Ridley, is not that feminine in her features, so therefore I thought that illustration was inaccurate to the movies, but I also sort of liked it at the same time. Finn’s portrayal however does look accurate. As well as Leia’s. I like the roundness of 3PO’s and BB-8’s features and R2’s individual details and coloring. Poe’s character looks a little off to me but that could just be my mind’s eye. Kylo Ren’s character looks NOTHING like his character in the movies and other works. The Fathiers look just like they did in Episode 8: The Last Jedi, and Rose’s character is portrayed well, along with her expression and Finn’s atop the Fathiers being super accurate. I really like the full page spread of Rey in the Jakku sands with BB-8 and fighting Ren’s TIE Fighter. However I thought a lot of the pages, their information and artwork were all wasted in my opinion, a lot of filler items for the book. I loved the two-page spread explaining about Old Allies such as Lando and creating new ones such as Zorii and Jannah. I loved the depictions of Lando, Zorii and Jannah. The last two-page spread of Kylo with the Knights of Ren looks really cool with the reddish pink backdrop against their black outfitting, and finally, the last page having our four main hero’s and two of our main droids on it in a group shot with the captions about loyal friends being all we need, I thought that truly embodied the content and plot of Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker exactly. But overall, I didn’t think the book was that great. It didn’t provide much information and explain much at all about the Resistance itself to me. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this book on the whole to anybody necessarily, even child readers. It was a decent read but definitely not enjoyable, it didn’t bring much emotion to my heart as a Star Wars fan at all. I’m sure possibly other, newer or more simplistic fans would possibly enjoy this book, but it just wasn’t for me.