Star Wars: Canto Bight
Journey to The Last Jedi
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Star Wars: Canto Bight, is a collection of four novellas.. The authors involved are Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller. This book is part of the Journey to The Last Jedi.
SUMMARY: On the planet Cantonica, the city of dreams, the oasis of the galaxy, is the city Canto Bight. Canto Bight is a playground for the rich, the root of sorrow for the unlucky and down-trodden. Don’t let the bright lights and wealthy smiles fool you, because this place has some shady underground mafia like shenanigans going on.
Here’s the list of stories in order from best to worst, in my opinion:
1. Rules of the Game: by Saladin Ahmed – A vacation gone wrong for a poor, trusting little alien.
2. Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing: by Mira Grant – A masseur who gets caught up in some dirty underground mafia-like action.
3. The Ride: by John Jackson Miller – A gambler down on his luck, may have found a little, in the package of three annoying little aliens.
4. Wine In Dreams: by Rae Carson – A wine saleswoman gets caught up in some drama with competition and two very weird sister aliens.
CHARACTERS: Each story has different characters, so there are quite a few. But I will only mention one.
Kedpin: He’s the main character in the first story, Rules of the Game. I like him because he’s relate-able. He won an all expenses paid vacation to Canto Bight for being salesman of the year within the company he works for. He’s a hard worker, mostly innocent, and almost always down on his luck. He doesn’t like bending the rules either. He’s friendly, vulnerable, and a little too trustworthy of strangers.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: This book was decent. It’s cool seeing the different things going on to different folks in Canto Bight. It’s very much like Las Vegas.
Do I recommend that you read Star Wars: Canto Bight? Sure, it’s got some fun stories all based in the Canto Bight city.
RATING: I will give this book a 3.5 out of 5.