Star Wars: Spoiler-Free Book Review – Race To Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older - The High Republic Era (Phase 1, Wave 2)

This week Mike is doing another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era, continuing with the second wave (of the first phase) with Race To Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older – the junior novel which runs parallel to the “adult” novel, The Rising Storm, with a bunch of new and familiar characters!

In more detail, Mike start by giving information on the other releases for The High Republic (the first two waves within Phase 1), plus some background/plot information on the book and then delves into his spoiler-free review; providing information from the blurb & the themes, he then delves into the central characters in this book (as well as some who have appeared previously). Mike proceeds to talk about the way RTCT connects to The Rising Storm (with some mild TRS spoilers) and give some plot details from the first chapter or two of this book. Nearer the end Mike then explains RTCT’s plot (in brief) before giving his final thoughts and confirming what’s next for SWCIC!

Race To Crashpoint Tower was released June 29th 2021 and is by Daniel José Older, who has also written the Han & Lando book Last Shot and all of IDW Publishing’s High Republic Adventures comics plus the Trail Of Shadows mini-series.

Race To Crashpoint Tower is the junior novel of the second wave of the High Republic’s first phase along with the “adult” novel The Rising Storm and the YA book Out Of The Shadows, all set in 231BBY. Wave 3 (due early 2022) will include Claudia Gray’s “adult” novel The Fallen Star plus junior-novel Mission To Disaster by Justina Ireland and Daniel José Older’s young-adult novel Midnight Horizon.

From the first wave of phase 1 is Light Of The Jedi, A Test Of Courage & Into The Dark (232BBY), which Mike has reviewed on this show in 2021; LotJ was March, AToC was August and ItD was October.

Mike spoke with fellow THR author Claudia Gray on December 12th 2020 on this very channel/feed, so make sure you check that out if you haven’t already, plus Mike spoke with Star Wars comic artist Paolo Villanelli on the feed of his other show Genuine Chit-Chat (video version also on YouTube).

Mike tackled the first volume of High Republic comics (by Cavan Scott) in episode 84 of SWCIC and the first volume of High Republic Adventures comics (also by Daniel José Older) in ep 86!.

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