Book Review: Secrets of the Galaxy Deluxe Box Set

 

The Star Wars Secrets of the Galaxy Deluxe Box Set, published in 2016, is a set of four books by author Daniel Wallace. One is a handbook given to Jedi Padawans, one is a handbook given to Imperial Academy troops, one is a handbook given to members of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, and one that is really a written Sith history. They do not read like novels, but more like instruction manuals, codes for the members of the intended audience to live by, etc. In the margins, there are notes by different characters making comments on the text, that range from Luke, Han, Boba Fett, Palpatine, Anakin (both the Jedi version of Anakin and later as Vader), Ahsoka, etc. 

The books are relegated to "legends" status and not a part of the official canon material, but certainly, some of the material in them is tied to canon events, so they are kind of a hybrid between non-canon and canon material. They are all relatively short (about 160 pages each), and for the most part, are quick reads. The one drawback is that the "handwritten" notes in the margins can be very hard to read, both because the text size is small, and because it was made to look like handwriting, and sometimes very messy handwriting. They are not what I would call a must-read, even for die-hard Star Wars fans, but they are entertaining.