Leia, Princess of Alderaan, published in 2017, is one of the young-adult Star Wars canon novels. It was written by Claudia Gray, who has penned several canon novels since Disney's takeover of Lucasfilm. Like the other young-adult novels, it is ancillary to the main storyline, detailing Leia's life on Alderaan as she was a young teenager (between the events of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and A New Hope). The book was written before the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, so nothing from the series is mentioned in it. The events in the book are set around Leia's Day of Demand, which was essentially a trial that allowed her to claim the right to the throne of Alderaan. It also contains the first clue that she was force-sensitive, discusses her time in the Imperial Senate, and the "mercy missions" that Darth Vader refers to in A New Hope. It also details how she got involved in the rebellion, how she met Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern's character from The Last Jedi), and an encounter with Tarkin on Alderaan. We also get some insight into her relationship with Bail Organa and her adoptive mother, Breha.
The hardcover version of the book is about 400 pages long. While it is a young-adult novel, the story is very well written and can easily be enjoyed by adults. It gives the backstory to the character that was never fleshed out in the movies, and the author does a good job of portraying Leia as different from the person she is when first introduced in A New Hope, while hinting at how she would grow into that person. Ultimately, if you are a person who only gets some, but not all, of the novels, this is definitely one that is worth reading.
The hardcover version of the book is about 400 pages long. While it is a young-adult novel, the story is very well written and can easily be enjoyed by adults. It gives the backstory to the character that was never fleshed out in the movies, and the author does a good job of portraying Leia as different from the person she is when first introduced in A New Hope, while hinting at how she would grow into that person. Ultimately, if you are a person who only gets some, but not all, of the novels, this is definitely one that is worth reading.
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