Book Review: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Legends of Luke Skywalker

 

This was a novel released in the lead-up to the movie The Last Jedi, that told stories of Luke Skywalker, which may or may not have been tall tales, from the perspective of outside viewers. The book has a collection of short stories that involved Luke, a couple that retold the events from the movies, and others about things he may or may not have been doing since Return of the Jedi. 

There are six stories in all, the best of which are, for me, the second and third stories. The second, titled The Starship Graveyard is set after the battle of Jakku, and the third, the Fish in the Deluge is about his search for Jedi artifacts. There are a couple of humorous stories as well, including the first which tells the story of A New Hope through the eyes of a conspiracy theorist. 

The book is just under 430 pages, and the six stories are pretty evenly spaced out. It is a fairly easy read that can be finished in a few days, depending on how much time you have to devote to reading. I definitely think it is a book that will cater more to the nostalgia of those of us who grew up on the original trilogy than it really does to give a lot of detail about what Luke did after Return of the Jedi in the new canon material. Hopefully, that will be filled in with subsequent novels, but until then, this one is definitely worth checking out.