Rebel Rising is a young-adult novel that fills in the time-jump gap of approximately thirteen years that occurred at the beginning of the movie Rouge One between when Jyn Erso is found by Saw Gerrera hiding in the cave and when she is freed from Imperial detention by Cassian Andor. The book details Jyn's training with Saw, and why he ultimately abandoned her. It also explores what she did after she was on her own (including a bit of a love story) and ends just before she is rescued and taken to Mon Mothma and the rebels on Yavin IV.
To me, the best part of the novel is the Saw-Jyn relationship, and the lengths he went to in order to protect her identity. It makes their reunion in Rouge One more emotional and more impactful. The book also shows that Jyn and Saw butted heads as she got older regarding his tactics in fighting the Empire, specifically, his willingness to allow collateral damage.
The book is a fairly quick read, and can pretty easily be finished in a week or less, depending on how much time you have to read. It is about the length of the regular adult novels (at just over 400 pages) and the story is actually pretty gritty, so it could have easily been published as an adult novel. If you liked the character of Jyn from the movie, this is definitely worth reading.
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