This is a canon novel that, to me, should have been one of the young-adult ancillary novels. It is basically a collection of four short stories set on the gambling/gaming planet, Canto Bight. It is the planet that Finn and Rose go to in order to find the slicer in The Last Jedi, which was a part of the storyline that many people at the very least thought was stupid, and/or hated with a passion.
None of the stories in the book involve any of the main characters, either the original, legacy characters, or the new sequel trilogy characters. They are set from the point of view of members of the various alien species that were seen in that part of the movie. The first story, written by Saladin Ahmed, involves a salesman who is taking a dream vacation on Canto Bight and gets mixed up with a criminal who causes him nothing but trouble. The second story, written by Mia Grant, involves a deal over a priceless bottle of wine. The fourth story, written by Rae Carson, involves a servant who is caught in a power struggle between members of the Canto Bight Elite, and the fourth story, written by Jonathan Jackson Miller, involves a deadbeat gambler trying to turn his luck around.
For the most part, the stories are self-contained, although there is some slight overlap between a couple of them. I do think the lack of including any main character hurts the book a bit, and why I think it should have been released as a young adult novel as opposed to a main storyline novel, but I think the stories are entertaining enough. This is not what I would call a must-read canon novel and is probably not a book that I would read multiple times.
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