Tempest Breaker, published in 2024, is a canon script/novel by Cavan Scott set in the third phase of the High Republic. In it, the Jedi reluctantly team up with former Nihil Tempest Runner, Lorna Dee, to try to stop the mysterious Blight. In exchange for a full pardon by the Republic (and the Jedi), she agrees to help Avar Kriss and Keeve Trennis track down the Nihil's chief scientist, Baron Boolan, who has been working on a way to stop The Blight. The novel connects well to each Phase of the High Republic era, with callbacks to the Tempest Breaker storyline and the fall of the Starlight space station in Phase I, as well as the Path of the Open Hand storyline from Phase II.
The hardcover version of the book is just over 500 pages, but due to the script format, some pages have only one or two lines of text, making it actually much shorter than a traditional 500-page novel and reading fairly quickly. Scott does a good job of continuing to develop the characters, some of whom have now appeared in several books, and advancing the overall story toward its conclusion. Ultimately, if you have followed the High Republic storyline in the other novels (especially the adult books, which are considered the "main" storyline), this one is worth reading.
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