Book Review: Star Wars: Shadowfall by Alexander Freed

This was a pretty interesting book - although it wasn't always fun to read. It really relies on you to have read it right after Alphabet Squadron - or at least remember the characters and plot - there's no slowing down to pick up the thread. Unfortunately for me, I read the first book in the series a year or so ago and it wasn't THAT memorable.

It also has a very convoluted plot that makes the first third or so of the book a little hard to get into - the Alliance is conquering a planet, only to set a trap for the Empire's Shadow Squadron, only for the Shadow Squadron to win, then they don't want anything to do with the planet...it can be hard to wrap your head around what's going on.

Once the story gets moving, though, it does find its moments. In standard second-part-of-a-team's-trilogy, this story finds ways to separate the members of Alphabet Squadron, and each of the separate stories have value. The story of ostracized squadron leader Yrica Quell is especially interesting - shipwrecked on a chunk of rock with a hated intelligence agent and a reformed but damaged torture droid, with the only way out through an eerie temple....

Pretty good read for hardcore Star Wars fans - seven out of ten hot dogs!