While on some level I can appreciate the tour of familiar worlds in this particular period of time, it's also again reinforcing the bonds of it instead of spreading into something new. Kylo's a hard character to work with for a lot of reasons and Soule is doing as well as can be at this point. But it does keep feeling like it's just a reunion tour rather than moving forward because Kylo is all about the past. Of course, it has to keep things in a particular place to go into the Rise of Skywalker movie by the end, so it's limited in a lot of ways. I like some of the ideas in here, and the visuals work well, but it's also a book that is definitely suffering for me in a post-Andor world where I'm still trying to grapple with what I want from Star Wars at this point. Read Full Review