"Padmé's New Novel Is a Star Wars Story I Didn't..." Topic

…. Know I Needed.

"Although it has come in fits and starts, Disney's total reboot of the Star Wars canon—five years after it began in earnest—is still decidedly light in fleshing out the events between the prequels. So E.K. Johnston's new novel promising to reveal Padmé's life as she transitioned from Queen to Senator of Naboo seems like a potential hotbed of canonical discoveries.

Queen's Shadow is not that novel. And that's actually a really, really good thing.

In this "new" (is it odd to feel like all this Disney Star Wars is new, half a decade into it?) era of Star Wars storytelling, where anything and everything—from a single aside in a comic book to the grandest events of a Star Wars sequel entry—is considered canonical, there's been an underlying feeling sometimes that the primary thrust of media beyond the movies exists first and foremost as a list of Star Wars facts to be collated and archived, and new stories second. While the very best of these stories—whether it's in the comics, books, shows, or otherwise—manage to deliver both facts and a compelling narrative (like Johnston's prior Star Wars work in the Ahsoka novel), getting to learn new details and stories behind and around the events of the Star Wars saga is still vastly appealing to many…."
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