Book Reviews: 'Star Wars: Queen's Shadow'
Cover art by Tara Philips. © 2019 Disney-Lucasfilm Press Well, Dear Readers, it's Friday again, and here I am with a new Star Wars book about Padme Amidala, a character who is prominent in the franchise as the secret wife of the Man Who Will Be Vader and the ill-fated mother of the Skywalker Twins (Luke and Leia). Best of all, we get to revisit our favorite galaxy far, far away during a period that has not been explored much since the House of Mouse purchased Lucasfilm from George "the Maker" Lucas almost seven years ago: the Prequel Era. On March 5, Disney-Lucasfilm Press published E.K. Johnston's Star Wars: Queen's Shadow, a novel set four years after the events of Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In this all-new canonical novel by the author of Star Wars: Ahsoka, we get to follow the 18-year-old Padme as she makes the life-changing transition from being the elected monarch of Naboo to the challenging and perhaps even perilous world of galactic p