Interludes take you out of the main story and on trips around the universe for vignettes of day-to-day life. Outside the politics and battles, Wendig excels at illustrating how the fall of the Empire affects or doesn’t affect everyday citizens. I’m a Rebel through and through, but boy, Wendig picked up where John Jackson Miller left off and made me admire the hell out of Sloane and how she carries herself. No space is wasted, and we dive deep inside the inner workings of our lead characters. Each sentence, each description of action, each joke - it all hits you right between the eyes in the exciting head rush sort of way. The tone is snappy but not short, if that makes sense. His narration style for this novel is different and won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I like the urgency of it.
If you’re a fan of Wendig’s writing style, you’ll be happy to know it’s present here. You come away with an idea of how much has changed in recent months, how much has stayed the same, what kind of forces each side has, and who’s really in power. By using a single, important encounter with those characters at the core, Wendig is able to branch out and make statements about the beliefs, victories, and struggles of each group. We split our time more or less evenly between Rebels like Norra Wexley and Wedge Antilles and Imperials like Admiral Rae Sloane. Aftermath doesn’t present one side of the war. Aftermath picks up months after the game-changing events on Endor and presents a picture of a galaxy in the middle of the messy process of transformation.Įveryone is trying to find his or her place in the new order on both sides. But cutting off the proverbial head wasn’t enough to take down the giant snake of the Empire. The second Death Star has been destroyed, and Emperor Palpatine has been killed. The book - the first of a trilogy - is the first canonical foray into the Star Wars timeline past Return of the Jedi. That sentence is the driving premise behind Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath. Note: This is a spoiler-free review of Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath.
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