Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

De: Beth Revis

Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Marc Thompson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo.

The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolate. But on the forest moon of Endor, among the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.

After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he proposes to Leia, it’s the first time in a long time he’s had a good feeling about this. For Leia, a lifetime of fighting doesn’t seem truly over. There is work still to do, penance to pay for the dark secret that she now knows runs through her veins. Her brother, Luke, is offering her that chance—one that comes with family and the promise of the Force. But when Han asks her to marry him, Leia finds her answer immediately on her lips . . . Yes.

Yet happily ever after doesn’t come easily. As soon as Han and Leia depart their idyllic ceremony for their honeymoon, they find themselves on the grandest and most glamorous stage of all: the Halcyon, a luxury vessel on a very public journey to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy. Their marriage, and the peace and prosperity it represents, are a lightning rod for all—including Imperial remnants still clinging to power.

Facing their most desperate hour, the soldiers of the Empire have dispersed across the galaxy, retrenching on isolated planets vulnerable to their influence. As the Halcyon travels from world to world, one thing becomes abundantly clear: The war is not over. But as danger draws closer, Han and Leia find that they fight their best battles not alone, but as husband and wife.

If you're thinking this is a romance novel...

YOU'RE WRONG!
This book is as fantastic as the movies, the details fantastic, and the characters exactly what you'd expect from both the Star Wars Universe AND Beth Revis! The characters we know remained perfectly in their own heads and the new ones were seamless in their integration! BEAUTIFUL WORK! It made it so easy to picture Carrie Fischer and Harrison Ford stepping into this place directly after the battle of Endor. And while their feelings for each other are very much there, it is no different than what was already evident in the movies.

The narrorators were perfect, too! It sounds like Marc Thompson has been doing Harrison Ford impressions his entire life and while Saskia Maarleveld doesn't have the same timber in her voice, she does sound like a slightly more mature Carrie Fischer than the one at the end of Return of the Jedi. In a word, the voice casting was BRILLIANT! Rock on, you two!

Who you calling Scruffy!?

A well written continuation of the characters taken in an unexpected journey that furthers their ties and commitments

Great story

The voice actors really bring to life the characters in this book. Highly recommend to any Star Wars fan.

Amazing side story!

Amazing story directly after episode 6! And plus MARC THOMPSON! Anything he reads is 10x better than just reading it your self!
I recommend this book!

Male narrator is great; female not so much

The male voice narrator is GREAT, he really does awesome impressions of the characters! Han, Lando, & Threepio are all spot on! I’m disappointed, though, that the female voice narrator is kind of weak. Even her impression of Leia doesn’t sound much like Carrie Fisher, in my opinion. And it is very jarring to hear male characters voiced by a woman. She even makes Threepio sound more like a girl (ha). I wish that they used the male voice actor to do all the male characters, and the female voice actor stick to just the female characters. I am not finished yet, so still not sure how much I will like the story. So far it’s been pretty slow and a bit boring, but I’m hopeful it will get better. I do like getting both Han and Leia’s viewpoints during the story.