![]() Within the hierarchy of the Nihil, she is the highest-ranking officer just under the leader, Marchion Ro, whose title is “The Eye”. The story follows Lorna Dee, one of the three Tempest Runners of the Nihil. It’s a shame that Scott devotes the story to one of the villains, but, for the first time at least, we are given more backstory and humanization of a character than we have seen in any of the previous books. This allows Scott to develop at least one character more fully. “Childish”, in this sense, is simply meant to imply that it is targeted to children-or, perhaps more abstractly, the child within, which, in a sense, Star Wars always has been.)Īnother improvement is that, unlike the previous novels (and, by the way, “Tempest Runner” is chronologically set between the events of “The Rising Storm” and “The Fallen Star”), the focus is on one character rather than an ensemble of characters. ![]() (And please don’t take that the wrong way. That style also has a certain appeal, one that modern audiences (especially adults who have, like me, grown up with Star Wars) may find childish. Star Wars has always harkened to a more old-fashioned, traditional linear form of storytelling, much like the classic Saturday afternoon serials that were the inspiration for George Lucas when he created Star Wars in the late-70s. It is also somewhat of a more mature approach to storytelling. Time-jumps, in my opinion, are always better for a story because it makes the reader pay more attention. Nothing necessarily wrong with that style, but Scott’s nonlinear, non-chronological approach gives the reader more of a challenge, in a good way. Narratively, Scott’s story lacks the trademark Star Wars linear story-telling format. There are several things that Scott does in this script that are improvements over the last several novels. Indeed, the story is very fast-paced, and the format fits the story. In a novel, this may not work as well, but as a script, it works very well and helps to build momentum for the story. Like most plays, audio or otherwise, much of the action and the plot comes from dialogue, and this is very dialogue-heavy. ![]() “Tempest Runner” is actually a script for an audio play, one that is intended to have music, sound effects, and (I assume) different actors playing the different roles. ![]() Cavan Scott’s “Tempest Runner” is the first High Republic novel that I didn’t find pathetically mediocre, which says a lot, considering it isn’t even a novel. ![]()
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