Book Look: Queen's Peril By E.K Johnston

Yes, a sequel (prequel) to last year's "Queen's Shadow".

First, the first 60 pages alone focuses on the points of view of;

• Panaka
• Palpatine
• Sidious
• Obi-Wan
• Tsabin
• Padme
• Padme's Parents
• Each of the handmaidens as they're picked for the position
• Shimi Skywalker
• Maul
• Mariek Panaka (Whom I actually love and wish we saw more of)

The book is called "Queen's Peril", not everybody else. I do remember that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are involved with Naboo during the events of whatever stupid bullshit they were dealing with. The only acceptable POV outside of Padme's would be Tsabin (Sabe).

It feels like even the author was bored by the Trade Federation nonsense because it appears out of nowhere. I've always had the idea that George created it but no one else knew what the fuck he was getting at, and so here we are.

The problem is we know (Somewhat) about the actions of Phantom Menace. We didn't need to hear it again. If this was about the second year of Padme's reign after that, it would be more tolerable.

And that's all this book is; Tolerable. I didn't think the first one was the best Star Wars novel or anything, but it did give us new insight.