Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars - Sam Maggs

Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars

By Sam Maggs

  • Release Date: 2023-03-07
  • Genre: Science Fiction
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 117 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Cal Kestis leads the Stinger Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal’s crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. More important, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy’s future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire the Mantis crew grows more daring.

On what should be a routine mission, they meet a stormtrooper determined to chart her own course with the help of Cal and the crew. In exchange for help starting a new life, the Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable tool for their fight against the Empire. And even better, she can help them get to it. The only catch—pursuing it will bring them into the path of one of the Empire’s most dangerous servants, the Inquisitor known as the Fifth Brother.

Can the Imperial deserter truly be trusted? And while Cal and his friends have survived run-ins with the Inquisitors before, how many times can they evade the Empire before their luck runs out?

Reviews

  • Its pretty good but one note

    4
    By Dogo4lifelol
    Maybe take it down with the love stuff..add but don’t add too much of it ya know what I mean?
  • A good interlude between the games!

    5
    By CBsignal
    Feels like it takes place in the same world, and connects nicely with events from the two games. Great to see more POV from the different members of the Mantis crew. Merrin gets a deserved character arc and Cal has some reckoning with his mission and how he handles risk.
  • Words Cannot Describe How Bad

    1
    By Rig-beast
    It read as a fan-fiction more than anything. It was awkward and choppy, and the writing style felt as though it was published without any editing or notes offered. It actually has ruined my enjoyment of the game series overall. Absolutely terrible
  • Doesn’t tie directly to Survivor.

    1
    By Wolf723
    Despite being told that it directly ties into Jedi Survior it doesn’t. It’s hardly Star Wars and feels more like a cheap fanfic paperback romance novel that isn’t the romance most people were hoping for.
  • Not very good

    1
    By Jedi_SpongeBob
    The book taught me one thing, I really need to pay attention to reviews before I buy a book. It is one lesson I won’t soon forget. There are some amazing Star Wars writers out there but unfortunately Sam Maggs is not on that list.
  • I didn’t like it

    1
    By coraally
    The book wrote like a fanfic and not the good kind. It literally felt like the character were of the fandom versions of themselves instead of the actual good written ones.
  • Disappointment

    1
    By S606
    Don't waste your money. Barely made it 5 chapters before removing my download and requesting a refund (thank you to Apple for granting me that refund). This book is plagued with terrible writing. Written like an amateur teen novel with an agenda to push.
  • Phenomenal

    5
    By Lorena6886
    Sam Maggs, I am about to buy every book you have ever written—this book was BEYOND amazing. As a JFO fan, I can see how much work went into this. The way each character is organically focused on and gets their own time in the spotlight is amazing. I don’t remember what line it was, but towards the end, an exchange between Greez and Cere made me burst out sobbing. Everyone in this story has a stake and I loved getting to spend time with each and every one of them. Also this book is mad funny. “Cere-ious” and “Blorp (that’s what Greez said his name was)” had me laughing in the first ten minutes. Also the gratuitous amount of times Greez’s salt obsession was mentioned got a chuckle out of me. No spoilers in this review but getting inside of Cal’s psyche was a delight. Him and Merrin’s parallelism (and juxtaposition) might’ve been my favorite part. I don’t know though. There’s a lot to love about this book. But yeah. The storytelling is top notch. I do not say this lightly, but after cramming this entire novel from 11pm-5am, it might be my favorite Star Wars novel now. It’s definitely top three. If you’re a JFO fan and you’re anxiously waiting for Survivor, read this immediately!