

Leia continues to be the beating heart of it all, but even she knows that she won't be around forever. Whether or not Poe is ready to be a leader doesn't matter, he has to be, and he gradually steps up in fantastic fashion. The former is still healing from the events of The Last Jedi, and the latter is dealing with his massive guilt regarding his mutiny against Vice Admiral Holdo.


**Īs the cover suggests, the book definitely focuses on Leia and Poe.

We absolutely encourage you to read the book before you read any of this if you don't want to be spoiled. The spoilers will be massive, as that is the entire point of this article. **WARNING: From this point forward, there will be spoilers for the book Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. We've gone as far as we can go without hitting the spoiler hyperdrive. though, admittedly, that was already the case. Far from it: The book opens up all kinds of possibilities for the canon, it adds to the lore, and it really makes you want to see the new film immediately. There's a lot of teasing going on but it's not annoying. the new film takes place years after this book, and a lot of things can happen. Just because a beloved character from the movies (and books) plays a major role here, it's not a promise they will pop up in The Rise of Skywalker. That said, the book makes no promises (none whatsoever) that the returning characters on display will appear in the new movie. Resistance Reborn pretty much goes through the last few years of canon and asks, "who do we have left?" Every now and then, we also get a character from the films who may still have a fate left up in the air, and it's very welcome. While the book does set some things in motion for the new film (why it's not going to be just the Millennium Falcon fighting an entire First Order fleet, for example), it mostly serves as a round-up of almost every character from the canonical books, comics, and games that are still alive in the sequel era. The book takes place very close to the ending of The Last Jedi, so there's plenty of room for things to develop by the time we get to the saga-capping Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. They need allies, they need ships, and they need them now. Both General Leia Organa and Commander Poe Dameron have their hands full, as their Resistance (as we last saw it in Star Wars: The Last Jedi) is not doing very well. How do a legendary general and a hot-shot pilot take a couple dozen allies on one ship and rebuild a fighting force that can take on an ever-growing army of unoriginal evildoers? The new book Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse (published by Del Rey) answers that question.
