Tag: Alphabet Squadron Trilogy

Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron – Victory’s Price

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Victory always has a price, but what will it be for Alphabet Squadron? Writer Alexander Freed sends off his trilogy with the fantastic, expansive, and fitting finale in Alphabet Squadron: Victory’s Price, where the battle to take down Shadow Wing, as the war barrels towards its conclusion, culminates in a reckoning for the misfit team of pilots and those on the other side, leaving us with the modern era’s best trilogy of novels; I don’t say it lightly, but it might be one of the best book trilogies in Star Wars publishing history, even. Continue reading “Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron – Victory’s Price” →

Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron – Shadow Fall

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The second book in the Alphabet Squadron trilogy, Shadow Wing, written again by Alexander Freed, is another excellent entry, capitalizing on all of the first book’s strengths and finding ways to improve and expand. It’s one of those rare sequels that rises above the first, like Empire after A New Hope! Continue reading “Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron – Shadow Fall” →

Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron

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Alphabet Squadron, written by Alexander Freed, is the beginning of a trilogy involving a unique, ragtag group of pilots hunting down one of the Empire’s most feared TIE Fighter Wings, Shadow Wing, in a post-Return of the Jedi world. Its micro-level view of the larger conflict, with a focus on multifaceted, psychologically complex characters makes it a fresh and unique start to a larger trilogy. Continue reading “Canon Novel Review: Alphabet Squadron” →