Canto Bight may be the richest, most fantastic place in the galaxy but you sure as hell wouldn't know it based on these stories...As has come to be pretty much par the course with all these new canon tie-ins, Canto Bight is a huge disappointment. In and of itself the idea and the concept behind getting fans super pumped up and excited for the events on Cantonica in the upcoming The Last Jedi are good ones. Just think how much more fun Naboo and Kamino would have been had something like this was

Over all none of these are bad stories, but none of them are that great. Kind of a reoccurring thing in the New Canon. None of the books are bad (well, except for the Aftermath books, a majority of them are bad sadly), but they just aren’t that interesting to me. And, Phasma aside, the ones I do like have to do with the Jedi. Which apparently is something the New Canon just doesn’t want to follow.

Great fun with three authors trying a Star War story for the first time and one old hand. All tales are set in Canto Bight , the Las Vegas style city seen in the Last Jedi. Saladin Ahmed tale involves a Salesman of the Year who get more than he bargained for in this trip of a lifetime, Mira Grant aka Seanan McGuire spins a tale about a bottle of rare wine whose vintage is to kill for. Rae Carson tale involves a Spa worker and blackmail. One of my favorite Star Wars authors is John Jackson Miller...

A very disappointing book. One of the reasons it took me so long to finish this book is I could not really summon to motivation to carry on reading it. For short stories, the stories are very slow paced. I did not really care for most of the characters, and it DEFINITELY DOES NOT add anything to the Last Jedi movie. The one think I did like in this book was that as were re-used/mentioned from story to story.I could have learned everything I needed to know about Canto Bight from the two lines spo...

5 starsI really enjoyed this and was quite surprised how well the stories gelled together even though they were by different authors .In Star Wars world building is always key and this is no different. Its expansive , expressive and huge and just so engaging.The characters are strong and even though we don't get any fan favourites the new ones are excellent. I love the diversity of characters you get in Star Wars and this is no exception.For me each story built on the last and i really enjoyed t...

3.5 stars. Like the collection of short stories "From a Certain Point of View", this collection of four novellas focus on the little guys in the background, the ones you might catch for a second before turning back to the main action. Canto Bight is where the rich of the galaxy go to play, and the rest, well, they get to keep their lives, if they're lucky. Though each author focuses on a different main character, there are characters common to each story. A guy on his first vacation as a reward

I’d suggest reading Canto Bight after watching the Last Jedi. The film gives some context and perspective to the casino town which is hard to imagine from the limited exposure the 4 novellas offer. Whilst good in their own right, the lack of a predefined visual aide dampers the atmosphere in the novellas – the casino town is not Las Vegas nor does it compare in the film to it as such, so having a preconceived notion of the cityscape is recommended.The first novella, Rules of the Game by Saladin

3.5 Stars~"Derla settles into her ship's chair like she is coming home--and in a very real way, she is. Canto Bight was only, is only, ever a port in the storm."Canto Bight is an anthology of four novellas which focuses on background characters from the gambling resort in The Last Jedi and their stories. That's one of the (many) beautiful things about Star Wars. There are just.. so many characters.In the film, Resistance members Finn and Rose venture to Canto Bight on a mission. The inclusion of...

The first two stories were GREAT. The last two were duds. I was kind of tired of hearing about Canto Bight by the end, and I am one of the rare few who actually enjoyed Canto Bight in the film.

All four of the stories are written well, but it was hard to get into them. Rae Carson's was by far my favorite. Though the other three stories fit in with the Canto Bight setting, they did not have the usual Star Wars feel to them.

I started to get depressed reading Canto Bight. So I furiously started mapping out the new canon with magazine clippings and twine and big question marks like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. Then I got online and started making petitions, spent all my money on billboards, and turned on fandom like a jackal nipping at the tail of an elephant. I sank down into a deep, dark, lonely hole. Just screaming into the abyss. Finally I awoke from this fever dream. I realized that just like the EU there

This “prequel” in the road to the Last Jedi features a location that will be a setting in the upcoming movie. It features 4 novellas that take place in Canto Bight. Canto Bight reminds me of the many Cantinas and Casinos in the Star Wars games, i.e Knights of the Old Republic etc. It also makes me wonder why Lando Calrissian isn’t in this movie. This is his kind of place. Han, too would have been right at home. The 4 stories are very good. They certainly give you a feel for this city. I would al...

I have to say, this was an off series of stories. But in truth I sort of like living in the Star Wars universe so I'm fairly happy with any content. I think the first two stories were the ones I enjoyed the most. The one with the wine and the odd sisters was by far my favorite. Their arrogance sort of solidified that they may in fact be from the very place where the force "lives" one of my favorite clone wars episodes was when anakin, obi-wan, and Ashoka find them living embodiments of the force...

Bleech. This did not have the feel of being Star Wars related. This could have been any generic 'casino' science fiction book. Maybe the "Last Jedi" movie will change that. I am posting this 1 week before movie comes out. It might have been better to listen after the movie.

This book is part of the new canon and its setting is the casino city that we saw in the movie The Last Jedi. It is a collection of four short stories that details four lives of a Canto Bight resident and each story has a connection with another story.Do you like your Star Wars have lightsaber duels, spaceship battles, or good versus evil? Then this book is not for you. These stories are decent stories but the only real Star Wars connection is that a character was a member of the many species we...

The stories we see in this book each do a good job of of keeping you interested while making you care about the characters. Being able to see a planet so thoroughly built and described is a rarity in the EU, and it is very refreshing.However, given that it is full of short stories it is still difficult to get too invested in characters and you more of feel the obligatory "good guy should win" feeling. Overall, a good read for those already invested in the Star Wars Universe.

Canto Bight... the casino in the Last Jedi. This book is a collection of 4 stories of different goings-ons around the world. I went into not knowing what to expect, although I hoped for it to be a little like the Tales from the Cantina from a long time ago... that told stories of all the inhabitants of the first Star Wars cantina. Here, you get to know some characters that I'll have to take a look for... I just looked in my visual dictionary and found almost all of the characters in the stories,...

Coyer Winter SwitchThis volume ties into The Last Jedi and focuses on the brief glimpses of the aliens briefly featured in the casino scene of the film.Four authors share four different stories that sometimes overlap in little cameos. My favorite story in this collection was The Wine a dreams, a story featuring four women of power negotiating over a rare bottle of wine. This story by Mira Grant had me wishing for more adventures with these ladies. I loved that one of the characters has the quali...

Due to finishing this in the car I’m actually writing this review after having seen the last Jedi. While I won’t give any spoilers Tyler I will tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the novellas in this book. I especially liked how they tied into each other. And I also enjoyed how they tied in to the last Jedi. The final novella in here by John Jackson Miller especially for some reason just made me smile and have a good time right along with the characters.

I loved this book. The telling of these individual stories of life on Canto Bight. Did it have great impact on The Last Jedi? No. But I found myself getting lost in each story. And I feel it really painted a picture of that world! Harkening back to the Legends expanded universe!I'm not gonna lie, I had to flip ahead on Kedpin's story, cause if he was gonna end up hurt or taken advantage of, I was gonna be out!!! I really loved that story in particular!But each one was uniquely interesting!