I am definitely not the target audience for this book. It reads a little younger than Lost Stars and has a lot of teen romance elements. But it was a fun story with likable, believable original characters and has a satisfying conclusion.

New characters! They don’t all die! Takes place almost completely on a single planet!

Awesome book. One of my favourite book from the Disney Star Wars era was Lost Stars. This story is right up there with that one. You never know how one person in one day will change your life.This book is set in the during the Force Awakens era after the First Order declaration of war. This is not an action packed story but it very enjoyable. Star Wars is the backdrop for the story however Zoraida Cordove describes the Star Wars Universe perfectly.Izzy and Jules story is awesome. This book is a

So many mixed feelings! Wish I could be a coward and skip the star rating portion, because there were parts I really loved and then other parts that were so-so but it's mostly down to just one or two cringey story choices that made me park this one at 3 instead of 4 or even 5 stars.First off, I think I delayed reading this for as long as I did not because I have anything against a book that's marketed as YA (Lost Stars is my favourite Star Wars book after all) but because I was leary about the t...

*2.75Ugh, I wish I liked this more.I was looking forward to this one - I did really love the premise of it, and I had it on audiobook. Star Wars audiobooks are the best. And this one's audiobook really sold it for me - it has all the sound effects and background noise that you can expect, but it also did something that I haven't seen a lot of the SW audiobooks do. It had music playing in the background for many of the scenes, even the ones where there wasn't music actively playing in a cantina o...

3.5 stars

According to Wookieepedia, at this moment the new Star Wars canon comprises 9 young adult novels (with a 10th coming out next November). I have read them all. Some are so good that I have reread them a few times (Lost Stars, Ahsoka). My problem with this YA novel is that it's the least Star-Warsy book I've read in this new canon. What you read in many chapters could happen in any universe. Except for a scarce few mentions to the Resistance and the First Order, and some name-dropping (Naboo, Mand...

At its best, A Crash of Fate does what I always hope a Star Wars novel will do: shows what the galaxy is like for normal people unconnected with the political conflict between good and evil. Most beings in the galaxy will probably never leave their home planet, never meet a Jedi, never have much interest in the galactic government and military. But most of the SW stories we get are directly affected by all of that, even when the protagonists are not named movie characters. In this novel, the sto...

This book takes place along the timeline of the new trilogy. It is a YA book that tells the story of two star crossed lovers in a galaxy far, far away. In this one, Jules and Izzy are childhood friends when Izzy's family abruptly moves away. Years later Izzy returns back to her home planet and runs into Jules and an adventure ensues.I have already read a book about star crossed lovers that exist in this universe and it is called Lost Stars. It probably isn't fair to compare this book to Lost Sta...

Part of me has to hold this review with an open hand and admit that it wasn't for me. It was, in that it had Star Wars on the cover, but it wasn't because it was a YA love story at heart. So I don't want to be too harsh. So keep all of that in mind as you read this review. I think this book will go down in Star Wars history as...fairly average. (Doing a longer review here because a friend asked!) As a Star Wars novel, it doesn't really do much to set it apart as unique. It's a kinda generic stor...

Zoraida is now a Star Wars historian and I think that is great. I feel like Star Wars has lost its luster for me, but I read this solely because Z wrote it and I enjoyed Izzy and Jule's story so much. Both their early connection and their meet-cute in the middle of this sci-fi adventure really compelled me to keep going. Also, the production on the audiobook was amazing.

“May the spires keep you.”Here I go again, back on my bullshit.A Crash of Fate is a novel tie-in for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. My friend was able to get an ARC at BEA and share it with me so I could read it before going to the theme park. It follows two POVs: Izzy and Jules, two childhood friends who got separated for 13 years and then brought back together for an adventure. Jules, who’d always wanted to leave Batuu, has been sticking around and working as a farmer, while Izzy tried her hand as

This wasn't bad; I didn't love it or hate it. I like Cordova's writing generally, although still, Claudia Gray creates the overall best Star Wars stories I think. Here I did like the characters, the setting, and the basic premise, but I'm never a fan of books where everything takes place in a single day. It always seems unrealistic when a lot of action takes place, and I really like more character development. This would be the main reason I would rate this book below other Star Wars YA books I

I was so excited for this novel. I had it marked on my calendar and went immediately to the mailbox on its release date so I could dive right in. I fully expected to be reading late into the night and finish within a day. Unfortunately, I had to force myself to pick up this book. This is Star Wars, which I love more than anything in this world. It’s also a YA romance, which is my guilty pleasure. I was expecting this to be another Lost Stars. This novel had none of the charm of Lost Stars and mo...

I was a bit surprised to see an editor named in the acknowledgements, because this book seems like it didn't have one. I won't nitpick too much about the typos and copy errors -- after all, maybe I'm the crazy one, and people on Batuu really do "run raster" and consistently forget whether the nouns they're describing are singular or plural. And I won't nitpick about the constant continuity errors (maybe Batuuans often suddenly change their decisions and opinions between one page and the next?),

I believe this is my first 1 star review and I am so glad to give it to this novel. Jarringly horrible prose, unlikeable and inconsistent characters, a needless POV gimmick for characters that are usually together making the book read like a 14 year olds Wattpad fanfic, awful structuring and padding, a plot that's going nowhere, and just everything. It's just awful. And with such a transparently grimy LITERAL mystery box component, it's like the author knew they were writing garbage. A complete

My feelings of this book are conflicting. For one, I actually like Disney taking their approach to the Star Wars EU by writing stories that do not involve the Skywalker bloodline. This causes the Star Wars universe to be extensive and opens up new doors for characters that aren't controlled by the force or have a relation to jedi, the empire, or the first order. I love the idea of reading a Star Wars book that is just about normal people in the Star Wars universe. I think this is great. The book...

I have a few thoughts. All in all it was a very cute story. I really enjoyed it, in a different way then the way I wanted to like it. It's a starwars novel...so it sld be, ya know, like a starwars novel right? Do starwars and plan romance mesh togeather well??? In my book, no, not entirely. I was disappointed because this was more a romance, and you all know I love my romances! But I love my Starwars too. It's my favorite universe to escape too. But this seemed to be all romance...yes there was

All in all, I probably would give A Crash of Fate 2-1/2 stars, if possible. It was a little bit better than "OK" but not quite to the point of "I liked it" (the 3-star rating).When I picked up Cordova's Star Wars novel, I wasn't aware it was a YA novel (I am unfamiliar with her works). I think she did a pretty good job of developing Izzy's and Jules's characters, their motivations, etc., but beyond that, everyone was pretty tepid in the character-development state. And the motivation for Izzy's

Actual Rating: 3.5 starsA Crash of Fate is a fun adventure romance set in the world of Galaxy's Edge (the new Star Wars area in the Disney theme parks). I was really excited to pick this up because I will be going to Disneyland this summer and it was really fun to get descriptions of some key locations I expect to see there! This story in particular follows childhood friends reconnecting and developing feelings for each other while having adventures on the outpost planet of Batuu. I didn't reali...