3.75*"Mission to Disaster" is the final junior novel in the first phase of The High Republic. It's once again written by Justina Ireland and about the characters we met in "A Test of Courage". To me, Mission to Disaster is definitely Justina's best work in the High Republic yet. "A Test of Courage" had some minor pacing issues and "Out of the Shadows" just wasn't for me. It's also the best junor novel in my opinion.It's a fast paced, fun adventure that's not the cliché "escape the unknown planet...

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**4.5-stars**Mission to Disaster is a Junior Star Wars novel set in the era of the High Republic. The events in this novel follow those of the 2021-HR releases, but still 200-years prior to The Phantom Menace.After the startling events of the Republic Fair, the galaxy has been put on alert. The Nihil are much more of a threat than the Jedi initially anticipated.They're cunning and calculated, seeming to have influence everywhere.Kicking off this novel, I was quickly reunited with one of my favor...

3.5 starsTwo hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the Jedi are the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. I am not the target audience for this story, but as an educator I always like to recommend good stories to young reads as well as teens. This story guides and lets a young reader use their imagination. The audiobook is great; the sound effects give the feeling of being part of the action! Additionally Keylor Leigh, the narrator did a great job performing

The books produced by Disney-Lucasfilm press have had a suprisingly mixed reaction from both me and from the fandom. The Young Adult books have ranged from excellent to terrible, the worst books being the entries in the High Republic, while the Middle Grade books have been consistently "ok" or possibly "good". That all changes with this book, which finally broke the Middle Grade mold and became the first amazing Middle Grade book in the High Republic series. What I loved about this book is the p...

While I read this novel after The Fallen Star, it is important to know the plot of Mission to Disaster actually takes place before it. You’ll notice this pretty quickly when you start the book, but it has since also been confirmed by the authors (see Daniel José Older’s Twitter). Storywise, by now, the ranks of the Nihil have been thinned through the efforts of the Republic and the Jedi, making the youngest Jedi Knight in generations, Vernestra Rwoh, hope to finally have enough time to train her...

Ok the cliffhanger though 👀

This really did not feel like a children’s/middle grade book! It was very mature and excellently written. Justina Ireland writes ‘her’ characters of Vern and Avon absolutely impeccably.

Each “wave” of Phase 1 of The High Republic publishing initiative has included three sets of new novels – one adult fiction, one YA-novel, and one junior-grade story, all of which tend to “float” in and around one another narratively, but also tell their own individual stories. For the most part, the junior-grade level novels – of which “Mission to Disaster” is the third so far – have varied, quality-wise, between being “good, albeit unremarkable” and “entirely forgettable." “Mission to Disaster...

This book was so much better than I expected

I really liked Justina Ireland’s first High Republic junior novel, A Test of Courage, but this one wasn’t quite as good to me. I felt like she was really constrained in what plot she could include and where the book had to end, so the resultant book was a bit more lackluster.Somewhere in Disney Star Wars HQ, there must be an enormous wall-sized board with all of the links between these different HR phase 1 books and the timeline of how they relate to each other and which characters pop up in whi...

This is another offering in The High Republic series. This is a novella aimed at young children. That being said there were parts of the book that read more like a novel for adults than for children. Nothing graphic. I guess what I am saying this book wasn't dumbed down for the target audience. In this one, the Nihil are weak and they are kidnapping children to strengthen their numbers. One of the children they end up kidnapping is very close to our Jedi heroes.I have stated before I am not a fa...

8/10:Again, Justina Ireland knocks it out of the park with this incredible Star Wars story! Not only do we see the return of Vern, Imri, and Avon, we get to see so many complicated emotions and events throughout the galaxy. Yes, this story is aimed at younger readers than myself, but that doesn’t take away from the emotional impacts this had on me. Brilliant!

Imri is my SON

Easily the best of the young reader novels. Again, Vernestra Rwoh stars in this book about trying to save Avon Starros, her friend from “A Test of Courage” who has been kidnapped by the Nihil, and forced to help build a weapon that can destroy a planet

remember when audible accidentally released an audiobook two months early? yeah me too😂but i swear if anything happens to vern after this…..it’s on sight lucasfilm

Justina Ireland has been one of the most steady and consistent authors in the entire High Republic publishing initiative. Mission to Disaster is yet another solid story that is entertaining and also introduces new potential storylines to round out the first phase. Taking place before the events of The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray, this book is a more centralized story focusing on a smaller cast of characters. Ireland brings Avon Starros, Vernestra Rwoh, and Imri Cantaros back to the forefront, an...

I enjoyed this delightful story in between the bigger novels of the High Republic. Generally, it really ties in with the concurrent stories happening all around the galaxy at this point, and the overarching mood is still as dreadful and excitable as ever! It's fun! During the end, however, I felt rather rushed when reading it, but otherwise, I don't have any complaints. Another stellar addition to the High Republic mythos!