[GuardianAngel87]

I just finished Star Wars: Phasma not too long ago myself and it was okay. It is certainly better than the Aftermath trilogy but at the same time, it took me a while to really get going in my progress of reading the book. While the Scyre culture seemed a bit interesting, at least a good chunk of Parnassos from which the novel spent two-thirds of the time through didn't seem like it could be an actual story within the Star Wars universe and the dialogue is rather off to me half the time. I kind of wished that the overall story is in Phasma's perspective including on how she rose up in the ranks within the First Order. I can easily imagine the character's voice as portrayed by Gwendoline Christie in her lines of dialogue though especially towards near the end where Cardinal confronts her. Speaking of Cardinal, he's the only character that's exclusive to the book that's actually rather interesting and to me, once the novel was finished with the story on Parnassos is where the novel does more or less pick up. In my opinion, he's basically what Finn in TFA should've been. Not to say that some of the characters in the book are bad but still. All in all, outside of various details regarding Captain Phasma's backstory if you really must know what she's like before the events of The Force Awakens and its upcoming sequels, Phasma is really nothing special. And now that I'm finally free from reading post-ROTJ story materials from the Disney canon, the next SW novel I will be reading now is From A Certain Point of View. After that, it's Claudia Gray's third foray in Star Wars novel writing with Leia, Princess of Alderaan.