The Three Chapter Preview For 'Star Wars: Into the Light' Features Stunning Scenes
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The High Republic is set to begin its final wave of storytelling in just two weeks with Into the Light by Claudia Gray. As part of an incentive to drive preorders, Kobo revealed a preview of the novel, made up of the first three chapters, which contained stunning scenes we feel have to be discussed.
WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for the first three chapters of Into The Light.
The first two chapters of this novel feel like the beginning of a Young Avengers film. Our whole young adult cast is here, characters we have come to know and care about over the past 4 years, and they’re here doing amazing things as a team. They’re working to save a moon heavily impacted by the destructive blight that is sweeping the galaxy, but we immediately see a major tonal shift with this story.
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Claudia Gray’s previous writing in The High Republic has had tinges of horror to it, but the menace of this novel right out of the gate is stark. Because the moon is naturally dusty and arid, huge clouds of dust are being kicked up, and Reath Silas constantly has the dreadful thought that any of his Jedi friends, and countless civilians, could be breathing in the blight every moment they are exposed to this dust. There is also a shockingly sudden death, though rest assured it is none of the main cast from prior novels, none of our Star Wars Young Avengers. Still, its brutal nature and Reath’s mindset help to strike a decidedly more morbid and terrifying tone.
A section of Chapter 2 and all of Chapter 3 shifts focus to the villains, exploring Ghirra Starros, Nan, Dr. Mkampa, and Marchion Ro in quick succession. But, Dr. Mkampa’s story section is the most intriguing. In it, alone aboard her personal ship, she chooses to break from the Nihil, and instead pursue a very different path, by revealing she has found and seemingly intends to access a Sith holocron. The Sith haven’t been absent from storytelling in The High Republic, as we have heard several stories and details told about them and had the appearance of Sith artifacts. But Sith holocrons being held and accessed by characters in canon stories is incredibly rare, and Mkampa’s possession of one sets up many fascinating questions and avenues of exploration for this novel. It also may hint that whoever might appear out of this holocron will be a character we see more of in the future.
Into the Dark releases on April 1st, 2025.
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