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Phasma (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Kindle Edition
One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the favor of her superiors, the respect of her peers, and the terror of her enemies. But for all her renown, Phasma remains as virtually unknown as the impassive expression on her gleaming chrome helmet. Now, an adversary is bent on unearthing her mysterious origins—and exposing a secret she guards as zealously and ruthlessly as she serves her masters.
Deep inside the Battlecruiser Absolution, a captured Resistance spy endures brutal interrogation at the hands of a crimson-armored stormtrooper—Cardinal. But the information he desires has nothing to do with the Resistance or its covert operations against the First Order.
What the mysterious stormtrooper wants is Phasma’s past—and with it whatever long-buried scandal, treachery, or private demons he can wield against the hated rival who threatens his own power and privilege in the ranks of the First Order. His prisoner has what Cardinal so desperately seeks, but she won’t surrender it easily. As she wages a painstaking war of wills with her captor, bargaining for her life in exchange for every precious revelation, the spellbinding chronicle of the inscrutable Phasma unfolds. But this knowledge may prove more than just dangerous once Cardinal possesses it—and once his adversary unleashes the full measure of her fury.
Praise for Phasma
“Fury Road meets The Force Awakens . . . a much-needed origin story for one of the new Star Wars saga’s most mysterious characters.”—The Verge
“Dark, gripping, and entertaining.”—Roqoo Depot
“Fabulous, utterly engrossing.”—Kirkus Reviews
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRandom House Worlds
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2017
- File size6907 KB
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The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams. | Written with input from director Rian Johnson, this official adaptation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi expands on the film to include scenes from alternate versions of the script and other additional content. | Based on unproduced episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this new novel features Asajj Ventress, former Sith apprentice turned bounty hunter and one of the great antiheroes in the Star Wars galaxy. | When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely on each other, the Force, and their own ruthlessness to prevail. |
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“Dark, gripping, and entertaining.”—Roqoo Depot
“Fabulous, utterly engrossing.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“Your place or mine?” Vi asks, hoping to goad him into moving aside.
But the man in red is silent, the gun always rammed into some soft place on her body and the spherical droid floating by his side. Her leather jacket has built-in armor plating, but it wouldn’t do much to stop a fatal shot at this distance. Thing is, she knows he’s not going to shoot her. But she has to play along. When she slowly begins to take her hands down, he clicks his tongue at her.
“Tsk. Hands on head. You know how this works, scum.”
The blaster shoves into her kidney, and her hands go right back up. “Look, I’m not scum. I don’t know who you think I am, but I’m just a trader. Maybe I smuggle a little, but who doesn’t? And wouldn’t that be the New Republic’s jurisdiction, anyway? Did I travel back in time? Shouldn’t I be in a cell, waiting to speak to some cadaverous bureaucrat in a jaunty hat?”
The lift door slides open, and he shoves her out into a hall that’s downright dungeonous. They didn’t see anyone farther up, and Vi is willing to bet that’s due to a combination of this trooper’s knowledge of the ship’s rigorous schedule and his droid’s meddling, as it sometimes pushed ahead to lead. But down here—well, it’s clear nobody goes down here. Except people doing things they shouldn’t be doing.
The lighting is dim and flickering, and there’s something dripping, maybe runoff from the vent system. They’re deep in the bowels of the Star Destroyer, then, in an area that’s generally off-limits or beneath notice. And that’s not good for Vi. Even the First Order has rules, and the red trooper is breaking them. If this guy kills her, he won’t even have to do datawork. She’ll just be another load of garbage sliding down toward the incinerator.
Great. The Resistance doesn’t know much about the enemy they’re facing, and the New Republic doesn’t consider them a threat, which means Vi hasn’t been briefed on the protocol these people generally follow. She doesn’t know what to expect. She’s been trained to resist interrogation, but she also doesn’t know what new toys this guy in red might have. A chill trickles down her spine. She might be in over her head.
“They put you in the penthouse, huh, Emergency Brake?” she says, because she always babbles when truly worried. “Top-notch accommodations. Can we get room service?”
The blaster doesn’t leave her spine. Her captor gives her directions— turn here, turn there—but doesn’t respond to her taunting. Finally, he presses a long code into a control panel on the wall, and a door slides open far less smoothly than Vi would expect in what’s obviously a new ship. The room inside is colder than it should be and smells of moisture, metal, and, no point in denying it, blood. The spherical droid hurries inside first and turns off the cams, one by one. Vi pauses on the threshold, but the trooper finally touches her, shoving her hard with a gloved hand so that she stumbles to her knees, her fingers curling into a rusty grate set in the floor.
“Get up.”
“You really know how to treat a girl right.”
He reaches into her jacket’s collar and hauls her to her feet, spinning her around. She staggers into the wall, putting her back against the cold metal. The room isn’t large, maybe three meters by four, and it clearly has only one use: interrogation. Well, two uses, if you count torture. Three, if you include the inevitable death promised by the fact that she’s not going to give up any intel on the Resistance. The space is dominated by an interrogation chair, and the only other furnishings are a simple table and two rickety metal chairs, a place for the bad guys to sit down with a cup of caf and go over their notes while their victim bleeds out, probably.
“I hope the linens are clean.”
He shakes his head like he’s disappointed, grabs her jacket lapels, and drags her to the interrogation chair. They call it a chair, but it’s actually like a gurney standing on end with metal pincers to restrain her head, chest, and wrists as she stands on the metal lip. As part of her training, Vi was shown dozens of images of such machines ranging back from the days of the Empire’s Inquisitors to more sophisticated units currently being manufactured for Hutts and other thugs with too much money and a need to get information while keeping their slimy hands clean. This unit, she’s sad to notice, has life-support capabilities and a mind probe, which means her captor can bypass discussion and go straight to her brain. Vi has been trained to withstand fists and weapons, but no one has yet found a way to evade direct attacks on the nervous system. She contemplates the poison tooth implanted in the back of her jaw for the first time, running her tongue over it as her captor snaps the metal manacles closed around her arms and torso.
She won’t bite down yet. There’s still a way out of here. There has to be. With everything she knows now, surviving will mean major strides for the Resistance. They’ll have a better idea of what they’re truly fighting, in numbers, technology, and enemy mindset. But that means she’s got to find a way to live through this interrogation with her mind and body intact. And that means she’s got to stop focusing on her own predicament and start paying attention to her enemy and what makes him tick.
Luckily, she knows a lot more about him than he knows about her.
After strapping her in, he checks the panel monitoring her vital signs, flicking it with a finger.
“Your heart rate is up,” he notes.
“Yeah, well, I’m strapped into a torture chair, standing on somebody else’s dried blood. Seems like a natural response.”
“You’ve got something to hide.”
“Who doesn’t?”
His red helmet tips, just a fraction, conceding the point. As she watches him, he moves around the edges of the room, double-checking the cam feeds his droid already shut off, as well as what she’d guess is the comm system. The droid hovers ominously beside his shoulder, and he makes the rounds slowly, as if giving a warning.
This is not official.
This is off the record.
No one else is watching.
There will be no interruptions, no reprieves.
This is not how the First Order does things.
“So this is personal,” Vi notes.
“We shall see. It’s up to you. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
Vi wiggles, testing the strength of her bonds. “Letting me go would be really, really easy. Besides, you can search me all you want, but I don’t have anything useful. Let your boys tear my ship apart, deconstruct my droid, unravel my sweater, poke around in my brain all day. Whoever you think I am, you’re wrong. I’m just a harmless passerby.”
He stands before her now, legs spread and arms crossed. His blaster is clipped on his hip, red and gleaming. His red-gloved fingers tap against it, another reminder. It’s just the two of them and his droid. Anything could happen.
“You are Vi Moradi, code name Starling, known Resistance spy. And you have the very intel I need.”
“And you’re the Big Red Button. What happens if I poke you in the chest? Does a light turn on somewhere? Does something explode?”
“You don’t deny it?”
She would shrug if she weren’t manacled and strapped down. “You’re the one running the torture, so you’re the one who gets to decide what’s true and what’s not.”
“You were on Parnassos.”
Vi is too well trained to grin.
“Was I? And what’s so important about Parnassos?”
Her captor considers her. “Nothing. That’s the point. Now tell me what you know about Captain Phasma.”
Product details
- ASIN : B071YBLDCB
- Publisher : Random House Worlds (September 1, 2017)
- Publication date : September 1, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 6907 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 473 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #560,009 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #232 in Star Wars Series
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Delilah S. Dawson is the author of:
Star Wars: Phasma, Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, and The Perfect Weapon.
The Hit series
The Blud series
The Minecraft Mob Squad series
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Short stories in: Hellboy, An Assortment of Horror; Carniepunk; Unbound; Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life, Three Slices, Robots vs. Fairies, Resist, Stories of Jedi and Sith and more.
Comics: Ladycastle Sparrowhawk, Star Pig, Marvel Action: Spider-Man, Adventure Time, the X-Files, Firefly, Disney Descendants, Rick and Morty.
As Lila Bowen: The Shadow series, beginning with Wake of Vultures.
With Kevin Hearne: The Tales of Pell, beginning with Kill the Farm Boy.
Learn more at www.delilahsdawson.com.
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Customers find the backstory interesting and vivid, with insights into First Order training. They also describe the characters as richer and more interesting. Readers praise the writing style as approachable and carefully revealed details. They describe the writing quality as fascinating and speaks to its quality. Customers also mention the construction as gripping and holds their interest all the way through. Opinions differ on the pacing, with some finding it nice and others slow at the start.
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Customers find the writing quality fascinating, modern, and well done. They also say the story does an amazing job building Phasma as a character, which wasn't done well in the films. Customers also say it's a great Star Wars novel and science fiction.
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"...just under 400 pages and is a pretty quick reading book with a story that flows well. I definitely recommend it." Read more
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Customers find the book content great and cool. They also say the introduction of Vi and Cardinal is very cool.
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Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson rights what TFA got wrong, or rather, what it didn’t have to begin with.
Dawson paints an amazingly complex, competent, and commanding character in Phasma. From her post-apocalyptic homeworld a la Mad Max, Parnassos, Phasma jointly rules a war-like clan with her brother. But, when a First Order ship containing General Brendol Hux (the father of the General Armitage Hux), the world and way of life of Phasma’s clan is turned upside down. The novel follows the odyssey of Phasma and her small group of loyal warriors (not including her brother) as they escort General Hux and his surviving troopers back to his ship to call the First Order to rescue them. The group endures brutal physical hardships along the way, and the hellish journey seems to shape Phasma into the sharpest tool she was always destined to become. Phasma is a cold and calculated warrior with little time for personal friendships and relationships. She is Machiavellian to her core, even if it means betraying her own people and family. Above all else, Phasma is a survivor. She is highly skilled, and amazingly adaptive and intelligent. While mental and physical hardships would beat a soft (or “normal”) person down, Phasma is honed into a sharper weapon because of them. She conquers her obstacles and is continually made stronger by them. It is because of all these qualities that General Hux recognizes Phasma would be more than beneficial and fitting for the First Order. And coming from a dying planet with little resources and a low survival rate, Phasma and her warriors are willing to risk nearly everything to have a better life, and possibly, bring what technology and civilization the First Order has to offer back to their clan on Parnassos. The reader knows this aspiration is naive and idealistic, but one of General Brendol Hux’s main tasks is to find strong warriors on back water planets to train into weapons of the First Order��and he’ll say anything to hook those people in to serve the First Order. And, as the survivor she is, Phasma rises above the rest to become the literal poster child of the First Order.
With all of Phasma’s abilities, it begs the questions, then, how Finn was able to best her in TFA. The Phasma Dawson writes is not one to give up or shy away from a challenge, even with a blaster pointed at her head. My only guess would be that perhaps she let him best her. And if my hunch is correct, then Phasma’s arc may be more complex in the films to come (I hope,) i.e. she defects from the First Order at the first signs that it’s going to be the losing side.
I think the very writing and releasing of this book was Disney’s way of saying, okay we know we really short-changed you on Phasma when we marketed her so much. I appreciate we got this rich backstory, but I also very much hope that her role has been greatly expanded in The Last Jedi.
I also want to note that the prevailing reason I read Star Wars novels is to keep up to date on the universe canon. So to that point, I don’t exactly read SW books expecting literary masterpieces. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the tale Dawson wove. Phasma is definitely an “on the edge of your seat” read, and you want to go through quickly to find out what happens next (it’s a framed story,) mostly because Phasma is such a compelling and enigmatic character. Phasma is one of the best Star Wars novels I’ve read in a long time, and a great fleshing out of the captivating Captain Phasma.
While Phasma doesn’t get a lot of screen time in the Star Wars movies, this book does Phasma’s character a lot of justice in explaining who she is, why she appears different from other imperial Storm Troopers, her motives with the First Order, and just how ruthlessly intelligent she can be.
Phasma’s plot shifts back and forth between a First Order officer interrogating a capture Resistance soldier in order to find a way to assasinate Phasma and the origin story of Phasma on her home world. I enjoyed the story of Captain Phasma because this book also explored but also explored her home planet which appears to have a Mad Max feel. Learning about the hostile inhabitants, wildlife, and how the world came to be helps to show justify why Phasma has to be a ruthless warrior.
Some people may not like how the story jumps back and forth from Phasma’s story to two character in an interrogation room. There are moments where I was really into Phasma’s journey only to be annoyed with the interrogation room conversation slowing down the pace. Toward the end, the two separate stories come together to resolve the plot in a way that demonstrates how strong, intelligent, and ruthless Captain Phasma is in the Star Wars universe.
Phasma also helps the reader to get a deeper understanding of The First Order, the philosophy of this antagonistic army, and their storm trooper army. I particularly enjoyed reading about the two storm troopers who accompanied Phasma in her story since it helps me see how these solders view their role in the First Order and how they affect Phasma’s stance in the galaxy. Reading this book helped me see the movies in a new perspective as to why these soldiers are taking part in threatening army that plans on conquering the galaxy.
I felt that the book wraps up rather quickly in the end and ties up a lot of loose ends so unexpectedly that it makes me want more toward the end. I like rearming how Phasma helps to show why Captain Phasma gets to keep her name and not replace it with a random number set and I enjoyed knowing why her armor is so different from Storm Troopers but it comes so sudden and I felt like I would have liked another book to expand her story. I don’t know if Captain Phasma’s role is being saved for something big in the Star Wars films, but I am hoping to get more out of this character since this book got me to appreciate the character in a way the films haven’t.
If you can get passed the two different plots going on and the swift conclusion, Phasma is still a fascinating read that helps share a great deal of the villainous soldier and the Lore of Star Wars. The book can move quickly if you let yourself get carried away in the plot and leave you with a bigger understanding about How much of a threat Phasma can play in the Star Wars universe. I recommend reading this book to Star Wars fans and those who enjoy a compelling story.
The novel essentially alternates between the present and the past (about a decade prior) which provides the origin story for Phasma. We learn that Phasma grew up in a barren world called Parnassos, in which nomadic clans fought for the scares resources of the planet. We learn how Phasma met General Hux's father, Brendol, and was brought into the remnants of the Empire, and then about her rise through the First Order. The novel is not told from Phasma's perspective. In the present, the novel shifts between Cardinal's interrogation of Vi, and his planning to take down, and ultimate confrontation with, Phasma.
The novel is very good and provides a good backstory for a character that was vastly underused in the movies. The book also sets up a subsequent novel set shortly after the events of this one. If you are one of the people who only read some, but not all, of the canon Star Wars novels, I do think that this one is worth the read. It is just under 400 pages and is a pretty quick reading book with a story that flows well. I definitely recommend it.
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