Great production.and writing

Loved this, it really brought the battle to life and the actors were fantastic. Great story too. Can't wait ti find out what happens next!

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pretty straight forward story, no twist or surprises. it's a nice listen for the daily ruitines.

This theatrical version, I don't like. it makes carraters sound a bit simple ... a shame I my opinion.

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Weak for Star Wars

I've listened to many Star Wars books, and this was the worst. I'm glad it was not a long listen, as it would have put me on the edge. I wouldn't say I liked the theatrical format, as it felt like watching a TV show with my eyes closed. There are too many characters, and it's better with one narrator playing multiple characters. I'm on to book three, and I believe the format is back to normal.

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A pressure cooker of a city is about to explode

Bringing the two major plotlines from Path of Deceit and Convergence together, the bubbling animosity meet the meddling Path's machinations to deliver one hell of a fight.

The story jumps well between a good number of perspectives as we build up to and fight through the conflict. It's a lot tighter than previous moments in The High Republic, like Rising Storm and Fallen Star, there are often too many characters to jump between.

Jedha succeeds as an audio play by having unique actors embodying the roles so jumping around is a lot easier.

I really enjoyed this story and look forward to where the aftermath takes us.

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An engaging Mystery, with a hard-fought battle!

I might be biased as this was the first High Republic book I read/listened too and I loved it. Knowing a tiny bit about Jedah from Rogue One made it easier to imagine the setting and it helped that both our protagonists Creighton Sun and Silandra Sho were extremely likeable with Sun being the more serious, diplomatic and by the books type of jedi, but he still cracked a few jokes and he's dutiful as they come, Sho's fun, kind, compassionate and thoughtful, a SOLID JEDI not to mention she's a badass in combat that Shield combo was HYPE. If they appear in Live Action I hope they keep the voice actors and let them reprise their roles as they did a phenomenal job at bringing these characters to life and I love their dynamic/friendship/chemistry. The whole cast was really good and the supporting characters like The Mother, Marda Ro, The herald, Kradon and P3 (who gave me ANH Luke and 3CPO vibes) were all great additions. The sound mixing/FX also made it more cinematic.

The storyline was very enjoyable from start to finish but the path of the open hand, god damn were they annoying but I like seeing different perspectives on the force. The war between the neighbouring planets was definitely fitting/relevent in our current real world climate and the escalation was built up perfectly the mystery of the bombing and the fallout played out perfectly, I thought it was very engaging and as I said before thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish.

A cool experience especially as an Audiobook. I'd definitely give it a 9/10 or 4.5/5 Stars Highly recommended. I just hope the other books in Phase 2/ the rest of the Era are just as good.

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The absolute WORST Star Wars audio book ever! (with even worse acting and dialogue than The Acolyte!!)

Over-acted and cringingly trite. With earnest posh British accents for EVERY male jedi master (Kenobi wannabe's).
Too many heroic and earnest speeches.
Someone dies horribly? It's ok, he's with the force now.
Impossible dilemma? Trust in the force, it will guide and deliver us...
The dialogue is so bad and so dire. It makes me want to use as many expletives as possible - just to emphasise my point. The voice actors performed a story more fit for a kindergarten than anything else.
Jeez... I still can't how bad it really was.

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Not good

The first hour and a half is characters being introduced, giving exposition for other books, and awkwardly laughing. That's over a quarter of the play.
There tend to be 2 types of star wars books, those in which a good writer concentrates on 1-2 characters (usually interesting ones established in films), focuses on what they're doing and has the occasional slice of other perspectives for context, and those where the writer/writing group make up 5 protagonists and a mass of side characters who you don't care about because we don't get to know them and they're typically poorly writen.
this is the latter.
The writing is so full of cliches it is infuriating. The performance of the cast is poor, though mercifully not just Marc Thompson overacting every line.

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Don't bother!

I quite enjoyed phase 2 of the two High Republic books. Sure there's been better books. I thought this might be an interesting filler, but what a boring pointless audio. You wouldn't miss anything of the main story if you didn't listen to this. Great actors though, just shame all that talent was wasted on this

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