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Title: Star Wars Rebels: Servants of the Empire - Jason Fry

Media: Four-book series

Approx length: Each book is under 200 pages.

Where to find it: All four books are available in ebook as part of Kindle Unlimited. (You can also buy them individually in paper or ebook, of course, but Kindle Unlimited is your cheapest option.)

What is it, in summary?: Servants of the Empire follows Zare Leonis, a young man growing up in a galactic backwater, as he begins to question the Empire he and his family have always served after his sister vanishes under mysterious circumstances. It covers three years of his life as he goes undercover at the Imperial Academy to try to find her, with help from his girlfriend, Merei, a slicer who's gathering information while playing cat and mouse with Imperial IT security experts (who happen to be her beloved parents).

It's about how ordinary people can justify terrible things, about what the slow creep of fascism looks like and why people do and don't choose to resist, about the psychological cost of long-term undercover work.

What do you love about it?: My favorite book is probably the third book, which really digs into Zare's interior struggle between his instinctive desires to be a good teammate to his fellow cadets and receive praise from the adult authority figures around him--balanced against his knowledge that all of them would sell him out in a second if they knew his real goals, and that the adult authority figures are (mostly) not good people. I also love Merei's plotline, which involves falling deeper into the underworld in her quest for intelligence that can help Zare and ending up over her head and doubting the morality of her own actions. It's a series deeply interested in questions about the ends justifying the means.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Post-canon fic looking at Merei's relationship with her mother and Zare's relationship with his sister in the aftermath of everything that goes down in the fourth book, probably!

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: No, you pretty much need to read all four books. (You do not need to watch Rebels, which this is a spin-off of. People who've seen Rebels may recognize Zare's name as a bit character from two early episodes; the novels cover both those appearances thoroughly from Zare's perspective. Everything you need to understand Zare's story is here.)

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Contains: fascism, speciesism against non-human aliens. This is a middle-grade series and remains appropriate for that age range throughout. Terrible things happen but not in graphic ways. There is no sexual violence.

Edited 2024-09-16 22:52 (UTC)