Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

By: Beth Revis

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Marc Thompson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo.

The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolate. But on the forest moon of Endor, among the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.

After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he proposes to Leia, it’s the first time in a long time he’s had a good feeling about this. For Leia, a lifetime of fighting doesn’t seem truly over. There is work still to do, penance to pay for the dark secret that she now knows runs through her veins. Her brother, Luke, is offering her that chance—one that comes with family and the promise of the Force. But when Han asks her to marry him, Leia finds her answer immediately on her lips . . . Yes.

Yet happily ever after doesn’t come easily. As soon as Han and Leia depart their idyllic ceremony for their honeymoon, they find themselves on the grandest and most glamorous stage of all: the Halcyon, a luxury vessel on a very public journey to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy. Their marriage, and the peace and prosperity it represents, are a lightning rod for all—including Imperial remnants still clinging to power.

Facing their most desperate hour, the soldiers of the Empire have dispersed across the galaxy, retrenching on isolated planets vulnerable to their influence. As the Halcyon travels from world to world, one thing becomes abundantly clear: The war is not over. But as danger draws closer, Han and Leia find that they fight their best battles not alone, but as husband and wife.

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Great story and voice work.

Excellent narration by both audiobook narrators portraying Han and Leia really elevate this book. The story itself is a lot of fun with both characters getting moments to shine. Considering that this was a tie-in for the now defunct Galactic Starcruiser hotel the author Beth Revis did a great job weaving it into the story of Han and Leia’s honeymoon and why they would go on a cruise right after blowing up the second Death Star. I really enjoyed their wedding scene on Endor with all the Ewoks and Rebels as well as seeing how Leia dealt with learning that Vader was her father. There was also plenty of connective tissue with other Star Wars books and comics which I always appreciate.

Amazing performance

Their voice acting is perfect as Han and Leia and it adds a lot of emotional depth to the book, I absolutely loved!

Love and adventure

Wonderful story. It was performed excellent and really gave the image of everything happening. It was heartwarming to hear their life after ROTJ

Good old fashion Star Wars adventure

A fun romp with Han and Leia off enjoying their honeymoon only to get mixed up in exposing an imperial plot, and a returning imperial antagonist that I popped for that I didn’t know would ever come back after a brief appearance in a previous Han Solo book. Good read!

Good book

I don’t really read/listen to romance novels but this one of decent. Started off slow but it really pick up.

Finally a story that feels like star wars

I was reluctant to begin this book. My family and I recently returned from a trip on the Halcyon. We enjoyed it so much that I wanted to re live the experience but in the OT era. I was thrilled to read a novel that story is about the adventures in a world that we all love; not a memorandum on what character is now queer and more inclusive then they ever have been.

The story fills in some nice gaps after the second death stars destruction and the ongoing threat of the empire.

Once the story progresses through some of the romance, the story really picks up. It was hard to put it down after I was 1/3 into the book.

Highly recommended for OT Star Wars fans!!!

Great novel

I would recommend this book to any Star Wars fan! Great story to lead into next chapter of Star Wars!

A Great Adventure

Revis’s novel starts off with a slow burn, beautifully describing the nature of the moon of Endor and Leia and Han’s quirky and magical wedding, and turns into a riveting mystery and adventure.

I particularly liked how Revis gives us insight into 1) the trauma suffered by Leia at the hands of Darth Vader and her horror after learning he is her father and 2.) Han’s feelings about having a lost a year of his life and his visceral fear of cold afterbeing frozen in carbonite.

Revis also ties in some of Leah’s adventures from the War of the Bounty Hunters comic series. There is also a shameless connection to Disney’s Galactic Cruiser hotel, which is called the Halcyon.

I really loved the dual narrations of Marc Thompson (Han’s chapters) and Saskia Maarleveld (Leia’s chapters). Thompson has the ability to sound just like Harrison Ford, and both actors do a great job paralleling the same multiple characters within the chapters they narrate.

If you love Star Wars, as I do, you will enjoy this adventure with Han and Leia. I am grateful for this story that is just about them.

If you're thinking this is a romance novel...

YOU'RE WRONG!
This book is as fantastic as the movies, the details fantastic, and the characters exactly what you'd expect from both the Star Wars Universe AND Beth Revis! The characters we know remained perfectly in their own heads and the new ones were seamless in their integration! BEAUTIFUL WORK! It made it so easy to picture Carrie Fischer and Harrison Ford stepping into this place directly after the battle of Endor. And while their feelings for each other are very much there, it is no different than what was already evident in the movies.

The narrorators were perfect, too! It sounds like Marc Thompson has been doing Harrison Ford impressions his entire life and while Saskia Maarleveld doesn't have the same timber in her voice, she does sound like a slightly more mature Carrie Fischer than the one at the end of Return of the Jedi. In a word, the voice casting was BRILLIANT! Rock on, you two!

Who you calling Scruffy!?

A well written continuation of the characters taken in an unexpected journey that furthers their ties and commitments