We are big Star Wars fans in our family. I enjoyed the films in my youth (they premiered on my seventh birthday) and my kids are, if anything, even bigger fans. So when the classic trilogy were reimagined as young adult novels I was sorely tempted to read them. I even checked them out of the library a few times but never quite got around to read them.
But looking for something to listen to on a family car trip I picked up A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy by Alexandra Bracken from Overdrive as an audiobook. We ended up listening to it in the car on that trip and finished it driving around on various other trips. My 9yo son in particular loved it and asked to listen to it whenever he could.
I thought it was well done, if with the obvious draw back of already knowing what happens. The audiobook does a nice job of giving the characters a voice and offering an interesting take on their backgrounds, personalities and what they might have been thinking as this famous story unfolds. Sound effects add to the fun.
Solid entertainment for longer car trips for the young Star Wars fans.
