These characters have to make choices about how they will let the bad things shape them, and their choices felt very believable. I deeply empathized with one character’s lament that, “Bad things happen to good people and it’s not fair.” In 2020, adults and children dealt with circumstances beyond their control, and this book felt timely in that respect. This book starts out with a tragedy, and most of the rest of the book is the emotional fallout of that tragedy, while also dealing with a life-or-death survival situation. I remember being that age and having similar problems like, “My parents don’t understand me,” “I’m not sure where I fit in,” and “Other kids are better at things than I am”. The main characters are 12-16, and they felt authentically that age to me. The main difference I felt was that the print is larger than an adult book, so I zipped through it pretty quickly. This is a junior (middle grade) novel, but it is not simplified in a way that made it boring for an adult to read. WARNING: ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR A TEST OF COURAGE Literary Quality A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland exceeded my expectations and has definitely whet my appetite for more content from this era. I must confess, I wasn’t particularly interested in this idea (I’m a flygirl myself–give me the cockpit of an x-wing and some pew-pews and I’m happy) but I went in with an open mind. Some fans were psyched, while others were skeptical that this Jedi-heavy project could capture their attention. This massive cross-media undertaking, set hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga, aimed to create an entirely new time period in the Star Wars universe, where the Jedi are on top and peace rules the galaxy. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year (and hey, no judgement) you know about The High Republic–the project previously codenamed “Project Luminous” which claimed it would go somewhere previously uncharted by the cultural behemoth that is Star Wars.
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