Queen's Shadow by E.K. JohnstonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
E.K. Johnston wrote another Star War - not to sound too much like Justina Ireland or Rebecca Roanhorse in their excited reveals that they themselves had written some official literature for the franchise - and it's an unexpected but most welcome look at some of the leading ladies of The Phantom Menace. Not only Padmé, but all her handmaidens - especially Sabé, who gets a pretty important mission to help free slaves on Tatooine. As for the great Padmé, though, we get to finally see her early days in the Senate, almost immediately after the end of her time as Queen of Naboo, no less. This is such an essential story that it really makes you feel how little has been told between the first two episodes of the Skywalker Saga, and being E.K. Johnston it's a true feminist masterpiece on top of that. Quietly subversive, and uniquely powerful.
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