Inferno Squad

I love team stories, and I especially love stories about morally ambigious people, as from our point of view, they're straight up evil, but they believe they're the good guys.

Inferno Squad is a team that was assembled after the destruction of the first Death Star (and may be an answer to the Rebels' Twilight Company in a way). The book is also a prequel to the Battlefront II single player campaign, which also features a few of this book's characters, mainly Iden Versio. I didn't closely look at the character list of the game, so I wasn't sure whether all the characters would surive in the end or not, which kept things exciting on that front.

I loved the rest of it too. I wasn't too sure about Iden at first as a character, but I was totally into it by the end. The rest of the team grew on me much easier.

Story wise, most of the time in the book is spent as an undercover mission with a Rebel team that have connections to Saw Gerrera's partisans. In there, there are a few connections to the Clone Wars series and the Rebel Rising book about Jyn's youth. Especially the latter might be good reading before getting to this, because there's a few character crossovers and for simply getting a bit of context when it comes to the state of the Rebels at that point.

Even if I'd just be judging it on whether it made me more excited for Battlefront II or not... Hell yeah!