Star Wars Project Luminous YA Novel

I enjoyed meeting new characters in the Star Wars universe. Especially characters who don't fall neatly in the black and white light and dark side of the force. Seeing characters wrestle with what they believe and what they've been taught feels more true to life. 

Now for the one thing that I didn't love: the character Geode. This character's species is a rock-type life form. I accepted them as part of Gray's story, but this is a character that feels unknowable and ultimately, unidentifiable. I can neither live nor hate this character, which leaves me in a place if not caring at all, which I wish was different. 

Unfortunately I'm gonna have to agree with what a lot of people are saying about this book. This is very mediocre and at times incredibly boring.

Claudia Gray is by far my favorite Star Wars author for the new novels, with Lost Stars and Bloodline being my absolute favorites. She excels at character work and deepening existing characters.

Unfortunately with Into The Dark, I think it might have wanted to do too much. We have 4 to 5 different POV's, many different characters to keep track of, and also a bunch of semi-related flashbacks. It spread itself too thin.

Reath Silas, our main character, is a type of Jedi we haven't had all too often, but he doesn't get as much time as he should have gotten in this book. The other Jedi are the ones who are flashing back, and we also spent a lot of time on the pilots of The Vessel which I frankly didn't care too much about.
The Nihil also remain an enemy that I just do not care for at all.

The theme and ideas of the book are really cool. It's about attachment and mourning and what that means for a Jedi. That's super interesting! I just wish everything else would have been interesting as well.