That was the single biggest “no fucking way” moment I’ve had since the reboot.

Anyway, I finished Phasma two or three weeks ago but never actually said so in this thread. On the whole, it gets a thumbs up. I don’t have a ton of patience with the whole proud warrior race trope in general, so that whole aspect gets a little grating by the end, but there’s more than enough good stuff to balance it out. I’ve said it before, but it’s far and away the weirdest novel in the new canon thus far, which I count as an huge positive. It’s got much more of a 1960s/early 1970s sci-fi influence than I’m used to in my SW books, and it’s a welcome variation.

I’d planned to pick up the Leia book soon, but with A Certain Point of View out tomorrow I may go for that one first.