Del Rey Star Wars The Acolyte Wayseeker (Star Wars The High Republic).

by Justina Ireland

Del Rey Star Wars The Acolyte Wayseeker (Star Wars The High Republic) ABISBOOK Del Rey.

Genres: Star Wars

304 pages, Hardcover

Published May 6, 2025

About the author

Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, and a number of Star Wars books including Flight of the Falcon: Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and Mission to Disaster. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.

Reviews

[em sky-walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5. This book does help bridge the gap between the high republic books and the acolyte. But I still have so many questions. How did Vernestra come to follow the yoda school of covering shit up?! We were ROBBED when that show was canceled. And yet they will never make me hate my girl. 💚

It’s also hilarious how every time they mentioned a human character’s death from the previous books I’d be like 😱 even though it’s been more than the length of a human lifespan between the two. 😭😭😭

[kenyon dv · Rating 4 out of 5]

(4/5) Seeing Vernestra be totally done with everyone’s BS is so funny, I hope I become this cool and bitter(sweet) as I grow old

[Timothy Grubbs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mysteries and trouble in a galaxy far far away…

Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker by Justina Ireland is a decent story set years after the regular High Rpeublic canon and a few years before the tv show…

Focusing on the two main female Jedi from the Acolyte (the Mirialan nominally in charge of the Jedi throughout the show and the one played by Carrie Ann Moss), they are on differing missions albeit dressing paths at times.

Far removed from the nihil conflict and years before the issues with the witches and the Stranger, the story is during a relatively peaceful period in the High republic.

Lots of name drops throughout, some tying in with the older High Republic canon, but there are also some new name drops people places and drugs mentioned through. That’s the type of world building and callouts I like.

Also, the Jedi council during this period has at least four members that still serve by the time of episode I…

I was pleasantly surprised by how major a part YADDLE played in the story as a quest giver. She rarely pops up in the new canon (even rare in the old EU). It’s also cannon that she likes whiskey (Dalnan whiskey specifically).

Low stakes and eye opening and giving you some idea of the assorted troubles of the era…

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

This does a great job of making the THR books and The Acolyte really feel like they are the same world. The way the era when Vern was young is seen as a legendary time reminds me of how characters in the OT and ST look back at preceding eras. And of course, there is a bit of questioning of the ways of the Jedi Order.

[Louis Marano · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little slow in parts but I genuinely just love Vern. She’s such a cool Jedi and it was nice to see her when she is older. This was a good bridge from the high republic series to the acolyte tv series. If you like Star Wars adventures and read the high republic series it plays as a one off adventure but with good stakes.

[Brent Kirk · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's ok, kinda cheesy in Star wars way. but I like the characters