Announcing Star Wars: The Jaws of Jakku
A brand-new Audible Original out 9th October!
Ready for the next adventure of Rey, Finn and BB-8?
Then, Force be praised, have I've written the audiobook for you!
Star Wars: The Jaws of Jakku is the next Audible Original set in a galaxy far, far away.
Out Thursday, 9th October, the exclusive audiobook is set between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker and sees Rey struggling with her training under her new master, General Leia Organa.
Performed by Helen Sadler, and featuring a stunning cover by my pal Jake Bartok, it's one I'm especially proud of.
Check out the official blurb:
Following the events of The Last Jedi, Rey struggles to let go of her lonely childhood on the desert planet of Jakku. Hoping to have a breakthrough in her Jedi training, she returns to her home world with Finn and BB-8 in tow. When they meet a young girl on a dangerous mission to save her family, they travel through pitch-black tunnels beneath the sand where they encounter scurrying gnaw-jaws, a haunting terror from the past, and maybe—just maybe—hope for them all.
From a different point of view
The Jaws of Jakku is a little different from previous Star Wars Audible Originals as it's told in the first person by a young girl on Jakku, someone with first-hand experience of the desert planet's most famous resident.
And it's not just Rey who's returning to Jakku. I first braved the Goazon Badlands alongside comic artist Derek Charm when I launched Star Wars Adventures back in 2017 with the two-part "Better the Devil You Know". Then it was off to Anch-To for a lost story of Rey's training with Luke Skywalker in "Life Lessons" (Star Wars Adventures #26) before heading back to Jakku in Choose Your Destiny: A Scavenger Mission, the interactive gamebook released exclusively on Alexa in 2019.
Choose Your Destiny: A Finn & Poe Adventure saw me adding Finn to the roster of sequel characters I'd written for and I was pleased as punch reunite with all three of them in The Jaws of Jakku as well as issue three of Star Wars: Tales from the Nightlands, which hits comic stores November 19th!
Why Rey matters to me
Rey, Finn, BB-8 and the rest of the sequel gang will always be important to me as – along with the Rebels crew – they were the characters that introduced my kids to Star Wars. I will never forget our family trips to the cinema to see those movies, Rey's theme playing on repeat in the car or the rainy Sunday when the three of us built her speeder in LEGO. It was Rey the girls reached for on Disney Infinity, Rey they grabbed for action figure battles on the carpet, Rey who was plastered over the bedroom walls, and Rey who lit up their faces at Galaxy's Edge. Their love for the scrappy scavenger reminded me what Luke to meant to seven-year-old Cav, and that's why it means so much to revisit her now, on the eve of The Force Awakens' 10th Anniversary!
You can't add a dedication page to an audiobook, but Chloe and Connie, this one’s for you... and everyone who fell in love with Star Wars when they first met Rey.