A Recipe for Death

I thought this was really fun! It's a short story so it doesn't overstay it's welcome. It has a single goal (to tell a murder mystery, whodunit... but in a space kitchen), it commits to it, and it pulls it off. There are no connections to the larger Star Wars universe, except some name dropping and obviously the fact that it exists in the same setting, and it's better for it!

Honestly, the main plot idea is... great. I LOVE the thought of a cooking competition being done to weed out a murderer who stole a recipe book from the murder victim. It's so interesting and creative! Rian Johnson, take notes for the next Knives Out movie, please.

This was the first read on my Star Wars Canon Adventure, being as the lovely people over at Wookiepedia decided that certain lines in this made it set 100 years before The Phantom Menace, apparently. It's not an entirely bad way to start the journey. Quite a refreshing one, actually.