Journey To Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Delilah S Dawson) Books in Order

The "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" label covered a range of tie-ins, but Delilah S. Dawson's main contribution is Phasma, and it is one of the darker entries in that whole publishing wave. Rather than simply bridging movie plot points, it takes a character who is mostly armor and threat on screen and asks what kind of person ends up inside that chrome shell.

The answer is not comforting.

Phasma works as both an origin story and a power struggle. The book frames Captain Phasma's past through an interrogation, with the stormtrooper Cardinal trying to dig up something shameful enough to use against her. That means the story is partly about the harsh world that shaped her and partly about the ruthless politics inside the First Order itself.

What makes the book stand out is that it does not sand down Phasma into a misunderstood softie. Dawson is interested in survival, ambition, and the way brutal systems reward people who are willing to become brutal too. The result feels more like a hard survival tale and a First Order rivalry story than a standard heroic Star Wars adventure.

That tone makes this page useful for readers who want more than checklist chronology. Phasma is tied to The Last Jedi era, yes, but its real value is character depth. It adds pressure, history, and menace to someone the films present mostly as an image. It also gives more space to Cardinal, another First Order figure whose obsession helps drive the book's tension.

If you like Star Wars stories that lean toward the villain side of the map, this is the draw. Read it for sequel-era context, but stay for the survivalist backstory, the ugly ambition, and the cold sense that in the First Order, weakness is the one sin nobody survives.