I initially wrote my updates thinking I'd briefly review all stories but 40 is kind of a lot, and a lot of the Imperials/stormtrooper/rebel pilot stories blend together for me, sorry!! I also haven't read the previous FaCPoV collections, foolishly assuming it was one book and picking up this one in the library's new book section which should've been a clue.

Like a box of chocolates, this also was useful as a reminder of authors I really need to get around to reading, like Thea Guanzon's "Dune Sea Songs of Salt and Moonlight" (I've seen Thea's name re: the Cait Corrain downvoting scandal, so she's on my list but so many books to read...) and Charlie Jane Anders' "My Mouth Never Closes" was a funny, short interstitial (and a reminder that I should read CJA). I was starting to feel "hm, do we need a story from EVERY point of view?" only for "The Chronicler" to shut me up about the importance of everyone's story (even namechecking Jess from Thea's short story). "Return of the Whills" made me cackle.

Overall for the collection a 3.5 rounded to 4, enjoyed some stories more than others. I was making jokes about Glup Shitto in some of my updates, but these anthologies are sort of like this, a story for every minute background character, including the vaguely papal-looking fellows in robes that accompany the Emperor. Can't complain too much because I was pleased to see a Dexter Jettster story towards the end, about the immediate aftermath in Coruscant after the fall of the Empire.

I'll get around to the other FaCPoV collections, eventually. Not in any rush, though.