‘The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown’ Releases with a 3 Chapter Preview
The latest Star Wars young adult novel brings us a prequel featuring Padawans Jecki and Yord, and readers can check out the first three chapters for free.
Jul 29, 2025
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What we know:
The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown by Tessa Gratton is out today from Random House Worlds
The Young Adult novel features Jecki and Yord from The Acolyte as Padawans who get caught up in “a planet-wide coming-of-age ritual”
Tessa Gratton has written multiple novels in The High Republic era including Temptation of the Force as well as Defy the Storm with frequent collaborator Justina Ireland
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The preview:
Kobo has made the first three chapters of The Crystal Crown available online for free
The preview features an introduction to Jecki as she completes a training session and introduces Yord as one of her “least favorite people”
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Eric Eilersen is a Senior Writer at Youtini and co-host of The Youtini Show. He loves collecting Star Wars Funkos, lightsabers, and LEGO as well as playing video games, reading Brandon Sanderson novels, watching the Dallas Cowboys, and spending time with his wife and pets. You can follow him at @EricEilersen.
