History Literature / LeiaPrincessOfAlderaan

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** The jubilation dress that Leia borrows from Dalné is the same kind of dress that her mother wore at the celebration at the end of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', which likely helped Moff Panaka see the family resemblance.

** Bail and Breha are careful about keeping Leia's true parentage under wraps. In regards to being the daughter of Padmé, it gives her some brownie points as we see later in ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]'' [[spoiler:and possibly won over Panaka's loyalty just before he was killed.]]

* DeathBySecretIdentity: [[spoiler:Moff Panaka, upon meeting Leia, deduces that she's Padmé Amidala's daughter. He is assassinated by the Partisans just after Leia and Queen Dalné leave, preventing him from revealing this. This is an unusual example in that the person with the secret identity is unaware of the fact.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Moff Panaka is killed before we can find out if the Rebellion could have recruited him.]]

* ContinuityLockout: Not quite, but there are a number of connections to ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]'' due to being written by the same author about Leia in different points of her life, with ''Princess of Alderaan'' explaining how a younger Leia became an important rebel leader and ''Bloodline'' explaining why an older Leia started the Resistance.

* BizarreAlienSexes: Chalhuddans have five genders and change them according to an elaborate set of customs and individual preference, with [=3PO=] saying their native pronouns involve two or three past genders and possibly their future gender as well as the gender they currently are. For the sake of convenience with "drylanders", they all go by the gender-neutral "they".

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Before her ninth Name Day, Leia tried to eavesdrop on Bail and Breha in belief that they'd be talking about what presents they got for her, but then they started getting flirty, causing her to ScrewThisImOuttaHere before ParentalSexualitySquick could get anymore squickier.
** Leia and Amilyn accidentally interrupt (and, in Leia's opinion, probably only ''delayed'') a couple of Quarrens about to have sex.
** Kier and Leia may or may not [[TheirFirstTime have had sex]] that night in the Coruscant gardens.

** From ''[[Literature/StarWarsLostStars Lost Stars]]'', the ''Moa'' and one of its crew members, Methwat Tann (though unnamed), make a brief appearance, nearly hired by Chasselon Stevis before Leia arrives in need of transportation to Pamarthe.

* MythologyGag: There is a place on Eriadu, Tarkin's homeworld, named Rivoche Ranges. Rivoche was Tarkin's niece from ''Legends''.

* PlayingBothSides: Leia and Amilyn discover by chance, during one of their pathfinding classes, that Chandrilan Senator Winmey Lenz, a member of Bail and Mon's group of rebel Senators, is also selling quadanium steel to the Empire. After informing Mon Mothma, the rebel Senators plan to phase Lenz out of their group by making him think there's been a disagreement between several factions.

** Bail and Breha are careful about keeping Leia's true parentage under wraps. In regards to be the daughter of Padmé, it gives her some brownie points as we see later in ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]'' [[spoiler:and possibly won over Panaka's loyalty just before he was killed.]]

** The story begins on Leia's sixteenth birthday and chronicles how she joined the Rebellion now, meaning it takes place before [[Recap/StarWarsForcesOfDestinyS1E8BountyOfTrouble "Bounty of Trouble"]] and [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels "A Princess on Lothal"]].

* ShoutOut: One of the senators allied with the Rebellion is Senator [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Cinderon Malpe of Della]]. Whatever this holds for him is unclear.

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''Leia: Princess of Alderaan'' is a young adult novel in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], written by Creator/ClaudiaGray, who had previously written ''Literature/LostStars'' and ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]''. It was released as a part of the multimedia promotional project, ''Journey to Star Wars: Film/TheLastJedi''.

** Onoam is a moon of Naboo where spice miners work in poor conditions, as mentioned back in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', when Mace theorized that the assassination attempt on Padme's life could've been by disgruntled spice miners from there. And as ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' mentions, it's not fun to mine for spice for a [[NoOSHACompliance number of reasons]].

** Promotional material for ''The Last Jedi'' mentioned that Admiral Amilyn Holdo is an old friend of Leia's. Sure enough, Amilyn appears as a major character and they befriend each other in this book.

* TheCameo:
** Senator Gall Trayvis from ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' appears at Leia's Day of Demand.
** From ''[[Literature/StarWarsLostStars Lost Stars]]'', the ''Moa'' and one of its crew members, Methwat Tann (though unnamed), make a brief appearance and are said to be hired by another character.
* ContinuityLockout: Not quite, but there are a number of connections to ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]'' due to being written by the same author about Leia in different points of her life, with ''Princess of Alderaan'' explaining how a younger Leia became an important rebel leader with ''Bloodline'' explaining why an older Leia started the Resistance.

** The story begins on Leia's sixteenth birthday and chronicles how she joined the Rebellion now, meaning it takes place before [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny "A Bounty of Trouble"]] and [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels "A Princess on Lothal"]].

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Could be the book's subtitle. Leia's mother (who appeared for two seconds at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith''), her father (who's had only slightly more of a presence in the films), and Alderaan are given much more depth and characterization. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Of course, we all know how this ends.]]

* DramaticIrony: The book closes with Leia being comforted with the idea that [[DoomedHometown her home, her people, and her family can never be taken away from her]].
* EveryoneKnewAlready: It's an open secret that Leia was adopted. [[spoiler:Panaka takes interest when he sees her uncanny resemblance to Padme.]]
* FatalFlaw: Panaka has always listened to his superiors, from Padme to the Empeeror, even when he disagrees with them. [[spoiler:It puts him in an extremely vulnerable position when the Emperor rewards him with a governorship, and makes him a target for assassins.]]

** Leia and Amilyn accidentally interrupts (and, in Leia's opinion, probably only ''delayed'') a couple of Quarrens about to have sex.

* TheGhost: Saw and his Partisans are mentioned as causing the usual trouble. [[spoiler:They end up affecting the plot of the book by having planted a bomb to assassinate Moff Panaka.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Moff Panaka is killed before we can find out if the Rebellion could have recruited him.]]
* HopeSpot:
** For Panaka, after meeting Leia, [[spoiler:he realizes that Padme's baby is alive. He had known about the secret marriage between Anakin and Padme, and had told Palpatine about it. We can assume that he mourned Padme, who was once his queen, when she passed, but it seems that a part of Amidala survived. Then before he can tell anyone, either the Emperor or the rebels, he gets killed and the secret dies with him]].

* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Leia reassures Kier as he dies that she'll turn in the rebellion to save Alderaan, having absolutely no intentions to do that and destroying the evidence he gathered once he died.]]

* MythologyGag: There is a place on Eriadu, Tarkin's homeworld, named Rivoche Ranges. Rivoche was Tarkin's niece from ''Legends''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: On her mercy mission to Wobani, Leia tries to evacuate some of the refugees but the governor refuses to. She hires a hundred people on as crew, getting around the restriction. She gets home and learns that her mother and others in the Senate have been negotiating the evacuation of the refugees for months, and Leia's actions destroyed the negotiations.
* OhCrap:
** Leia when Tarkin namedrops Paucris as being a world at unrest [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow to get a reaction out of her]].

* ProtagonistTitle: ''Leia: Princess of Alderaan'', not to be mistaken for the ''ComicBook/PrincessLeia'' comics that take place after ''A New Hope''.

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:[[TheReveal Panaka learns Leia is Padme's daughter]], but he is killed in an assassination by the Partisans before anyone can do anything about it. It is unknown if Panaka would have told Palpatine about this, and even if he didn't, it's unknown if he would've taken up the Rebellion's offer to serve as a spy for them, especially since the Alliance High Council is made up of his former queen's friends.]]

** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Senator Gall Trayvis]] makes a [[TheCameo cameo]] as one of the senators attending Leia's Day of Demand. We also learn that he represents the world of Osk-Trill.
** The story begins on Leia's sixteenth birthday and chronicles how she joined the Rebellion now, meaning it takes place before [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsForcesOfDestiny "A Bounty of Trouble"]] and [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels "A Princess On Lothal"]].

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Could be the book's subtitle. Leia's mother (who appeared for two seconds at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith''), her father (who's had only slightly more of a presence in the films), and Alderman are given much more depth and characterization. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Of course, we all know how this ends.]]

It was released on September 1[[superscript:st]], 2017, along with ''[[Literature/StarWarsPhasma Phasma]]'', as a part of the second synchronized release of ''Star Wars'' merchandise known as Force Friday.

''Leia: Princess of Alderaan'' is a young adult novel in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], written by Claudia Gray, who had previously written ''Literature/LostStars'' and ''[[Literature/StarWarsBloodline Bloodline]]''. It was released as a part of the multimedia promotional project, ''Journey to Star Wars: Film/TheLastJedi''.

''Leia: Princess of Alderaan'' is a young adult novel in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], written by Claudia Gray, who had previously written ''Literature/LostStars'' and ''Literature/{{Bloodline}}''. It was released as a part of the multimedia promotional project, ''Journey to Star Wars: Film/TheLastJedi''.

* DebtDetester: The Chalhuddans refuse to take vaccines from Leia unless she admits that they'll owe her a favor in future. That favor turns out to be aiding the Rebellion.