My favorite characters all with detailed profiles in one beautifully illustrated volume! I love this beyond words!!! Bossk, Aurra Sing, Cad Bane, Boba Fett, all the best of the scum and villainy are here in full glorious color written from a clever point of view and this is a MUST own for any Star Wars fan of any age! It’s by far one of my most favorite books in my collection.

A book filled with absolutely wonderful artwork and in an interesting format told by various members of law enforcement which I think was a fun touch. The content is brilliant but I think this is more of an art book with small bits of information instead of a comprehensive fact file which was closer to what I was expecting. We get a lot of information about high profile members of the Star Wars universe such as Han Solo and Leia Organa but feel we could have done with less information about them as they are already very well known and perhaps had more of information about some of the Clone Wars characters. This book is still a fun and enjoyable read and for sure something to add to a Star Wars collectors library.

Star Wars fans here is a book you will enjoy. The information is interesting and the illustrations are well done. You'll find more details about the Scum and Villainy in the Star Wars world. It is well designed and easy to understand. If you enjoy Star Wars or want to learn more about Star Wars this book is one for you.

Ok so I’m not a Star Wars fan, but my hubby and son both are and they both loved the book..they said the pictures are amazing and they both really enjoyed the book. So thanks for the ARC.

A must for Star Wars fans. This is a fun book encompassing the case files of three generations of galactic law enforcers, including warrants, surveillance images, lists of stolen artifacts, etc. Nice artwork, and lots of nerdy trivia!

Wow, this is a fascinating look at the criminal underbelly of the Star Wars universe. I really enjoyed this peek into the Star Wars universe. A fun read.

Many thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

A great book for any star wars or science fiction fan, brief outlines of many characters from the expanded universe make it a very interesting read

Thanks to the publishers for sharing this one. The illustrations are gorgeous. My full review appears on Weekend Notes.

Scum and Villainy: Case Files of the Galaxy’s Most Notorious is sort of exactly what you’d expect, and thus hope for, from a novel of this title. The book contains images, excerpts, document files, and other things like that pertaining to the…less scrupulous sorts in the Star Wars Universe.
Now obviously a description of ‘less scrupulous’ could apply to dozens, if not hundreds, of characters here. This novel chose to focus on some of the most famous and infamous ones, naturally. Some are pretty well known, others more obscure. The balance was perfect, in that it was interesting (and not repetitive) the whole way through.
Did I mention that the book is fully illustrated? That certainly brought things to a whole new level here. The artwork was fantastic. I loved the color choices, and honestly, it was really helpful to be able to put a face to some of the names I didn’t recognize.
I really enjoyed the use of different media styles to try and convey all the information here. It wasn’t dry, which it had the potential of being (say if it was all wanted posters – that would get dull after a few dozen pages). The variety kept things fresh. And even better – I got to learn more about a bunch of characters at the same time.

What a lovely book! Between the design/layout and the story, I am sure that it will be something that I would recommend to students and friends.

This book is full of great artwork and information on various bad guys in the galaxy far, far away. It reads sort of like a cross between a recruitment pamphlet and a crime dossier. It's split up into three different parts, and within these parts you have everything from warrants for the arrest of everyone's favorite scoundrel and rebel princess, Han Solo and Princess Leia, to surveillance footage and mugshots from notable bounty hunters like Boba Fett to the slightly lesser known IG-88. This is such a cool perspective on the Star Wars universe. Usually, everything is about the good guys and this shines a spotlight on the bad guys who're the underbelly of the Galaxy. While this book doesn't necessarily bring anything new to the table, it is a really fun read for any Star Wars fan.

The records of three generations of cops show off some of the most colorful villains in the Star Wars universe, though at times it feels like the bounty hunters outnumber the actual criminals.
The large drawings of stakeouts and police reports take up most of the area, with some commentary attached. Sometimes you have to look carefully at the details to know what’s going on.
I found the propaganda posters hilarious, though I doubt that’s the intent. The page on tattoos was interesting, as was the podracing, but the padawan auction was chilling.
It’s interesting to see the middle of the three generations become more of an Imperial lackey than actually care about real justice.
I wonder what came first: the art or the words? There’s a few pages that show crime “evidence,” particularly smuggling, that aren’t exactly great subjects for artistic endeavors. Sometimes it’s just boxes. . . nicely drawn boxes, to be sure, but hardly the kind of thing an artist would showcase in their portfolio. I guess it’s there to add to whatever else is in the page, but this leads me to believe the author—who might also be the artist, for all I know—came up with the idea and the description before the artwork, and couldn’t think of something more intriguing to draw.
Despite not being as enmeshed in all the Star Wars stuff outside of the movies as a lot of the fans, I found this intriguing, even if I didn’t know most of the characters. I finally understand what makes the Kessel Run such a big deal, for example, as well as spice smuggling. But it’s really the variety of crimes, some of which could only happen in a universe like this, that makes this book so interesting. I’m sure I would not have enjoyed it as much had it come without illustrations.

This is such a beautiful book. It could have quite easily used images from the film’s, but there’s a stunning animated quality to the drawings presented alongside the canonical information. Perfect for fans, young and old.

I love Star Wars, so this was a fun book to read. It was full of little bits and pieces of the world and it was nice to get lost in it for a little while.

This was an amazing read. after a few pages 'I knew I needed to own it! Amazing profiles of some of the darkest elements of the Star Wars universe

Star Wars: Scum and Villainy is definitely on my brain candy/nerd heaven reading list. It's an attractive combination of words and images from this popular franchise, and serves as a helpful companion to the films and other books. Glad I got to read it!

More of a 3.5 out of 5 stars, really. The book has wonderful illustrations, case files on various characters within the Star Wars universe, and insight into this world that you may not have been privy to before. Presented as a mini "gallery" with a slant toward being a recruitment tool, it sidesteps a more direct approach to the subject matter and creatively introduces (or re-introduces) characters via surveillance stills, mugshots, etc.

You'll recognize characters in this book from films as recent as Solo: A Star Wars Story, so you're pretty up-to-date. Might be good reading leading up to The Mandalorian, too.

There's nothing profoundly incredible to be discovered, but anyone hoping for any supplementary material from the Star Wars universe will probably find this worthy. You could buy this for a young kid that's into SW and they'll more than likely dig it. It's neat that there's reference material out there to help to continue to develop the new expansion of the SW "galaxy".

Many thanks to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group, and Epic Ink for the advance read.

This was really fun to read. There was so much detail. I loved the pictures. They were amazingly done.

This is a very in depth detailed look at part of the society established within the Star Wars films. As a non fan, I quickly lost interest, but the paintings are stunning,really well drawn and detailed.

This in-universe non-fiction piece is a heavily illustrated series of captions to the Star Wars mythology, as seen from the points of view of three law enforcers. It's not great, however – it's heavily balanced in favour of the Clone Wars, and you'd need to have encyclopaedic knowledge of it all to get all the Easter egg-styled references. It only briefly links the characters herein to the classic films, but it does at least make official why the Kessel Run is 'timed' in distance. For completists only.