The reason for this is because she’s no stranger to quality young adult sci-fi, as she’s written the best selling Across The Universe trilogy of books.
And it’s a good thing Revis is telling it, because her presence in the new Star Wars expanded universe is something that should be triumphed.
Whether Beth Revis crafted Star Wars: Rebel Rising from earlier drafts of the script, or was given free reign to fabricate the story whole cloth, it’s a story that needs to be told.
If you take Passengers, give it a personality, and make the big reveal an actual surprise, with both sides telling the story, you’ve got the first book down to a tee.