Changes

Without giving any spoilers away, the end of ''The Force Awakens'' sees a character and their peace interrupted. While said person probably has The Force to give them some restful ease, you never know what else they used. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect on the mind – that of calming it, and providing a meditative, simple yet creative task for it. Whether that is the case or not, there are books set in the ''Star Wars'' universe for people to join in in that way – and this is the best I've seen.

We start with a tiny, easing essay, relieving a point I belaboured [[Star Wars Rogue One: Art of Colouring by Lucasfilm|the last time I met with one of these books]], about how accurate you're supposed to remain to the film, and how much leeway you should give yourself to just go create. Maximum leeway is offered here, so it's pencils out and let's stop playing mini-lightsabres with them and get drawing. On the whole, every right -hand page is a character or scene from the film, right down to the most minor of personnel I've long since forgotten ever featured. The reverse of those is generally a mandala set, although sometimes this becomes a double-page spread of a pattern.

On those occasions , you get the usual impossible-to-get-down-the-centrefold problem, but I think on the whole this is a sensibly constructed volume. Yes , you have to crack the spine to get anywhere, especially with the mandala sets going right into to the centre of the spread, but the scenes and characters are generally in a large field of blank you can leave white, and there's no issue here. Some of the mandalas are fun in the way they play around with spherical metallic shapes, and Millennium Falcons – I did laugh at the almost heraldic rose patterns made out of Stormtrooper helmets. The portraits are generally embellished with ribbons, banners and wafty bits of filigree, so however much veracity you seek you can always try and have some harmonious colour matching.