F/SF

I'm a little embarrassed that it took me four days to read this. Ooops.

I don't know what to say about it? It's like the first book. Better than the Lando Calrissian Adventures, but not the greatest book ever written. The plot trudges on at a reasonable pace, never dragging and never skipping ahead.

Mostly I like how the plot has been structured so that Han is doing "good" while not necessarily making his character development in the movies obsolete. We can't have a Han doing good just for the sake of it, but in the first book he joins forces with the good guys to save Chewie - which I 100% believe he would. In this one he's against slavery, and yeah, you don't have to be a good guy to be that either. He still has a long way to go, which is how it must be. ( )

I had assumed that all the star wars novels are empty dreck. I was surprised how good a writer Daley is.

Readers of Jack Vance are in for a surprise. ( )

Fun romp with the 'rogue with a golden heart' without rebel entanglements. Not deep, but good for a rain day. ( )

Daley does as good a job on these as anyone. I just don't care for them much. ( )