There are good things and bad things about the CN books. There is a fair amount of tedium as the protagonists sit around their hideout ( kind of like the Taris apartments in KOTOR ) and plot their next move. This dynamic becomes somewhat more interesting in the third book because there's a mystery involved which allows the characters to play off against one another. There are some decent battle scenes, including an epic Force combat in the third book, and the series portrays Vader as quite powerful, even more powerful than Anakin.