I know Traviss takes hits on her attitudes against Jedi. But aren't some of them true? Even though they claim not to be soldiers, etc, they took officer positions in the GAR and led slave troops into battle. If Jedi are made to look foolish/arrogant at all, it's RotS that does that.
I think she'd make her point better if she could construct more real Jedi characters-- all the Jedi in the
RepCom novels are either unlikeable bastards or totally buy into the Mando way of life (except for, perhaps, Argilan Zey). Strawmen. We never really got any more complex, middle-ground characters. I think it's telling that no pre-established Jedi characters ever turned up in her novels; I don't think she could've written someone like Mace Windu or Obi-Wan Kenobi accurately. (Kenobi had good relationships with
three clones-- Alpha, Rex, and Cody-- but you wouldn't know a Jedi was capable of that from reading her books.)
That said, I think
Triple Zero is an excellent novel.
Hard Contact was pretty good, and the last two
RepCom novels had excellence just under the surface, begging to get out. She's a master of writing nuanced characters... when she's not turning them into deities.
I was never a big Boba fan so anything she changed or moved around in terms of the history of the Mandalorians means nothing to me. From looking at the star wars wiki a little it seems she at least tried to pull some stuff together.
Despite all the complaints about her
Legacy of the Force novels, I think that
Bloodlines was actually the best one in the series. Sure, the focus on Boba is a little weird, but it's perfectly done. Which is more than you can say for the focus on Luke, Jacen, Han, or anyone else in the rest of the series.
If Lucas wanted him to survive, he would have added it to the Special Editions when they came out (flying out of the Sarlaac on his rocket pack or something)
