The Best and Worst of Star Wars Novels

[Set Harth]

^I don't know. Threepio's song and dance routine rather put me off. It's a tendency I saw a lot in the early novels where authors would try (and fail) to insert humour for some odd reason and have established characters act very much out of character to suit the story.

Leia acts completely out of character in that book, and then to make matters worse, acts like she didn't and like we were all nuts for thinking that. And it contains possibly the worst line of dialogue from the Bantam EU. Still, a noteworthy book because it gave us Dathomir.

I forget which book it was in but I recall a scene with Leia and Mara that totally took me out of it just for the awkward stupidity. They're both out in the wilderness on some planet at night and one of them (Leia I think?) uses a lightsaber in lieu of a torch and Mara marvels at the innovations saying something like "I've never seen a lightsaber used like that before", to whit the other responds something like "you have to make do in extreme circumstances!" I may be misremembering, but I recall the whole thing was played totally straight and it just came off as silly.

I used to like Mara as a character once upon a time. What can I say? I was young and foolish. Perhaps worms were eating into my brain, as the song says.

 

[Wadjda]

The Han ones are weird in that there's no Imperial presence to speak of. (That's because they're in the "Corporate Sector" but still.)

You wanna see weird try the Lando trilogy. It was probably well written it just did not feel like SW.

 

[Set Harth]

Oh, I agree completely. It's sitting on my shelf somewhere...