Have read all the non 'young adult' Disnyverse books and they are pretty poor over all, not unreadable or atrocious just not very good wither.

Lost Stars was the only one worth while since it gave a look into the lives and views of regular Imperial citizens and members of the armed forces.

The Force Awakens book was terrible, I was shocked that it was from a veteran SW writer like Alan Dean Foster, but still maybe read it since it at least explains parts of the film that did not make sense (eg. able to mind trick out of nowhere) or where it was obvious scenes had been cut (Leia's story line). Also some interesting comments on Rey from Jacen.. I mean Ben.

I'll take issue with this. I agree that the one with Luke was really really bad. Aftermath was OK and not as horrible as some people suggest. I really liked Tarkin and A New Dawn. I thought those were excellent and better than most EU stuff I have read.

The Thrawn series was pretty good, but after that, the rest of it is at best OK. There are a lot of people that act like the EU books were amazing. They weren't.

Ah but that's highly subjective. I loved Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi, and they in fact rate higher then some of the movies imho. That's not a widely shared opinion on these forums. But to me, the major EU series were all better then TFA. To me, those EU books ARE amazing. Again, that's by no means a majority opinion (especially on these forums), but it just goes to show that what is good is subjective.

I can't particularly comment on any the new canon books because I don't feel like investing time in reading them (especially when I've only heard of 2 or 3 good ones). All I can really say is my Star Wars Universe is the one with Rogues and Wraiths, Yuuzhon-Vong, Darth Caedus, and Abeloth.

LOTF was bad. Period. It wasn't that the individual novels were bad. They weren't. The individual books are pretty well written.

The issue with LOTF was the blatant uncoordination in the series. And clearly two of the authors were in conflict with how the story should go, while the third tried to stay out of their way. I feel bad for Alliston. That was such an impossible situation. NJO wasn't super coordinated, but it was split up a bit better for different authors.

Ah but that's highly subjective. I loved Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi, and they in fact rate higher then some of the movies imho. That's not a widely shared opinion on these forums. But to me, the major EU series were all better then TFA. To me, those EU books ARE amazing. Again, that's by no means a majority opinion (especially on these forums), but it just goes to show that what is good is subjective.

I can't particularly comment on any the new canon books because I don't feel like investing time in reading them (especially when I've only heard of 2 or 3 good ones). All I can really say is my Star Wars Universe is the one with Rogues and Wraiths, Yuuzhon-Vong, Darth Caedus, and Abeloth.

I will agree....you are in the minority.

LOTF was bad. Period. It wasn't that the individual novels were bad. They weren't. The individual books are pretty well written.

The issue with LOTF was the blatant uncoordination in the series. And clearly two of the authors were in conflict with how the story should go, while the third tried to stay out of their way. I feel bad for Alliston. That was such an impossible situation. NJO wasn't super coordinated, but it was split up a bit better for different authors.

I feel the actual plot and writing saved LotF from a terrible death. NJO is kind of meh. I like the overall plot, but it's a huge mess. Really it's just 3-4 books in the series that stood as really well written. FotJ suffered from a super strange plot, but all the writers were on the same page, and all the writers did very well, pulling it into a very good series in its own right.

I will agree....you are in the minority.

I won't disagree or even try to argue my point. Just saying that I love quite a few of the EU books and like the EU sequels way better then whatever disney is doing TFA. I "hail" a lot of books in the EU as amazing because from my point of view, they are.

I will agree....you are in the minority.

I won't disagree or even try to argue my point. Just saying that I love quite a few of the EU books and like the EU sequels way better then whatever disney is doing TFA. I "hail" a lot of books in the EU as amazing because from my point of view, they are.

True, but have you read anything besides TFA? There are some good books that have come out under Disney, too. I liked A New Dawn and Tarkin quite a bit. I'm in the middle of Lost Stars with my son and enjoying it pretty well.

LOTF was bad. Period. It wasn't that the individual novels were bad. They weren't. The individual books are pretty well written.

The issue with LOTF was the blatant uncoordination in the series. And clearly two of the authors were in conflict with how the story should go, while the third tried to stay out of their way. I feel bad for Alliston. That was such an impossible situation. NJO wasn't super coordinated, but it was split up a bit better for different authors.

I feel the actual plot and writing saved LotF from a terrible death. NJO is kind of meh. I like the overall plot, but it's a huge mess. Really it's just 3-4 books in the series that stood as really well written. FotJ suffered from a super strange plot, but all the writers were on the same page, and all the writers did very well, pulling it into a very good series in its own right.

I will agree....you are in the minority.

I won't disagree or even try to argue my point. Just saying that I love quite a few of the EU books and like the EU sequels way better then whatever disney is doing TFA. I "hail" a lot of books in the EU as amazing because from my point of view, they are.

I don't see how you can say LOTF wasn't a mess when you had 2/3 of the authors being very, very contradictory to each other.

Can you point out some the these extreme contradictions? Everyone keeps talking about them, but I don't remember any.

You couldn't notice the two very, very different approaches Traviss and Denning approached Cadeus? Denning makes him do something Sithy, Traviss tries to play it off and make him heroic, man of the military?

uhh? Source? I don't recall him being very heroic or nice in Traviss' books. Less full blown evil then Denning was doing, but still evil.

uhh? Source? I don't recall him being very heroic or nice in Traviss' books. Less full blown evil then Denning was doing, but still evil.

Inferno had a round-robin interview in the back.

Relevant bits:

TD: Jacen was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong and brainwashed by Vergere, so he's been through a lot that wasn't his parents' doing. Ultimately, though, the only person responsible for what Jacen has become is Jacen himself.

KT: Right. I agree that his experiences of the Vong with Vergere did freak him, and distorted his perspective on his own fallibility. But Jacen is actually just a very smart guy with an excessively high opinion of himself. Like so many of those in power, especially the most able, he edges toward the bad stuff a slice at a time, and it's all too easily done, all too easy to self-justify. He doesn't start out psychiatrically iffy, but power corrupts and also warps, and there's no doubt that power can seriously unhinge people. But there's no inevitability about any of it: many, many people who undergo terrible trauma and nightmarish family lives don't end up being conniving killers, and sometimes, despite their best efforts, the most decent, responsible parents produce appalling brats. In the end, the only person responsible for what we do is ourselves.

Random House: Each of you is known for creating or enhancing a specific character: Allston-Wedge Antilles; Traviss-Boba Fett; Denning-Alema Rar. It must be a blast to be able to weave them all into Legacy's multi-book tapestry! Are they your favorite characters to write?

TD: I enjoy writing most characters. If I can get inside their heads and really understand what they want and what they're willing to do to get it, then I can connect with them on a subconscious level, and they just come alive inside my head. When that happens, whatever character I'm writing at the moment becomes my favorite.

AA: Wedge is my favorite character, true. I've said in other interviews that he interests me because he's an ethical killer. The killer part isn't that interesting-from that perspective, he's a guy who always has a means, a motive, and an opportunity. No, it's the ethics that are interesting, his struggle to make each choice to kill a correct one, one that will not lead those he commands or inspires down some slippery slope. Like the one Jacen is following, for example.

But I enjoy writing a lot of the characters, and I find it creepily easy to slip into Jacen's mindset when writing him. We're not so very different, he and I. Except he's better-looking and has superpowers and is even more evil.

KT: I love writing Boba, and expanding his hideously dysfunctional family and his total alienation from his own culture was right up my street. (And inevitable-I find it amazing that the man is even sane, given his upbringing.) He's incredibly complex, and that means there are plenty of stories to tell about him. But I enjoyed crazy Alema and Lumiya too-it was fascinating to write the scene with them together in Sacrifice, especially at how differently they handle disfigurement. I like the challenge of getting into characters I don't know all that well. I think the one I really savored writing was Admiral Niathal, though-no idea why, but when a "hawkish" Mon Cal admiral was mentioned in Aaron's outline for Betrayal, I was captivated by the idea and she just rolled out onto the page.

And, sick as it sounds, I enjoyed writing Jacen. I feel better knowing that all those years I spent working with politicians actually came in useful.

For the record I've already read a good bit of the old EU, I'm looking for what to read next in the current cannon lol
Thrawn and Xwing series are clearly amazing but the rest of the old eu..... well.......

Tarkin is good.

A New Dawn is good.

Lost Stars is good, but still in the middle of it.

Heir to the Jedi is bad. Avoid it.

Aftermath has mixed reviews. I listened to the audio book,which I think helps. It was OK. It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible.

No idea on the rest.

I liked Heir to the Jedi. Likeable supporting cast, and it's interesting to see a first-person take on Luke. Plenty of funny moments in the story itself, even if the ending could have been better.

Dark Disciple seems to be the most dubious of the new books - their versions of Ventress & Vos are little like either TCW, or the EU versions - and the Jedi Council's characterisation seems over-ruthless - especially Mace.

I liked Heir to the Jedi. Likeable supporting cast, and it's interesting to see a first-person take on Luke. Plenty of funny moments in the story itself, even if the ending could have been better.

You are the first person I've seen that likes this book. I listened to the Jodo Cast and just couldn't even finish it after they bashed it so much. All the bad parts just stood out too much for me to enjoy it after it was pointed out to me.

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You are the first person I've seen that likes this book. I listened to the Jodo Cast and just couldn't even finish it after they bashed it so much. All the bad parts just stood out too much for me to enjoy it after it was pointed out to me.

I really enjoyed it too. The first chapter or two were pretty awful, but once it got going I really really liked it a lot.

Apparently this Bloodline book is going to fill in a lot of stuff during the 30 year gap between ROTJ and TFA. Looking forward to it.

Apparently this Bloodline book is going to fill in a lot of stuff during the 30 year gap between ROTJ and TFA. Looking forward to it.

Same I actually preordered it on my audible

Sorry for the double post but holy ---- Bloodline

It's the best of the new canon books thus far and in my opinion rivals even the Thrawn trilogy in what it brings to the universe

Definitely worth the read

I've heard a lot of good things about Claudia Gray. Definitely want to check out her other Star Wars book, Lost Stars.

Sorry for the double post but holy ---- Bloodline

It's the best of the new canon books thus far and in my opinion rivals even the Thrawn trilogy in what it brings to the universe

Definitely worth the read.

That sounds promising, I should order that immediatly!

There are some new books out now that I just noticed. One by Claudia Grey and I read that it really helps explain what the heck is going on between the First Order and the New Republic.

Lost Star is good from my son and I's perspective.

I liked Tarkin quite a bit. Not so much for the story itself, which has some weirdly aborted arcs it sometimes sees, and it has some uneven pacing. It did fill out a lot of the bigger picture of the galaxy as a whole though.

I'm about a quarter of the way through the audiobook of Aftermath and it is heavy going. Not just the narration, which I find too overly dramatic, but it comes across as a jumbled mess of story lines and characters.

And does he really have to give everything an exotic made up name? Jubjub bats and fluffbluff leaves. If you look at the appearances section of Wookieepedia, creatures and miscellanea...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aftermath#app_miscellanea