Aftermath

The first thing that struck me as really odd about this book was the third person-present tense narrative style that Wendig uses. I found it jarring and off-putting. He also presents "interludes" between chapters, little vignettes that usually have no added story value to the main narrative. It is in one of these interludes that we get a glimpse of Han and Chewie getting news that Kashyyk is ready to be liberated from crumbling Imperial control, setting up one of the plot threads for the second book in the series, Life Debt. I appreciate the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters in the Star Wars universe, and want to see more of it, but I didn't feel as if I had any connection to the characters by the end of the book.

After reading the next two installments of this trilogy, I did think that they were both better than this first entry.