2018 reading challenge: best seller from the year you graduated High School

Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Not only was this a bestseller the year I graduated High School, it was #1 on the NYT bestseller list for fiction the week I graduated.Over 20 years ago, one of my roommates had a good amount of the EU books and I spent many an evening curled up with one of them and this book is why. Timothy Zahn's writings still holds up and I smiled throughout as a visited what felt like an old friend and was reminded how much I thought the character of Grand Admiral Thrawn was a wonderfully delicious antagonist. Now, 2 decades later, I still think it.

This time, rather than reading it, I listened to it and the telling was just as good, if not better. The voice actor reading it does amazing work bringing extablished characters to life and if I did not know better, I would have sworn they got Billy Dee William, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford in to do the voices.

I enjoyed returning to this book and may just have to go find more of the EU to visit again.



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