2017 Reading challenge: (advanced list) book bought at a used book store

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Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


to be honest, it's more of a 2.5.

Taking place before "A New Hope" Han and Chewie have found themselves in need of a job and take the first one that comes along, not bothering to ask too many details. It's only after taking on the cargo that they learn it's the one thing they won't do... transport slaves.

They take matters into their own hands and find themselves still being owed LOTS of needed money, so they go seeking the ones who arranged the deal in the first place. Causing them some rather uncomfortable entanglements with the regional Powers-That-Be.

This is the 2nd book in a trilogy. I did not know that when I picked up the book, and frankly you don't need to have read the first one to read this one. I had issues. It was slow to start and I found myself constantly going "that's not how Han would react" or "what kind of description is that for Chewbacca's language?" I found myself having to constantly remind myself that this book was written between the release of "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back" and here I am, almost 30 years after the book was written upset that it was not following cannon or even established fandom that hadn't come yet, so the character issues I had were all my own and once I managed to remind myself that was the case, the characterizations were tolerable.



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