Status Updates From Tales of the Bounty Hunters...

I noticed this in the Mos Eisley Cantina compilation, and it's here too. There's something about short stories that seems to make author(s) more willing to include pointlessly cruel things. Like, here, a human is introduced and then literally pulled apart and killed by 5 droids like 3 paragraphs later. Is that really necessary? Does it add anything of value to the story? I say no.

I had been ready to read Shadows of the Empire next. But then I re-checked the list, and it turns out most of the stories in this compilation take place vaguely before Shadows. I had kind of forgotten about the rest of the Tales books... The Jabba's Palace one will be coming up soon as well.
This one has only 5 stories, so they're longer than the ones from Cantina. Not sure how I'll feel about that.