Status Updates From Star Wars: Empire and Rebel...

Decent. Definitely better and more interesting than Razor's Edge was. Scarlet Hark was rather annoying - I think the James SA Corey duo has a tendency to write annoying women characters. But she took a hard backseat once Leia entered the story proper, so it could've been worse.
For whatever reason, this ebook copy didn't have the ~30% of excerpts from other novels, so the story actually went to the end of the ebook.

A group of like ~8 snubfighters blew up a Star Destroyer. That's not really possible, especially how fast it happened. That's written by people who don't really know Star Wars. Luke blew up the Death Star because it had a specific, glaring flaw. Most ships don't have that. A group of snubfighters could disable a Star Destroyer, not outright destroy. But it would take more time than it did here, and with casualties.

Seeing as Baasen is supposed to be someone that Han has history with, they should've actually pulled an existing character. The shitty Solo trilogy by Crispin surely has at least one mentioned character that isn't used elsewhere. This book was the last one ever published, so they literally had the entirety of the EU to pull from. Making up some random new character is cheap.

When I said earlier that this felt vaguely similar to The Expanse, I meant in tone. But now the plot is about an ancient alien race that developed technology to control/prevent interstellar travel. That's literally the plot of The Expanse! One part of it, anyways.

The heist went much quicker than I expected, and they met back up with Chewie. But they went to another planet and left Chewie with the Falcon again. Come on! This planet is filled with aliens, there's literally no excuse now.
The Leia-centric novel had a decent amount of Han, but barely any Luke. Now the Han-centric novel is shaping up to have a decent amount of Leia, but still barely any Luke. Wonder why that is