Status Updates From Star Wars: Shadows of the E...

Fun times, but I'm a little disappointed. I liked it, but its flaws are much more apparent to me now that I'm older. Xizor's death is very anticlimactic. Vader gives him the 2 minute warning, and then Xizor vanishes from the story. No response, and he gets blown up. I wondered if Perry was given instructions to leave it vague in case they wanted to bring Xizor back later on, but no, this was his EU canon death.

The thermal detonator standoff is fraught for a couple of reasons. Anyone reading this book has surely already seen RotJ, so they know it's pretty much just a repeat of what Leia does in Jabba's palace. But in the context of the timeline chronology, it means that Leia did the exact same thing barely a few months after this event. It's dumb and lazy from both of those perspectives, lol.