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Luke is far too wise for the point in the timeline this is set at. The Jedi Academy trilogy is still a few years off. Luke barely knows shit, yet Wolverton has him act like he's already a proficient Jedi.
Hell, even Threepio barely seems like the actual character. How do you fuck that up?! Easiest character to write, and yet he still can't get it right. God damn, this book sucks way more ass than I remembered.

Han overhears a group of people talking in a cantina. First they comment on how scruffy he looks, then start gushing over Isolder. This is ridiculous nonsense. One guy says that street vendors 'down on Corsucant' are selling Isolder posters, but they are on Coruscant. You wouldn't say 'down on' about the planet you are currently on. Wonder if he originally had that scene set elsewhere, then forgot to rewrite that.

God damn, I don't remember this book sucking THIS much. It's so bad thus far. Both Han and Leia are acting nothing like their actual selves. Leia falling so quickly for Isolder and just brushing Han to the side kind of shows that Wolverton must have had a fairly low opinion on women...
Speaking of Wolverton, he died ~4 years ago. Second SW author I've read in a row that has died early. Weird coincidence

I always kind of knew this, but it's never really struck me fully until now how... "interesting" the concept of Hapes/the Hapan people are. It's basically just whitewashed Japan in space. Obviously the Hapan - Japan connection is blatant. Their ships are called Battle Dragons. They are a cluster of planets (like the archipelago). They were isolationist. But they are very white-coded, often having red or blonde hair.

If Vader had hunted down this Jedi Master and killed him, there's no fucking way he would've just left the Master's lightsaber laying around. I know this was written in 94, so it predates Order 66 by 11 years. But taking (or at least destroying) lightsabers of the Jedi you are killing is just common fucking sense.

Solo Command leads directly into this novel - it even says so at the end of it. I've only read this book once before. I put it off for a very long time (I would see it on shelves quite often). I knew it was important, because it's about Han and Leia getting married. But I just wasn't interested in it. I remember not really liking it when I did finally read it - bit of a slog. Let's see what I think now.