1. I think Madur's best hope is that none of the Empire remnants think it's worth passing through to either punish the population or extract whatever's left of the fancy metal. I was a bit surprised that someone managed to come up with a way of holding the moon's core together, although that may be because I've been watching Andor recently...
2. I liked Han's quote about Leia finding her own relationship with the Force. The way Leia was starting to really think about the Force and what she wants to do with the future make me sad that we didn't get the movie that was centered on Leia and the Force. I like that her instinctive talents are different to Luke's, and I wish we'd gotten an ending to the Star Wars trilogy that involved Rey and Leia reinventing a Force-using order from the first Jedi principles.
3. I'm honestly amazed that there wasn't a kitchen on the Falcon already. I mean, Lando owned the Falcon. You can't tell me that a man with his sense of taste and style isn't also an excellent and experimental cook. I can only guess that Han took the kitchen out to make a smuggling nook or something.
4. I do feel that this is one of those Star Wars books where I should've gone for the ebook rather than the audiobook. Curse you, relatively-new-book-pricing. I think that the book did a good job of showing how much things were in flux immediately after the Emperor's death, and how many different groups are all basically waiting to see what happens, and are unwilling to commit one way or another.
One of the things that this book really brought home to me is how quickly events have moved for Leia - and even moreso for Han. Maybe I'm old and cynical, but it felt like they rushed headlong into a marriage without working out first how to get along together with each other. I like the fact that they're starting to communicate in this book, but the book also felt like it was showing some of the seeds of where Han and Leia ended up at the start of the Force Awakens. That makes me a bit melancholy.
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2. I liked Han's quote about Leia finding her own relationship with the Force. The way Leia was starting to really think about the Force and what she wants to do with the future make me sad that we didn't get the movie that was centered on Leia and the Force. I like that her instinctive talents are different to Luke's, and I wish we'd gotten an ending to the Star Wars trilogy that involved Rey and Leia reinventing a Force-using order from the first Jedi principles.
3. I'm honestly amazed that there wasn't a kitchen on the Falcon already. I mean, Lando owned the Falcon. You can't tell me that a man with his sense of taste and style isn't also an excellent and experimental cook. I can only guess that Han took the kitchen out to make a smuggling nook or something.
4. I do feel that this is one of those Star Wars books where I should've gone for the ebook rather than the audiobook. Curse you, relatively-new-book-pricing. I think that the book did a good job of showing how much things were in flux immediately after the Emperor's death, and how many different groups are all basically waiting to see what happens, and are unwilling to commit one way or another.
One of the things that this book really brought home to me is how quickly events have moved for Leia - and even moreso for Han. Maybe I'm old and cynical, but it felt like they rushed headlong into a marriage without working out first how to get along together with each other. I like the fact that they're starting to communicate in this book, but the book also felt like it was showing some of the seeds of where Han and Leia ended up at the start of the Force Awakens. That makes me a bit melancholy.