I’ve finally made it through the Battle of Endor. The Emperor is dead, the Rebels have won, huzzah! (Cue everyone who knows otherwise laughing hysterically.) Cue me also laughing hysterically because even though I’ve read through thousands of chronological years in the Expanded Universe, I’ve still only read 45 out of 130 books on my list. Send help. Please?
Tales of the Bounty Hunters
“Bounty Hunters. We don’t need that scum.” WELL SAID ADMIRAL PIETT.
Okay, okay, I jest. Mostly. This book is actually something that I would like to see more of in the Expanded Universe albeit with different characters and I’m thrilled we’ll be getting it with the digital novellas. It’s five stories of about 70 pages each and they are essentially character studies for each bounty hunter. If we could get these about members of Rogue and Wraith Squadron, I’ll be happy. (Have you figured out my preferred characters yet? If you have, you’ve probably also figured out my cunning plan to talk about my desire for more Rogue/Wraith short stories until Del Rey notices.)
The stories themselves are fine, I guess? None of them really thrilled me but then again, I don’t really care about most bounty hunter characters. I do, however, want to know if there are any other smugglers in the galaxy aside from Han Solo and Han Solo Light/Dash Rendar because the books I’ve been reading lately make it seem like there aren’t. But there really should be because I’m really not sure how Han had enough time to do all the things he’s supposedly done and tick off all the people he supposedly has.
I think my favorite of the stories was probably the one with Bossk although Zuckuss’s does get bonus points for using Toryn Farr. Boba Fett’s story amused me because it spends a solid couple of pages on Han Solo trying to figure out the best way to cause trouble and get thrown in jail for a few days because he’s bored. (Let’s have a moment of silence for all the previously canon material about him that got blasted to smithereens by Attack of the Clones though. Honestly, I’m more amused by how he was written here than anything else.) Nothing else about these really stands out to me though. Except that Dengar is just… sad. In multiple meanings of the word.