Horrible!
A few things to begin:1: I know this was the only SW novel in 78.2: How did this author win any SF award?So, I read through this book and by page 83 was convinced that Leia and Luke were two little children who constantly bickered and would lack the intellect not to get into a mud fight in the precarious situation they were in.THIS book is utterly unbelievable. I thought I was sitting in on a 1978 D&D; game!The writing is impossibly immature. Along with petty infighting and Leia's YOU KNOW WHO I AM lines (like that is going to scare big burly miners on an imperial controlled planet????) mixed with a few WORDY paragraphs and that just about sums up this novel.AVOID THIS NOVEL if this is your first venture into the expanded universe! Not all the SW novels are great ore even good, but the worst of the post 78 novels make this novel look like a bedtime story written by a child.