My God, what a crappy book. I mean it's a Star Wars novel so it's not like I was expecting Of Mice and Men, but jeez.

The characters were ridiculously flat, every single one of them. There's not a character in the book i cared about at the end. There's so little action it's immensely boring in places. The characters we all know barely (and only 3-4 of them) make an appearance in this. It read like "we need to tell a star wars story, but don't have the rights to the names, so you know have fun with that" except they totally do have the rights and totally could have come up with a story that was even kinda good, but they didn't and this book sold like crazy because we're suckers and "STAR WARS!!!" :|

If it hadn't taken me so long to get to reading it, I would have tried to return it.

I started reading and put the book down, it was that bad. i came back to finish it for two reasons;
1. so I could honesty review it
2. in the hopes it got magically better, it didn't

There's some foreshadowing for future books (I assume that's the intent), but even that isn't that interesting and when I finally finished, i wasn't at all anxious to read the next part of the story. I honestly couldn't care less about even one of the characters in this story and certainly have no interest in what happens to them next.