I was interested in the premise, but the execution was seriously flawed.

When you write in first person from the perspective of a well-known character, it's absolutely VITAL to capture that character's "voice" (their vocabulary, mannerisms, etc.). This novel fails miserably. It intends to show Luke Skywalker between the destruction of the first Death Star and the Battle of Hoth, but the character we see in this novel isn't a cocky-kid-moisture-farmer-turned-hero; he's an insecure nerd with a knack for using big words in his internal monologue.

It certainly doesn't help that this entire story is a ship in a bottle: nothing in this novel adds to the overall mythos of the Star Wars universe.

I was ready to give up by chapter three, but plodded on in the hopes that it would improve. Sadly, it didn't.