Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I included a picture of my Star Wars Novel collection as a "character reference" I am not going to rant on the fact that Lucas Arts was able to manage all the Star Wars Books, Comics, Games & Movies without them contradicting each other and the mighty Disney found that task to daunting. I just want to point out a few things. Star Wars authors have ranged from excellent (Timothy Zahn) to mediocre (Barbara Hambly). Chuck Wendig would be on the lower end of the spectrum. This book reads like a self published eBook by an aspiring author writing in their part time. The story is poorly developed, it is impossible to figure out who the protagonist is, it rambles around befor never really getting to a point, and it's generally not fun to read. Star Wars is about the charectors more than the force or battles. These charectors are not developed, probably because there are way to many, and they are not endearing in anyway. When people come to me and ask me about it. I say to read the wookiepedia article and only get the book if you are a collector, and then wait until you can pick it up at a garage sale. The Rebels (New Republic) are not killers / torturers. This book portrayed them as not caring about bystanders dying (think Superman) and purfictly willing to torture the enemy to get information. This brings me to the main complaint. Keep your political agenda out of my Star Wars. And yes as a fan it is mine, and if you are a fan it is yours, the goal is to get our money so it is about what we want not some desire to push an agenda artisticly. Three separate refrences to homosexual characters, in an entire galaxy where none has never been mentioned - transparent attempt to push a political agenda. This is not just a right wing vs. left wing thing. The same would be true if it was an extreme conservative philosophy being shoved down the throat of the reader. This is the most glaring example of putting our galaxy into that one. In an early Expanded Universe book Lando introduced Luke to Hot Chocolate and it stood out so much as wrong that authors learned not to do that. Mr. Wendig did not get the message. Use Star Wars lingo: Gundarts, Mynocks, nerf... Conclusion: because I refuse to go back and read Children of the Jedi, Planet of Twilight or The Crystal Star I can not tell you if it is worse than all 3 or slightly better than Children and Twilight. Aftermath is definitely a low point for Star Wars novels, lets hope that this is not what we are going to get from Disney on a constant basis.