Star Wars – Fate of the Jedi: Backlash
by Aaron Allston (Ballantine, 2010)
Aaron Allston was always one of the more competent Star Wars novelists, and makes a fair job of balancing action adventure and political intrigue (albeit sometimes in skittishly small sections) forty-plus years after A New Hope. Han, Leia and Luke all feature.
Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi
by Kevin Hearne (Del Rey, 2015)
Disney presents a first-person narrative by a distinctly uninteresting Luke Skywalker in his wide-eyed Jedi novice days, wandering through a plot less gripping than old velcro. Sad to say, this feels amateurish. (Did Mark Hamill narrate the audiobook? That would be fitting.)