[GuardianAngel87]

I finally finished Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt last night and it's..................better than the first Aftermath novel (which is not a very hard thing to do) but even that is not saying much. I still don't care for the writing style but there were times I kind of gotten used to it, I'm sad to say. It honestly seems like just when this book took 2 steps forward in being a far better book than it really is, it took 3-5 steps back. I will give it credit for not having as many (unnecessary) interludes as the first book had and a few of them even actually connected to the main story and the dynamic and intrigue with Rae Sloane and Gallius Rax is very well-done and the novel did actually have most of the main cast of the original trilogy being involved this time, i.e. the characters of the Star Wars universe we actually give a damn about, which in turn, also helps us get into the franchise in the first place. Chuck Wendig's writing of them as well as the supporting characters of the films like Wedge, Admiral Ackbar, and especially Mon Mothma is a massive case of Your Mileage May Vary, though. I personally don't care much for it and the characters are far better-written elsewhere in the overall EU. While, technically speaking, the next current canon SW novel I should be reading is Aftermath: Empire's End and finally close out Chuck Wendig's overall trilogy, I am going to take a break from his writing style and his writing for a while before I get to it. So, up next, it's Battlefront II: Inferno Squad.