[GuardianAngel87]

I finally finished Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End just now and I can officially say, "Thank God that I'm finally done with this trilogy!" since the final book completely sucked. I apologize in advance for basically taking forever for getting through this one so I can then get my thoughts on the book posted and I'm not sure that setting up my own Halloween marathon throughout last month and the last two weeks of September in between reading it is completely at fault. To me, a lot of the novel is just so boring. The story and character writing is completely lackluster. The dialogue is very cringe-worthy to the point that I might be losing my IQ points as the book was going on and the writing style is still so bad, it gets to the point that it could hurt your eyes if you stare at it for too long. The only thing in it that comes even remotely interesting is the subplot with Rae Sloane and Brentin Wexley and even that didn't really amount to anything. I'm seriously glad that I read Inferno Squad before this since I don't think I'm strong enough to read two Chuck Wendig-penned Star Wars novels back-to-back and there's no way no hell I'm reading those nor the first book again if (and that's a very big if) I were to one day go back and reread the Disney canon SW novels all over again. You're honestly better off just reading their entries on Wookiepedia. All in all, I really don't recommend these books like at all and not just in Star Wars literature overall but also in the Disney canon that they are in. If you really want to read a trilogy of SW books that take place after the events of Return of the Jedi, I highly recommend The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Sure, it's not considered canon according to Disney/Lucasfilm but that shouldn't be a be-all end-all factor for good stories within the Star Wars universe. Not to mention that those books actually involve the main cast of the original trilogy which are the characters we actually care about. Next, it's onward to yet another Disney canon post-ROTJ novel with Phasma and it seems that I won't be closing off my reading marathon of current canon SW novels after all since after that, I will be reading the 40th anniversary anthology novel, From A Certain Point Of View.