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So this past afternoon I finished the last Legacy of the Force book. I am relieved to not have to worry that I won't get them all finished in time, but I am still very disappointed with how Troy Denning handled the installment. Even more disappointed than before, really.
Naturally the main focus needed to be on the showdown between Han and Leia's kids. But Boba Fett's storyline was important too. Troy didn't do one scene from Boba's or Mirta's or any Mandalorian's POV. He also didn't end things very satisfactorily for them.
Karen had Mirta finally coming to care about her grandfather Boba Fett, even though there were still problems between them. It was stretched out over the three books and was really moving. In Troy's book, Jacen Solo apparently manages to turn Mirta against him again in just a couple of days. And it's just left that way. She's shown speaking derogatorily about him to Jaina Solo and that's it. We don't get to see her talking to him about her new problem with him (thinking he deliberately sent her on a death mission) or how he tries to refute the idea. It definitely isn't true; he's shown throughout Karen's books to come to be genuinely concerned about her safety.
Also, it's just randomly thrown in there that Jacen Solo creates a nano thingie that he sprays into the atmosphere of their planet. It only affects them, as it was made specifically to target their family's DNA, and they won't ever be able to go home because of it. We don't see how they react to this, or what they're going to do, or anything. Just Jaina feeling sad thinking of Mirta not being able to go home.
Honestly, it was really, really lame. In Karen's books, she tried to give every major player some POV scenes. Troy clearly wanted nothing to do with the Mandalorian plotline and only put the barest minimum of stuff concerning it in there because he knew there had to be something.
I do consider the climatic fight between Jaina and Jacen to be part of my storyline canon, but I just don't think I can accept that book as a whole into my canon for that storyline. It doesn't fit Karen's books at all and is very unsatisfying for anyone who was following the Mandalorian plotline.
Naturally the main focus needed to be on the showdown between Han and Leia's kids. But Boba Fett's storyline was important too. Troy didn't do one scene from Boba's or Mirta's or any Mandalorian's POV. He also didn't end things very satisfactorily for them.
Karen had Mirta finally coming to care about her grandfather Boba Fett, even though there were still problems between them. It was stretched out over the three books and was really moving. In Troy's book, Jacen Solo apparently manages to turn Mirta against him again in just a couple of days. And it's just left that way. She's shown speaking derogatorily about him to Jaina Solo and that's it. We don't get to see her talking to him about her new problem with him (thinking he deliberately sent her on a death mission) or how he tries to refute the idea. It definitely isn't true; he's shown throughout Karen's books to come to be genuinely concerned about her safety.
Also, it's just randomly thrown in there that Jacen Solo creates a nano thingie that he sprays into the atmosphere of their planet. It only affects them, as it was made specifically to target their family's DNA, and they won't ever be able to go home because of it. We don't see how they react to this, or what they're going to do, or anything. Just Jaina feeling sad thinking of Mirta not being able to go home.
Honestly, it was really, really lame. In Karen's books, she tried to give every major player some POV scenes. Troy clearly wanted nothing to do with the Mandalorian plotline and only put the barest minimum of stuff concerning it in there because he knew there had to be something.
I do consider the climatic fight between Jaina and Jacen to be part of my storyline canon, but I just don't think I can accept that book as a whole into my canon for that storyline. It doesn't fit Karen's books at all and is very unsatisfying for anyone who was following the Mandalorian plotline.
