This book picks up during the events of Return of the Jedi where Boba Fett falls into the Sarlacc pit. We find out his fate pretty quickly and how he survives while also going back in time to find out what led Fett to those events and into the employ of Jabba the Hut. 

For how action packed and fast the plot was, all this book was is set up for the rest of the series. Most of the “why” is still a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that this book wasn’t excellent. I loved every moment of it even if it did have a few flaws. 

My only two complaints were that the author used the word “barve” way too many times. Every character was referred to as a barve at least once and I wished that there had been other ways of describing a character. Otherwise, the only other thing to mention is that the chapters were way too long. This is an almost 400 page book with only 21 chapters and when you get to the middle of the book, some of the chapters are 50 pages long and go into quite a bit of detail about what the characters are doing or where they are. I personally prefer smaller chapters so maybe this critique may come as nitpicking to some, but personally some of the chapters could cut some of the descriptions or be cut up into multiple chapters.