Folks, this is the best Star Wars pilot book that exists, period. End of story. It's so good. The plot is tight without feeling like it moves too fast, all the characters are so nuanced and frankly wildly well-developed, and the FLYING. Honestly even as a person who enjoyed the Rogue Squadron series, I find flying sequences kind of hard to read, but this has the BEST PILOTING SEQUENCE IN ANY PIECE OF STAR WARS MEDIA THAT HAS EVER EXISTED, HANDS DOWN. I'm sorry for the caps lock but it's true. Seriously, this might be my favorite new canon book I've read so far; it's so, so good and I can't wait for this story to continue.