A pretty basic novelisation. Maybe it'll come to light as I read further into the series, but I wish the fact that Yoda is quite happy to let Leia wander the galaxy with no training would be addressed. I mean, you've got two kids - just two! - with an enormous Force heritage, and when one's in danger Yoda does his best to dissuade Luke from going to help her. Alright, I can get that he doesn't want both eggs in one basket, but Luke goes anyway, towards the potential smashing of both eggs, and Yoda comments to Ghost Ben that he's not the last hope, and there is another (Leia). Which Ben should already know, and who the two of them should be doing something to preserve instead of this weird dance of sacrifice-your-friends-for-the-greater-good-even-if-one-of-them-is-the-spare-we-need-if-you-go-wrong. I mean, in A New Hope Kenobi sees Leia in trouble and runs to help, but Yoda? Eh. And I love Yoda, but as a strategist he kind of sucks. And yes, I know that a lot of this is complaint in retrospect, but Lucas had the oversight of this book, one presumes, and he could have laid down clues but didn't.

Also, it's kind of off-putting how sleazy Han Solo comes across without Harrison Ford's charm to leaven the already dodgy banter. (And how much more tolerable Luke is when I don't have to look at his haircut.) So, again: eh. The film is a classic. The novelisation is not.