I'm so glad Claudia Gray is writing for the new Star Wars canon. It did take me a part of the book to wrap my head around my memories of the now "non-canon Leia" and this new version, but I'm very pleased. I also enjoyed the secondary characters and Leia's foil, the Centrist senator Ransolm Casterfo, who was just as "correct" in his political views some ways as Leia was in her's.

My only sadness so far with the new canon is the utter lack of lightsabers thus far. I understand WHY, but I am ever hopeful Episode VIII will be cock full of my favorite weapon.
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Ben is still Ben, not Kylo Ren! This book is only five years prior to The Force Awakens, so he hasn't turned yet and is off on some sort of elusive quest with Luke. I WANT MORE. We get a little more of Han, and he and Leia are also still married, and reasonably happy. So, still no clues as to how all hell apparently broke loose.