This is utterly brainless, and a total popcorn read, but it's still fairly enjoyable one you get past the terrible beginning. That beginning really made me think this was going to be a two star read - Han and Chewie go on shore leave and hire a fancy bus, essentially, to show off to a couple of girls, and there's an entirely-irrelevant-to-the-rest-of-the-plot bus-and-limo chase that goes on for an entire chapter. In a book this short, a chapter should not be wasted in this way, especially when the material in that chapter is stupid and boring. Thankfully, once they find themselves teaming up with an old friend to go in search of lost treasure, the plot picks up. It never gets very complex, and Daley's character work in these books is always painfully thin, but the pace is good and the setting interesting and there's a genuinely likeable supporting character who sort of inches about in larval form on his escape from academia, and I wish there'd been more of him. Still, I'm not entirely sorry this series is over. I didn't love the Thrawn books like a lot of fans seem to, but there's no doubting they were on another level of complexity and intelligence in comparison.