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That book was ass. Xizor is an extremely shallow make power fantasy, and the book almost reads like the author describing his personal sexual fantasies. Like 1/3 of this guy's plot relevant scenes are spent being horny for Leia, and he had a super sexy robot pleasure assassin. Leia resisting the seduction pheromones was an extremely awkward scene. Meanwhile, Dash Rendar is a very shallow "scoundrel" trope almost literally described as "we have Han Solo at home." The best part of it was probably the Darth Vader bits, which had some standard (but perhaps unique for the time?) Sith warrior shenanigans. Also the plan to blow the whole castle at the end was straight out of a video game plot (probably literally in this case).

I started reading the first Darth Bane afterward, and it is a literary masterpiece by comparison. I don't regret reading Shadows, but mostly because I enjoy bad media.