The Death of Chewbacca...

Damn!  I new that this was coming sometime within the New Jedi Order series, because, being the SW geek that I am, I listen to podcasts and read things online, but I had managed to avoid enough detail not to know that it happened in the very first book!  Chewbacca is dead!  I haven't even finished the book yet, so I don't even know how everything is going to play out, but wow.  I mean, I could see it coming at the beginning of the chapter in which it happened, but I kept thinking, "Nah, this is going to happen in the first book, surely?"  But I was wrong.  It seemed so abrupt.  

I've read some harsh opinions of this.  Some of them have more to do with how things play out afterwards then with the event itself.  I can' comment to that end, given that I've not yet finished the first book, but I found this to be a very powerful moment personally.  Sure, you hate to see a fan favorite go, but everything has to go eventually, right?  It's not as if we don't have all the past books and movies within which to relive our favorite Chewie moments.  

I find the rift that has opened between Han and Anakin particularly emotional, being a father myself, I can't imagine what that sort of thing must feel like.   But I think Salvatore takes a pretty good stab at it.

So, I look forward to the rest of this series.  I've heard review that down it for being too dark.  Good.  Just the way I like it!

Poemind.