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A review by octavia_cade
The Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley
2.0
I read and reviewed the three novels collected here separately, so this is basically just for my own records. The rating is an average of the individual ratings: I gave the first book in the series, Han Solo at Stars' End, one star, while the others earned two stars each.
Basically, they're popcorn reads. Action adventure that bounces along and requires absolutely nothing from the reader by way of intelligent input. Look, I'm not knocking it, sometimes you just want escapism and there's nothing wrong with that. I do think that Daley can push his action sequences to lengths so ridiculous they become both boring and eyeroll-worthy (blasting a tower into space in volume one, or the enormously tedious bus-and-limo chase of volume three), but when he's not trying to splatter special effects all over the page, and concentrates instead on plot, these books become basically readable.
Basically, they're popcorn reads. Action adventure that bounces along and requires absolutely nothing from the reader by way of intelligent input. Look, I'm not knocking it, sometimes you just want escapism and there's nothing wrong with that. I do think that Daley can push his action sequences to lengths so ridiculous they become both boring and eyeroll-worthy (blasting a tower into space in volume one, or the enormously tedious bus-and-limo chase of volume three), but when he's not trying to splatter special effects all over the page, and concentrates instead on plot, these books become basically readable.