Before I decided to give up the EU altogether, I considered reading Survivor’s Quest, Allegiance, and Scoundrels first. Reading the Thrawn trilogy for the first time in 2008 reignited my interest in SW after the PT, NJO, and Legacy junk had quashed it; I figured it was fitting I also end with Zahn. But Allegiance failed to capture my interest after reading the first few chapters, and I heard over the grapevine that Survivor’s Quest was fairly liberal with prequel references, so I never bothered picking that one up. I haven’t touched a SW novel since.