xhonzi said:

I think/hope you'll enjoy Zahn's EU.

So far, I'm digging it. Some of that may be the real life passage of time as I catch up with my heroes all these years later.

It's the very same reason I really like the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Indy isn't the same 40-year-old rogue we met in Raiders - and I'm not the same 18-year-old high school kid I was back then.

In Heir, Luke isn't the same innocent farm boy he was in 1977 - and I'm not the innocent 15-year-old kid I was back then.

I particularly enjoyed the chapter where Luke is up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, sitting outside looking out at the city, and pondering the journey & the future. Something that I do regularly myself. That chapter set the hook for me.

Just like Indy in Kingdom, Luke is taxed with a much heavier life at this point in the story. Because the very same thing is true for me in the real world, the story connects with me on a level that it can't for young people. You can't guess the passage of time, nor can you pretend it. In fact, you can't even really imagine it properly. You have to actually pass through it to feel it.

Zahn's style comes across as much deeper and more serious. Which is what I was looking for.