Dark Force Rising
I'm already half way through the third novel in the Thrawn Trilogy and didn't yet post my review of the second. Man, I'm falling down on the job.
No spoilers.
As was expected, great stuff. Very pleased with the thorough, adult nature in which Zahn handles Star Wars. My thoughts from the first novel still apply;
No cutesy bullshit, no droid antics, no children's comedy. A serious science fiction story continuing in the vein of the first two films, but with much deeper character development. Mara was particularly well written.
That goes doubly so for Mara. Possibly even more of a focus on her in this novel and that's just fine with me. She's fantastically written and the character development through the course of the first two novels should be the paradigm on how to handle character development and depth.
Loved the story of the lost Katana fleet! Again, sorry these were never made into non-Lucas-involved films. They read like screenplays.
Digging Last Command as well.