Akwat Kbrana said:
Tatooine Ghost [<-- Oh dear Lord, this one was awful; worst Star Wars book I've ever read]
Ah, Tatooine Ghost. I liked it when I originally read it, but that was back before I saw ROTS and came to hate the PT, so I probably wouldn't be able to stomach it today.
In retrospect, it probably could have been a decent if unnoteworthy yarn if it weren't for all those stupid connections with TPM & AOTC.
The Jedi Academy Trilogy are sort of in a category all their own. On the one hand, they are quite important insofar as the EU metanarrative is concerned. On the other hand, even though the overall storyline is pretty solid, they're remarkably poorly-written (though not as infuriatingly bad as the four afore-mentioned shite-biscuits). Maybe give them a try, but don't feel bad if you give up halfway through.
The trilogy's overall importance to the EU in general is the only reason I accept it as quasi-canon within my own SW Universe. But Lord, is there so much bullshit running through it, especially in the final two books, that to accept anything more than the bare-bones plot is completely unacceptable. The Imperials have the ability to create the Sun Crusher, an indestructible fighter-sized ship that is capable of destroying stars? Give me a break! If the Sun Crusher was some piece of advanced hardware built by an unknown alien civilization, though, that the Imperials just happened to find floating abandoned in the Maw? Now that can work.