DuracellEnergizer said:

Saying "Screw the EU!!!!!! Hope it dies. FOREVER!" just because of one lousy book is silly. There are plenty of other works in the EU that do Han -- and the Han/Leia relationship in particular -- justice.

This story, for example

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A_Valentine_Story

is an excellent pre-TESB story which explores Han and Leia's developing feelings for one another (the art is awesome as well -- it really captures the spirit of the characters, and the colours are gorgeous).

Yes, I'm a bit anti-EU. The thing is that if you want to tell us about some events that for some reasons weren't present in the movies, then make another movie. I wasn't pleased when I learned of a multitude of spin-offs and the criteria is not were they good or not: this should be applied to the quality of the SW movies (not TV series) and - as I said in another thread about episode 7 - if a filmmaker makes a movie depicting events you can understand only by reading about Han and Lando adventures then it's a very weak filmmaking but excellent businessmaking. I prefer to imagine by myself some uncovered plots rather than having them watched and be disappointed. I say so because what I've read left exactly same bitter impression even if considered the best (Thrawn).

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A_Valentine_Story sounded promising and surely I'll throw eye on it to read in detail :) Thanks for posting it, though I thought that "the spark" between them flashed more earlier, closer to right after ANH :))) Interesting what happened at Ord Mantell and what Leia felt when that Bounty Hunter came to remind Solo about his debt... ;)