Yeah, I like Thrawn, I like Mara Jade. I don’t like every single book the characters have ever made an appearance or been mentioned in, but the core books – the Thrawn Trilogy, the Hand of Thrawn Duology, that comic miniseries about Mara Jade released back in the '90s – yeah, I like them.
Now tell me how heretical a stance that is for an EU critic to hold to.