I finished reading Legacy of the Force 1: Betrayal by Aaron Alston. It was pretty good. While I can't wait to read the next one I'm also not really looking forward to it because it's a Karen Traviss book. I am a little surprised at how old everyone is, though. Jacen and Jaina are, like, if not 30 then really close to it. I enjoyed seeing Wedge and everyone. <3 Wedge. Han seemed different, though. It was like they were trying too hard to make him a certain way. Also, it's always hard for me when comic book characters wind up in the books. There was a decent backstory attached but I only vaguely knew who they meant.
After that I started Her Last Whisper, by Karen Robards. It's basically about a woman who can see ghosts and she falls in love with one. Ok, that's fine. I can do ghost love. But this book is apparently the 3rd in a 4-part series. I got about 60-some pages in and started to become disgusted with it. So this woman is in love with a ghost, but there's also a living man she's going out with. Whom she fondly remembers kissing. Whom she said, in her mind, that she would have already slept with him several times over by now if it weren't for the ghost lurking over her shoulder. Uhm. So do you love the ghost or do you love this other guy? Make up your mind, otherwise you're just cheating on one or the other. I would understand choosing the man who's alive since, you know, dead guys can't really do much except talk with you. But keeping him attached to you would be hell for him, always seeing her with this other guy, so it would be better to let him go. Whatever, I skimmed reviews on amazon of the 4th book to see how it all wraps up. After seeing review after review of people happily saying what a wonderful ending the books got I finally found a review that gave spoilers. And the ending is pretty lame. Course I don't know, maybe if I got the other books and read them start to finish I might become invested in this couple and be happy with the ending too. Spoilers ahead, if you don't want to know how the series ends don't read on.
The author apparently has the ghost inhabit the body of another man and then he goes living life with the other man's body without any thought to whether it's morally right or not to sleep with someone using someone else's body. After which he gets pulled off into oblivion or whatever as punishment, and rightly so. But then the woman somehow travels back in time and alters events so that he never winds up being killed. She hands him her address and says to find her there, that she's from the future and he'd died and was haunting her and they were in love. As if any sane man would do anything other than toss the address and tell all his buddies about the crazy chick he ran into the other day. She gets to remember everything in the alternate world, he doesn't. I haven't actually read book 4 or this ending so I don't know if it ends there or if it ends with him showing up on her doorstep. I might see if the library has it just so I can read the ending for myself.
But as it stands now this book's going to the thrift store. I'm sure it's a good book. I'm sure it's a good series. But I don't feel like getting invested into a 4-book series with an ending I already don't really like. If it were a movie I'd watch it, cause I could throw 1 1/2 hours at it. But I don't want to put weeks into it.
