Do any of these books have a plot point involving someone Leia trusts implicitly who turns out to have an evil alternative personality implanted by the Imperials? Because I have a very old memory of reading a Star Wars book with that in it -- the way I recall it, it was the first one I read after the Thrawn trilogy and I was so disappointed in it that I didn't read another Star Wars tie-in for years -- but I have no idea which one it was and I'm beginning to wonder if I got it confused with some other space series entirely.
Hambly's a technically skilled writer, and her Han and Leia actually get along (a sad rarity in Legends writing), but I've never felt any particular wish to seek out her origfic.
I don't think I've read any of Hambly's tie-in work, but I have read a bunch of her origfic, with mixed results. She's written a couple of things that have a good chance of appearing on a list of my favourite novels, depending on what day it is, and a few things that I've seriously regretted reading, and several stops in between. Since sovay mentioned it, I liked the first Benjamin January novel, but I haven't risked reading any more of those because my experience has been that the longer she sticks with a series the more likely it is to tip over into "seriously regretted reading"; the ones I count as favourites are all standalones or first-of-series-es. (Not that those are necessarily light reading either -- like, one of my favourite Hambly novels is a screwball romantic comedy with leads modelled on Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, but also one of my favourite Hambly novels is a murder mystery with a villain who earns the story nearly all of AO3's Major Warnings, and it's the same one.)
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Date: 2020-07-13 02:35 am (UTC)Hambly's a technically skilled writer, and her Han and Leia actually get along (a sad rarity in Legends writing), but I've never felt any particular wish to seek out her origfic.
I don't think I've read any of Hambly's tie-in work, but I have read a bunch of her origfic, with mixed results. She's written a couple of things that have a good chance of appearing on a list of my favourite novels, depending on what day it is, and a few things that I've seriously regretted reading, and several stops in between. Since sovay mentioned it, I liked the first Benjamin January novel, but I haven't risked reading any more of those because my experience has been that the longer she sticks with a series the more likely it is to tip over into "seriously regretted reading"; the ones I count as favourites are all standalones or first-of-series-es. (Not that those are necessarily light reading either -- like, one of my favourite Hambly novels is a screwball romantic comedy with leads modelled on Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, but also one of my favourite Hambly novels is a murder mystery with a villain who earns the story nearly all of AO3's Major Warnings, and it's the same one.)