I am sloooooooowly dragging myself through Jedi Trial which I started two weeks ago and am only about a quarter of the way through. It started off ok, with a tense situation on a small but strategically important planet (as all these EU Prequel novels do), and a potentially interesting female character, the unfortunately named Odie. She's a tough, resourceful soldier at first but then suddenly a hot fighter jock appears and she turns into entirely different person, bursting into tears and falling into the guy's arms even though they just met and are in the middle of a freakin' battle. This is the stereotypical argument against women in combat embodied in a poorly written pulp novel. Furthermore, the villian, Pors Tonith, and the anti-hero, Zozridor Slayke, are cartoonish to the point of parody.

Anakin is supposed to get back into the story at some point (he's on the cover, though that's never a good indicator of what a Star Wars novel is about), along with Corran Horn's father. We're due for some Anakin-as-the-legendary-warrior action, and I hope it picks up soon because I also have to get through Yoda - Dark Rendezvous before my hold copy of Labyrinth of Evil becomes available at the library.