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Is there anything more frustrating than getting to the end of a book that you stayed up late to read and having it culminate in a manner that is not just aggravating by the standards of in-universe continuity, but personally despicable?

(Yep, still reading Star Wars books. Striking the sequels off the to-read list until I forget how angry I am with this one, though. Possibly permanently, given that at one point I moseyed over to the author's website and then almost had an aneurysm when I saw some comments that she had made about fans/fandom/fic writers.)

(Like with fandom, there are some really, really good tie-in novels and really, really good authors who say smart, sensible, fannish things (honestly, I just want to buy John Jackson Miller a drink and say thank you for going out of his way to put in female and POC characters when he could easily have done otherwise and not raised an eyebrow, and saying, "Well, just because they weren't in the movies, doesn't mean they don't exist in the universe" and that's on top of actually having intelligent thoughts about the Star Wars universe), and then there are really, really bad tie-in novels, and then there are tie-in novels which are really good on one aspect and infuriating with all the others.)