If you are curious about how Palpatine became a Sith Lord and how the take over the galaxy plot got moving then you will probably enjoy this, but if what you hated about the prequels was all the blather about trade federations and senatorial actions then you will hate this too because this is full of that.The amazing thing about this book is that Luceno had to take a bunch of random bits of continuity not just from the movies, but from novels by other people, comic books, video games, and cartoons and weld it all into a coherent narrative and get the product approved by Lucasfilm.