Chaos Rising

I'm honestly getting a bit tired of reading about Thrawn. There's only so many times you can read about how smart and tactical he is before it becomes not so impressive anymore. At this point I'm just way more interested in what Thrawn is up to right now, and I honestly think he'd work much better as a side character.

Granted, this book does do a few new things with him (how he was more compassionate compared to now), but as with the previous trilogy - the standouts for me were the side characters. In the previous books that was Eli Vanto, this time it was Ar'alani.

I liked the Memories, and I liked certain parts of it, but I'm not sure this is interesting or juicy enough for an entire new series? It was enjoyable, sure, but it doesn't really justify its existence. Unless you are really interested in the Chiss and politics, though I found even the latter to be a bit shallow here.