Han and Leia have kids. They're studying at Luke's Academy. Chewbacca's nephew is also there, as is the daughter of those people from The Courtship Of Princess Leia. Expect many of Kevin J. Anderson's characters (Tionne, Kyp, Brakiss) to make an appearance as well. Basically X-Men with lightsabers.This work provides us with examples of:
An Aesop: One in every book, about drugs, racism, class, etc.
Broken Aesop / Aesop Amnesia: "Lighstabers" contains an egregious example. In the story Tenel Ka loses her arm in a lightsaber training accident as a result of being too proud of her own abilities and not putting enough care into constructing her lightsaber. Afterwards, she feels ashamed that she let her pride cloud her judgement. Good lesson. However, what does she do afterwards, not only in the same book but only several hours later? Refuses to wear a synthetic arm replacement. Why? Because she's too proud and has confidence in her abilities.
Author Appeal: Lusa, the perpetually topless centaur girl.
Also Tenel Ka, with her repeatedly-described "hard muscles".
Another oddly recurring theme is that of people being messily devoured by one thing or another, including wolf-men, carnivorous seaweed and giant flowers. Kevin J. Anderson is a bit of a Vore fetishist, it would seem.
Big Bad: Each of the three main plot arcs has one - the false Emperor in the "Shadow Academy" arc, Nolaa Tarkona in the "Diversity Alliance" arc, and Czethros in the "Black Sun" arc.
Catch Phrase: Ah, ah-hah, only every single kid character. From Jaina's grating "Well, what are we waiting for?" to Jacen's "Want to hear a joke?" to Tenel Ka's trademark "This is a fact."
Character Development: All of the young Jedi progress through the series, changing and growing.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Averted with Qorl, who though equipped with a nasty-looking (and powerful) cybernetic arm to replace the badly -mangled original appendage is inarguably the most level-headed and moral of Brakiss's group.
Doomed Home Town: A very odd example in the case of Zekk: everything built on the surface of his homeworld, Ennth, is destroyed in a regular, seven-year cycle by the planet's moon's eliptical orbit bringing it into the planet's atmosphere and touching off seismic cataclysms that last for an entire year, after which the inhabitants return from their space station refuges and rebuild everything from scratch.
Five-Man Band: Jacen, Jaina, M-TD, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca.
Foot Focus: In Return to Ord Mantell, there's a brief description of Jaina taking off her boots and dipping her feet into a muddy pond.
Freudian Excuse: Among other reasons, Nolaa Tarkona has this behind her desire for slaughter and conquest of the human race—in revenge for the death of her half-sister Oola.
G-Rated Drug: Anja Gallandro's addiction to Andris spice.
Heel Face Turn: Luke attempts to make Brakiss do one but fails.
No Endor Holocaust: In "Heirs of the Force" Qorl mentions that the explosion of the first Death Star must have started dozens of forest fires on Yavin 4.
Old Soldier: Qorl. Overlaps with Shell Shocked Senior and Crazy Survivalist as he's the lone surviving TIE Fighter pilot from the Battle of Yavin who's spent the last twenty or so years hiding out in the Yavin jungle waiting for the Empire to retrieve him.
Also Qorl being the crashed TIE Fighter pilot that Luke fought on the Yavin moon in the Marvel comics' Day After the Death Star, and the "Boba Fett" who appears in Shards of Alderaan being Ailyn Vel impersonating the bounty hunter.
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