History YMMV / StarWarsAftermath

* HesJustHiding: An interlude strongly suggests that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac, but had to ditch his armor, which a new character named Cobb Vanth took. [[WordOfGod George Lucas]] did confirm that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac in the new continuity, so this shouldn't be too surprising. [[spoiler: The first episode of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' Season 2 confirms this, even directly following up on ''Aftermath'' and featuring Vanth onscreen.]]

* HesJustHiding: An interlude strongly suggests that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac, but had to ditch his armor, which another character took. [[WordOfGod George Lucas]] did confirm that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac in the new continuity, so this shouldn't be too surprising. [[spoiler: The first episode of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' Season 2 confirms this, even directly following up on ''Aftermath''.]]

* AssPull: Norra's survival after the TIE-fighter crash. She explicitly mentions that TIE-fighters don't have an ejector seat and her TIE is damaged in such a way she's stuck in a downward spiral, only having enough control to direct the ship towards the Imperials' transports in a SuicideAttack. However, while everyone is mourning Norra suddenly pops up, inexplicably unharmed save for some cuts and bruises. Her only explanation for her survival is that "It turns out TIE-fighters have an ejector seat after all." Besides coming across as sonething of a retcon, it's never explained how Norra was able to eject from the TIE in such a way she wasn't more seriously injured or killed, or that no one noticed her escape.

** Sinjir also has quite a fanbase, for being a slightly more nuanced take on an Imperial (or at least ex-Imperial) and cunning fighter; he's also liked for being one of the first prominent gay characters in the ''Star Wars'' EU.

** Sinjir also has quite a fanbase.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite the mixed reception of the book, many readers found [[RoboticPsychopath Mister Bones]] the most fun character in the story, on account of his gleeful brutality and defying the inherent patheticness of being a B1 battle droid, albeit a heavily modified one.

* EpilepticTrees: The identity of the Fleet Admiral; most lean towards him being the character who becomes Supreme Leader Snoke in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', others hold him to be the official introduction of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Thrawn]] in the new continuity.
** [[spoiler: And the Thrawn camp has been proven wrong with ''Aftermath: Life Debt'', which reveals the Fleet Admiral to be a new character named Gallius Rax. However... Thrawn ended up debuting in ''Rebels'' not too long after ''Life Debt'' was released.]]

** "A gross, mechanized chuckle erupts from his own ventilator, and both of his hands marry together into one hellacious megafist."

* HesJustHiding: An interlude strongly suggests that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac, but had to ditch his armor, which another character took. [[WordOfGod George Lucas]] did confirm that Boba Fett made it out of the Sarlaac in the new continuity, so this shouldn't be too surprising.

* HarsherInHindsight: Norra's attempts to keep Temmin away from living the same life she did become disturbingly prophetic after ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', where [[spoiler: Temmin dies during the Battle of Exegol just before his stepfather, Wedge, shows up with TheCavalry. Given that Norra's retired with Wedge during the events of ''[[Literature/StarWarsResistanceReborn Resistance Reborn]]'', she not only experienced her husband's death, [[OutlivingOnesOffspring she's outliving her own son]].]]

* BrokenBase: Either this book is a fulfilling opening to a new trilogy preluding ''The Force Awakens'' or a poorly-written, sloppy, inconsistent mess.

* LoveItOrHateIt: The novel as a whole, with particular points of contention being the writing style, dialogue, plotting and characters.

** [[spoiler: And the Thrawn camp has been proven wrong with ''Aftermath: Life Debt'', which reveals the Fleet Admiral to be a new character named Gallius Zax. However... Thrawn ended up debuting in ''Rebels'' not too long after ''Life Debt'' was released.]]

* BrokenBase: Either this book is a fulfilling opening to a new trilogy preluding The Force Awakens or a poorly-written, sloppy, inconsistent mess.

* BrokenBase: Either this book is a fufilling opening to a new trilogy preluding The Force Awakens or a poorly-written, sloppy, inconsistent mess.

** [[spoiler: And the Thrawn camp has been proven wrong with Aftermath: Life Debt, which reveals the fleet admiral to be a new character named Gallius Zax.]]

* {{Narm}} Some of the dialogue can sound like this, such as "I've been doing this since before you were in space diapers."

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite the mixed reception of the book, many readers found [[RoboticPsychopath Mister Bone]] the most fun character in the story, on account of his gleeful brutality and defying the inherent patheticness of being a B1 battle droid, albeit a heavily modified one.

* EpilepticTrees: The identity of the Fleet Admiral; most lean towards him being the character who becomes Supreme Leader Snoke in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', others hold him to be the official introduction of [[spoiler: Grand Admiral Thrawn]] in the new continuity.

* HesJustHiding: An interlude strongly suggests that Boba Fett made it out of the sarlaac, but had to ditch his armor, which another character took. [[WordOfGod George Lucas]] did confirm that Boba Fett made it out of the sarlaac in the new continuity, so this shouldn't be too surprising.