YMMV / Star Wars: Lost Stars

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is Nash Windrider a Stalker with a Crush faux-Nice Guy who has severe entitlement issues and Black-and-White Insanity or is he a similar man struggling to reconcile his code of honor with a monstrous crime? Or is he someone who has been horrifically traumatized and is in genuine need of medical help?
  • Is Ciena Ree actually a My Country, Right or Wrong Token Good Teammate for the Empire or is she simply suffering Black-and-White Insanity of her own? After all, her rationalizations after her mother's incarceration make about as much sense as Nash's.
• Narm: The final back-and-forth fight between Thane and Ciena is a bit silly when you consider that Thane, a large, healthy soldier in the prime of his life, is struggling against Ciena, who just got off of months of intense medical leave and was frequently noted to be corpse-like and emaciated. This might be why the full fight was cut from the manga, though even there she manages to land in a couple of hard kicks before Thane simply grapples and stuns her.
• The Woobie: The more the novel goes on the bigger a woobie Ciena becomes as she slowly realizes she picked the wrong side in the Galactic Civil War and it's too late to back out.