The Icarus Hunt

A solid sci-fi adventure story. Zahn has a fun and lighthearted style that helped the book breeze past, but still a bit too long that it needed to be. Would have worked better 100 pages lighter maybe. But a fun and interesting cast of characters!

This story mixes a bit of space smugglers (picture Han Solo) with a bit of Sherlock Holmes mystery and deduction.

gave up after 120 pages (a quarter), because it felt like reading cartoons: fast and full of shiny colors, but completely shallow and uninteresting. Just a too cool glitzy hero kicking alien ass with amazing wit and bravado.
Might have enjoyed it at 12-13 yo.

Zahn is a great Sci Fi writer!