YMMV / Star Wars: The Living Force

• Evil Is Cool: Zilastra's Badass Normal and The Chessmaster moments, sense of daring, and fondness for tarot cards have won her a lot more interest than the average Star Wars EU Big Bad.
• Salvaged Story: Most previous installments of both Canon and Legends focus more on the Jedi Councilors as warriors than as the kinds of people who'd get appointed to the Council during peacetime, and the Jedi Council's seeming inability to help or empathize with average citizens has been frequently criticized. Here, most of the Councilors are humanized a lot, show more wisdom and humility, help solve Slice of Life problems in the Galaxy, and clearly care about the people they interact with.
• Spiritual Successor: The importance placed on how the Jedi can help ordinary citizens, the mundane problems some people face, and the prominence of of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and the presence of some Stupid Crooks and an Artful Dodger young criminal who all have redemption potential can make this book feel like a longer installment in the Jedi Apprentice or Jedi Quest series from Legends, perhaps even more so than Star Wars: Master and Apprentice does.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Future Imperial general Maximilian Veers gets A Minor Kidroduction, serving in a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits led by two future opponents of Palpatine and Vader (Mace Windu and Pell Baylo) but gets little importance or characterization, and his role could easily have been given to a Spear Carrier new character without changing a word of text beside the times his name is mentioned.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Despite the debate about whether the Councilors are able to connect with and meaningfully help people outside of the Order, and how Ki provides a couple with relationship advice in one scene, Ki's Star Wars: Republic status as a husband and father (who got an exemption from the no families rule due to the low birth rate on his homeworld) and connection to his home planet are never referenced here and remain in Schrödinger's Canon territory.