personally, I love Karen Traviss' work- I don't see why everyone hates the series. The fact that it was a 'romance' series never really stood out to me, there's only a few smaller tidbits here and there. I was dissapointed when I heard she was stepping down from Star Wars (stupid Clone Wars), leaving many books unauthored. From what I hear, a second Imp novel is strill in the works- though by someone else- and will be released sometime in 2012. But, as Mr Mandolorian said, she did make Star wars a little more 'real.' I mean- not a lot of these novel talk about the civvies, mainly just the Jedi waving their 'sabers around. Not very many novel talk about the clones or Mandos either, whom Traviss has greatly expanded. I just hope the new author finish the series isn't some shallow author who doesn't care about continuity or her charecters, and ends up killing them all.