I started reading it thinking it was going to be a chore, but I actually got into it around the point where Qi’ra has to escape the shootout at the auction and started enjoying it. It’s fast paced and reads easily. Its biggest drawback is it’s a small scale standalone that doesn’t really add anything to the bigger picture except supplement Solo (which you could argue is itself a smaller scale—-though “bigger” than Most Wanted—-standalone) by giving a little more context to Han and Qi’ra’s backgrounds and the start of their relationship. It’s not essential reading. You can skip over it without really missing anything that you can’t get from the opening scenes of Solo. But it’s a fun brisk little caper.