Salvatore is a good author, especially his Forgetten Realms books. Vector Prime is not the strongest book, but I don't believe it is because of Salvatore. He was told what to write basically, and he did it. Spoiler: He gave Chewie a noble death, which in my book is a good thing Vector Prime, being the start of things, could have been a better book. But I think he left it up to the next authors to expand from his basis. It's hard being the first I also thought his Attack of the Clones novelization was better than the movie.